Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place July 31. The final was won by Swede John Ljunggren.

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
John Ljunggren 1948
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	July 31 (final)
Competitors	23 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:41:52
Medalists
John Ljunggren  Sweden Gaston Godel  Switzerland Tebbs Lloyd Johnson  Great Britain

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing Olympic record was as follows.

Olympic record

Harold Whitlock (GBR)

4:30:41.4

Berlin, Germany

5 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 31 July 1948	13:15	Final

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:41:52
	Gaston Godel	Switzerland	4:48:17
	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:48:31
4	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:53:18
5	Herbert Martineau	Great Britain	4:53:58
6	Rune Bjurström	Sweden	4:56:43
7	Pierre Mazille	France	5:01:40
8	Claude Hubert	France	5:03:12
9	Enrique Villaplana	Spain	5:03:31
10	Tage Jönsson	Sweden	5:05:08
11	Henri Caron	France	5:08:15
12	Ernest Crosbie	United States	5:15:16
13	Sándor László	Hungary	5:16:30
14	Salvatore Cascino	Italy	5:20:03
15	John Deni	United States	5:28:33
16	Adolf Weinacker	United States	5:30:14
	Francesco Pretti	Italy		DNF
	Rex Whitlock	Great Britain		DNF
	Gerhard Winther	Norway		DNF
	Per Olav Baarnaas	Norway		DNF
	Sadhu Singh	India		DNF
	Sixto Ibánez	Argentina		DNF
	Valentino Bertolini	Italy		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish

Sources

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.