Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 21
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:28:07.8 OR
Medalists
	← 1948 1956 →

The Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on July 21 at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Italian athlete Giuseppe Dordoni earned the gold medal and set a new Olympic Record.^[1]

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy	4:28:07.8	OR
	Josef Doležal	Czechoslovakia	4:30:17.8
	Antal Róka	Hungary	4:31:27.2
4	Rex Whitlock	Great Britain	4:32:21.0
5	Sergey Lobastov	Soviet Union	4:32:34.2
6	Vladimir Ukhov	Soviet Union	4:32:51.6
7	Dumitru Paraschivescu	Romania	4:41:05.2
8	Ion Baboie	Romania	4:41:52.8
9	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:43:45.2
10	Giuseppe Kressevich	Italy	4:44:30.2
11	Harold Whitlock	Great Britain	4:45:12.6
12	Sándor László	Hungary	4:45:55.8
13	Rudi Lüttge	Germany	4:47:28.6
14	Pekka Viljanen	Finland	4:49:16.4
15	Donald Tunbridge	Great Britain	4:50:40.4
16	Raymond Lesage	France	4:52:37.8
17	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:52:48.4
18	Claude Hubert	France	4:55:28.2
19	Salvatore Cascino	Italy	4:56:46.0
20	Harry Kristensen	Denmark	4:57:35.8
21	Jean Strunc	France	4:59:08.2
22	Adolf Weinacker	United States	5:01:00.4
23	Pavel Kazankov	Soviet Union	5:02:37.8
24	Gilbert Marquis	Switzerland	5:02:56.2
25	Ferd Hayward	Canada	5:04:40.4
26	René Charrière	Switzerland	5:08:59.0
27	Gerhard Winther	Norway	5:11:40.2
28	Åke Söderlund	Sweden	5:30:56.6
	Guillermo Weller	Argentina	DNF
	John Deni	United States	DNF
	Leo Sjogren	United States	DNF