Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
	Paul Nihill, Abdon Pamich and Ingvar Pettersson
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	18 October
Competitors	39 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:11:12.4 OR
Medalists
	← 1960 1968 →

The men's 50 kilometres walk was the longer of the two men's race walking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, as well as the longest event on the program. It was held on 18 October 1964. 39 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 34 starting and 31 finishing.^[1]

Official Video Highlights @1:39:32 Video on YouTube

Results

12 walkers beat the old Olympic record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:11:12.4 OR
2	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	4:11:31.2
3	Ingvar Pettersson	Sweden	4:14:17.4
4	Burkhard Leuschke	United Team of Germany	4:15:26.8
5	Bob Gardiner	Australia	4:17:06.8
6	Christoph Höhne	United Team of Germany	4:17:41.6
7	Anatoly Vediakov	Soviet Union	4:19:55.8
8	Kurt Sakowski	United Team of Germany	4:20:31.0
9	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:20:37.2
10	Don Thompson	Great Britain	4:22:39.4
11	Ronald Crawford	Australia	4:24:19.6
12	Gennady Agapov	Soviet Union	4:24:34.0
13	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	4:25:49.2
14	Alex Oakley	Canada	4:27:24.6
15	Henri Delerue	France	4:27:47.6
16	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:29:09.2
17	Ted Allsopp	Australia	4:31:07.8
18	Eugeny Liungin	Soviet Union	4:32:01.6
19	István Havasi	Hungary	4:34:14.0
20	Alexander Bilek	Czechoslovakia	4:34:54.2
21	Christopher McCarthy	United States	4:35:41.6
22	Tadamasa Ejiri	Japan	4:37:31.8
23	Erwin Stütz	Switzerland	4:40:45.0
24	Malkolm Roy Syversson	Sweden	4:41:47.6
25	Kazuo Saito	Japan	4:43:01.0
26	Bruce MacDonald	United States	4:45:10.4
27	Sumio Miwa	Japan	4:52:00.6
28	Ilie Popa	Romania	4:57:40.8
29	Mike Brodie	United States	4:57:41.0
30	Chedli El Marghni	Tunisia	4:59:13.0
31	So Kam Tong	Hong Kong	5:07:53.2
—	Maung Rajan	Burma	Did not finish 1:48:39 at 20 km
	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	Disqualified 1:17:08 at 15 km
	Naceur Ben Messaoud	Tunisia	Disqualified 0:24:34 at 5 km
	Emil Dragan	Romania	Did not start
	Istvan Gori	Hungary	Did not start
	Kim Tai Koo	North Korea	Did not start
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	Did not start
	Pak Tai Keun	North Korea	Did not start