Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
| Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |||||||
| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||
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| Dates | September 7 | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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| Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
The men's 50 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7. The event was held in a final only format.
Results
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Don Thompson |  Great Britain | 4:25:30.0 | OR |
 | John Ljunggren |  Sweden | 4:25:47.0 | |
 | Abdon Pamich |  Italy | 4:27:55.4 | |
| 4 | Aleksandr Shcherbina | .svg.png){kind=small} Soviet Union | 4:31:44.0 | |
| 5 | Thomas Misson | Great Britain | 4:33:03.0 | |
| 6 | Alex Oakley | .svg.png){kind=small} Canada | 4:33:08.6 | |
| 7 | Pino Dordoni | Italy | 4:33:27.2 | |
| 8 | Zora Singh |  India | 4:37:44.6 | |
| 9 | Anatoly Vedyakov | Soviet Union | 4:39:57.6 | |
| 10 | Antonio De Gaetano | Italy | 4:41:01.6 | |
| 11 | Ladislav Moc |  Czechoslovakia | 4:42:33.6 | |
| 12 | George Hazle | .svg.png){kind=small} South Africa | 4:43:18.8 | |
| 13 | Max Weber | .svg.png){kind=small} United Team of Germany | 4:44:47.0 | |
| 14 | Svätopluk Sýkora | Czechoslovakia | 4:46:14.6 | |
| 15 | Ajit Singh | India | 4: 47:28.4 | |
| 16 | Horst Astroth | United Team of Germany | 4:50:57.0 | |
| 17 | Josef Doležal | Czechoslovakia | 4:51:18.6 | |
| 18 | José Ribas | .svg.png){kind=small} Spain | 4:51:20.0 | |
| 19 | Ron Laird |  United States | 4:53:21.6 | |
| 20 | Frank O'Reilly |  Ireland | 4:54:40.0 | |
| 21 | Charles Sowa |  Luxembourg | 4:57:00.4 | |
| 22 | Louis Marquis |  Switzerland | 5:00:13.0 | |
| 23 | Bruce MacDonald | United States | 5:00:47.6 | |
| 24 | John Allen | United States | 5:03:15.2 | |
| 25 | Alfred Leiser | Switzerland | 5:06:55.0 | |
| 26 | Mohamed Ben Lazhar |  Tunisia | 5:07:57.4 | |
| 27 | René Charrière | Switzerland | 5:09:00.8 | |
| 28 | Jacques Arnoux |  France | 5:10:22.0 | |
| - | Albert Johnson | Great Britain | DQ | |
| - | Grigory Klimov | Soviet Union | DQ | |
| - | Guillermo Weller |  Argentina | DQ | |
| - | Kurt Sakowski | United Team of Germany | DQ | |
| - | Noel Freeman |  Australia | DQ | |
| - | Ronald Crawford | Australia | DQ | |
| - | Erik Söderlund | Sweden | DNF | |
| - | Åke Söderlund | Sweden | DNF | |
| - | Norman Read |  New Zealand | DNF | |
| - | Naoui Zlassi | Tunisia | DNF | |
| - | Béla Dinesz |  Hungary | DNF | |
Key: OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
References
- 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 kilometre walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-10.
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