Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date October 17
Competitors 36 from 19 nations
Winning time 4:20:13.6
Medalists
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1st Christoph Höhne  East Germany
2nd Antal Kiss  Hungary
3rd Larry Young  United States
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Athletics at the
1968 Summer Olympics
Athletics pictogram.svg
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
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
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was held on October 17.

Records

Prior to this event, the world and Olympic records stood as follows:

World record  Gennadiy Agapov (URS) 3:55:36 Almaty, Soviet Union October 17, 1965
Olympic record  Abdon Pamich (ITA) 4:11:12 Tokyo, Japan October 18, 1964

Result

Rank Athlete Nation Time
1st Christoph Höhne  East Germany 4:20:13.6
2nd Antal Kiss  Hungary 4:30:17.0
3rd Larry Young  United States 4:31:55.4
4 Peter Selzer  East Germany 4:33:09.8
5 Stig Lindberg  Sweden 4:34:05.0
6 Vittorio Visini  Italy 4:36:33.2
7 Bryan Eley  Great Britain 4:37:32.2
8 José Pedraza  Mexico 4:37:51.4
9 Karl-Heinz Merschenz  Canada 4:37:57.4
10 Goetz Klopfer  United States 4:39:13.8
11 Horst-Rüdiger Magnor  West Germany 4:39:43.2
12 Frank Clark  Australia 4:40:13.8
13 Örjan Andersson  Sweden 4:40:42.6
14 Gerhard Weidner  West Germany 4:43:26.2
15 Sergey Grigoryev  Soviet Union 4:44:39.2
16 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 4:44:45.2
17 Kazuo Saito  Japan 4:47:29.6
18 Shaun Lightman  Great Britain 4:52:20.0
19 Bob Gardiner  Australia 4:52:29.0
20 Erwin Stütz  Switzerland 4:53:33.8
21 Henri Delerue  France 4:57:40.2
22 Mieczysław Rutyna  Poland 4:58:03.8
23 Felix Cappella  Canada 4:58:31.6
24 Shaul Ladany  Israel 5:01:06.0
25 Pablo Colín  Mexico 5:01:30.0
26 Dave Romansky  United States 5:38:03.4
27 Ismael Hernández  Mexico 5:56:09.2
28 Ricardo Cruz  El Salvador 5:56:22.0
Bernhard Nermerich  West Germany DSQ
Abdon Pamich  Italy DNF
Burkhard Leuschke  East Germany DNF
Gennady Agapov  Soviet Union DNF
Ihor Della-Rossa  Soviet Union DNF
John Kelly  Ireland DNF
Paul Nihill  Great Britain DNF
Stefan Ingvarsson  Sweden DNF

References