Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 3 (final)
Competitors	15 from 10 nations
Medalists
Tommy Green Great Britain   Jānis Daliņš Latvia   Ugo Frigerio Italy

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games took place August 3. The final was won by Tommy Green of Great Britain.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Tommy Green	Great Britain	4:50:10	OR
	Jānis Daliņš	Latvia	4:57:20
	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	4:59:06
4	Karl Hähnel	Germany	5:06:06
5	Ettore Rivolta	Italy	5:07:39
6	Paul Sievert	Germany	5:16:41
7	Henri Quintric	France	5:27:25
8	Ernie Crosbie	United States	5:28:02
9	Bill Chisholm	United States	5:51:00
10	Alfred Maasik	Estonia	6:19:00
	Henry Cieman	Canada		DNF
	John Moralis	Greece		DNF
	Francesco Pretti	Italy		DNF
	Arthur Tell Schwab	Switzerland		DNF
	Harry Hinkel	United States		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 kilometre walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-29.