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

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates	July 21
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Medalists
Giuseppe Dordoni   Italy   Josef Doležal   Czechoslovakia   Antal Róka   Hungary

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
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 steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 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 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.

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 Baboe	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	Gilert 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

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.