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

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
Medalists
Abdon Pamich   Italy   Paul Nihill   Great Britain   Ingvar Pettersson   Sweden

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Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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 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.

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	Germany	4:15:26.8
5	Bob Gardiner	Australia	4:17:06.8
6	Christoph Höhne	Germany	4:17:41.6
7	Anatoly Vediakov	Soviet Union	4:19:55.8
8	Kurt Sakowski	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	Raymond 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	Ejiri Tadamasa	Japan	4:37:31.8
23	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	4:40:45.0
24	Malkolm Roy Syversson	Sweden	4:41:47.6
25	Saito Kazuo	Japan	4:43:01.0
26	Bruce Macdonald	United States	4:45:10.4
27	Miwa Sumio	Japan	4:52:00.6
28	Ilie Popa	Romania	4:57:40.8
29	Michael Warren 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
—	Rajan (athlete)	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

References

• Official Report