Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
| Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XX Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany | |||||||||
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| Date | 3 September 1972 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 18 nations | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | women | ||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 100 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 | women | ||
| 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 | |||
These are the official results of the Men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 3 September. This distance was removed from the program following these Olympics, it was included back in the 1980 Summer Olympics. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bernd Kannenberg |  West Germany | 3:56:11.6 |
 | Veniamin Soldatenko | .svg.png){kind=small} Soviet Union | 3:58:24.0 |
 | Larry Young |  United States | 4:00:46.0 |
| 4 | Otto Barch | Soviet Union | 4:01:35.4 |
| 5 | Peter Selzer |  East Germany | 4:04:05.4 |
| 6 | Gerhard Weidner | West Germany | 4:06:26.0 |
| 7 | Vittorio Visini |  Italy | 4:08:31.4 |
| 8 | Gabriel Hernández |  Mexico | 4:12:09.0 |
| 9 | Paul Nihill |  Great Britain | 4:14:09.4 |
| 10 | Charles Sowa |  Luxembourg | 4:14:21.2 |
| 11 | Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller | East Germany | 4:14:28.8 |
| 12 | Hans Tenggren |  Sweden | 4:16:37.6 |
| 13 | Daniel Björkgren | Sweden | 4:20:00.0 |
| 14 | Christoph Höhne | East Germany | 4:20:43.8 |
| 15 | Stefan Ingvarsson | Sweden | 4:21:01.0 |
| 16 | Horst-Rüdiger Magnor | West Germany | 4:21:53.4 |
| 17 | William Weigle | United States | 4:22:52.2 |
| 18 | John Warhurst | Great Britain | 4:23:21.6 |
| 19 | Shaul Ladany |  Israel | 4:24:38.6 |
| 20 | Raúl González | Mexico | 4:26:13.4 |
| 21 | Alex Oakley |  Canada | 4:28:42.6 |
| 22 | János Dalmati |  Hungary | 4:32:23.2 |
| 23 | Domenico Carpentieri | Italy | 4:33:10.6 |
| 24 | Kjell Georg Lund |  Norway | 4:34:23.4 |
| 25 | Howard Timms | Great Britain | 4:34:43.8 |
| 26 | Antal Kiss | Hungary | 4:34:45.0 |
| 27 | Steve Hayden | United States | 4:36:07.2 |
| 28 | Adalberto Scorza |  Argentina | 4:42:41.4 |
| 29 | Ole David Jensen |  Denmark | 4:57:13.8 |
| - | Abdon Pamich | Italy | DQ |
| - | Sergey Grigoryev | Soviet Union | DQ |
| - | Alfred Badel |  Switzerland | DNF |
| - | Jan Ornoch |  Poland | DNF |
| - | Jean-Claude Decosse |  France | DNF |
| - | José Oliveros | Mexico | DNF |
| - | Karl-Heinz Merschenz | Canada | DNF |
| - | Ion Benga | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania | DNS |
| - | Andrzej Siennicki | Poland | DNS |
| - | Winicjusz Nowosielski | Poland | DNS |
| - | Vasile Dumitrescu | Romania | DNS |
| - | Yuri Penalba |  Nicaragua | DNS |
| - | Ilia Popov | .svg.png){kind=small} Bulgaria | DNS |
References
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