Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
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
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The Men's 50 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 42 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while four walkers did not finish the race, held on Friday September 30, 1988.

Medalists

Gold	Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Ronald Weigel East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Hartwig Gauder East Germany (GDR)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:38.17	May 25, 1986	Potsdam, East Germany
Olympic Record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:47.26	August 11, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38.29	September 30, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38:29	OR
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:38:56
	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:39:45
4	Aleksandr Potashov (URS)	3:41:00
5	José Marín (ESP)	3:43:03
6	Simon Baker (AUS)	3:44:07
7	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	3:44:49
8	Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA)	3:45:43
9	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	3:46:31
10	Pavol Szikora (TCH)	3:47:04
11	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	3:47:14
12	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	3:47:31
13	Jorge Llopart (ESP)	3:48:09
14	François Lapointe (CAN)	3:48:15
15	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	3:49:22
16	Alain Lemercier (FRA)	3:50:28
17	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	3:50:46
18	Reima Salonen (FIN)	3:51:36
19	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	3:53:23
20	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	3:53:34
21	José Pinto (POR)	3:55:57
22	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	3:56:55
23	Carl Schueler (USA)	3:57:44
24	Jacek Bednarek (POL)	3:58:31
25	Manuel Alcalde (ESP)	3:59:13
26	Vitaly Popovych (URS)	3:59:23
27	Les Morton (GBR)	3:59:30
28	Paul Blagg (GBR)	4:00:07
29	Li Baojin (CHN)	4:00:07
30	Héctor Moreno (COL)	4:01:31
31	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	4:03:12
32	Sandro Bellucci (ITA)	4:04:56
33	Arturo Bravo (MEX)	4:08:08
34	Andrew Kaestner (USA)	4:12:49
35	William Sawe (KEN)	4:25:24
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Erling Andersen (NOR)	DNF
—	Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL)	DNF
—	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	DNF
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Jean-Marie Neff (FRA)	DSQ
—	Eric Neisse (FRA)	DSQ
—	Hernán Andrade (MEX)	DSQ

See also

• 1987 Men's World Championships 50km Walk (Rome)
• 1988 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1990 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships 50km Walk (Tokyo)
• 1992 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Barcelona)

References

• (English) Official Report