Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7
Medalists
Don Thompson Great Britain   John Ljunggren Sweden   Abdon Pamich Italy

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
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
Decathlon		men

The men's 50 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7. The event was held in a final only format.

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Don Thompson	Great Britain	4:25:30.0	OR
	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:25:47.0
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:27:55.4
4	Aleksandr Shcherbina	Soviet Union	4:31:44.0
5	Thomas Misson	Great Britain	4:33:03.0
6	Alex Oakley	Canada	4:33:08.6
7	Pino Dordoni	Italy	4:33:27.2
8	Zora Singh	India	4:37:44.6
9	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	4:39:57.6
10	Antonio De Gaetano	Italy	4:41:01.6
11	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	4:42:33.6
12	George Hazle	South Africa	4:43:18.8
13	Max Weber	United Team of Germany	4:44:47.0
14	Svätopluk Sýkora	Czechoslovakia	4:46:14.6
15	Ajit Singh	India	4: 47:28.4
16	Horst Astroth	United Team of Germany	4:50:57.0
17	Josef Doležal	Czechoslovakia	4:51:18.6
18	José Ribas	Spain	4:51:20.0
19	Ron Laird	United States	4:53:21.6
20	Frank O'Reilly	Ireland	4:54:40.0
21	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:57:00.4
22	Louis Marquis	Switzerland	5:00:13.0
23	Bruce MacDonald	United States	5:00:47.6
24	John Allen	United States	5:03:15.2
25	Alfred Leiser	Switzerland	5:06:55.0
26	Mohamed Ben Lazhar	Tunisia	5:07:57.4
27	René Charrière	Switzerland	5:09:00.8
28	Jacques Arnoux	France	5:10:22.0
-	Albert Johnson	Great Britain		DQ
-	Grigory Klimov	Soviet Union		DQ
-	Guillermo Weller	Argentina		DQ
-	Kurt Sakowski	United Team of Germany		DQ
-	Noel Freeman	Australia		DQ
-	Ronald Crawford	Australia		DQ
-	Erik Söderlund	Sweden		DNF
-	Åke Söderlund	Sweden		DNF
-	Norman Read	New Zealand		DNF
-	Naoui Zlassi	Tunisia		DNF
-	Béla Dinesz	Hungary		DNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 kilometre walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-10.