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
	← 1948 1956 →

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	23x15px Soviet Union	4:32:34.2
6	Vladimir Ukhov	23x15px 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	23x15px Soviet Union	5:02:37.8
24	Gilert Marquis	Switzerland	5:02:56.2
25	Ferd Hayward	23x15px 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