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
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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

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	23x15px 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	23x15px 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	23x15px 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	23x15px 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	23x15px Tunisia		DNF
-	Béla Dinesz	Hungary		DNF