The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 22 at the Beijing National Stadium.
The qualifying standards were 4:00:00 (A standard) and 4:07:00 (B standard).
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.
Date Name Nationality Time OR WR 22 August Alex Schwazer 3:37:09 OR
Results
RankAthleteNationalityNotes Alex Schwazer 3:37:09 Jared Tallent 3:39:27 PB Denis Nizhegorodov 3:40:14 Jesús Ángel García 3:44:08 SB Erik Tysse 3:45:21 PB Horacio Nava 3:45:21 PB Yuki Yamazaki 3:45:47 Rafał Fedaczyński 3:46:51 PB Grzegorz Sudoł 3:47:18 10 Luke Adams 3:47:45 PB 11 Antonio Pereira 3:48:12 NR 12 André Höhne 3:49:52 13 Mikel Odriozola 3:51:30 14 Li Jianbo 3:52:20 15 Jarkko Kinnunen 3:52:25 PB 16 Igors Kazakevics 3:52:38 PB 17 Si Tianfeng 3:52:58 18 Jesús Sánchez 3:53:58 19 Marco de Luca 3:54:47 20 Antti Kempas 3:55:19 PB 21 Zhao Chengliang 3:56:47 22 Luis Fernando García 3:56:58 SB 23 Mario Iván Flores 3:58:04 24 Sergiy Budza 3:58:21 PB 25 Fausto Quinde 3:59:28 PB 26 Santiago Pérez 3:59:41 SB 27 Oleksiy Shelest 3:59:46 28 Eddy Riva 4:00:49 29 Takayuki Tanii 4:01:37 30 Nenad Filipović 4:02:16 PB 31 Kim Dong-Young 4:02:32 32 Tadas Suskevicius 4:02:45 33 Hatem Ghoula 4:03:47 34 Rodrigo Moreno 4:03:52 35 Milos Batovsky 4:06:30 36 Xavier Moreno 4:07:04 37 Konstadinos Stefanopoulos 4:07:53 38 Tim Berrett 4:08:18 39 Philip Dunn 4:08:32 40 Augusto Cardoso 4:09:00 41 Mário dos Santos 4:10:25 42 Ingus Janevics 4:12:45 43 Andrei Stsepanchuk 4:14:09 44 Jamie Costin 4:15:16 45 Roman Bilek 4:18:32 46 Zoltán Czukor 4:20:07 47 Kazimir Verkin 4:21:26 Oleksiy Kazanin DNF Yohan Diniz DNF Trond Nymark DNF Donatas Skarnulis DNF Sergey Kirdyapkin DNF Adam Rutter DNF Peter Korcok DNF Artur Brzozowski DQ Diego Cafagna DQ Colin Griffin DQ Salvador Mira DQ Darius Skarnulis DQ Igor Erokhin DNS Joao Vieira DNS OR - Olympic Record / PB - Personal Best / SB - Season Best / NR - National Record / DNF - Did Not Finish / DQ - Disqualified / DNS - Did Not Start
Intermediates Intermediate Athlete Country Mark 10 km 1. Denis Nizhegorodov 44:392. Adam Rutter s.t.3. Jianbo Li s.t.4. Jared Tallent +0:015. Alex Schwazer s.t. 20 km 1. Denis Nizhegorodov 1:27:382. Jianbo Li +0:013. Jared Tallent s.t.4. Alex Schwazer s.t.5. Yohan Diniz +0:08 30 km 1. Jared Tallent 2:10:382. Alex Schwazer +0:013. Denis Nizhegorodov s.t.4. Jianbo Li s.t.5. Yohan Diniz +1:48 40 km 1. Jared Tallent 2:54:362. Alex Schwazer s.t.3. Denis Nizhegorodov s.t.4. Jianbo Li +1:585. Grzegorz Sudol +3:56
s.t. - same time.
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