These are the official results of the Men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, held on This distance was not conducted in 1976, but returned in 1980. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Bernd Kannenberg 3:56:11.6 Veniamin Soldatenko 3:58:24.0 Larry Young 4:00:46.0 4 Otto Barch 4:01:35.4 5 Peter Selzer 4:04:05.4 6 Gerhard Weidner 4:06:26.0 7 Vittorio Visini 4:08:31.4 8 Gabriel Hernández 4:12:09.0 9 Paul Nihill 4:14:09.4 10 Charles Sowa 4:14:21.2 11 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller 4:14:28.8 12 Hans Tenggren 4:16:37.6 13 Daniel Björkgren 4:20:00.0 14 Christoph Höhne 4:20:43.8 15 Stefan Ingvarsson 4:21:01.0 16 Horst-Rüdiger Magnor 4:21:53.4 17 William Weigle 4:22:52.2 18 John Warhurst 4:23:21.6 19 Shaul Ladany 4:24:38.6 20 Raúl González 4:26:13.4 21 Alex Oakley 4:28:42.6 22 János Dalmati 4:32:23.2 23 Domenico Carpentieri 4:33:10.6 24 Kjell Georg Lund 4:34:23.4 25 Howard Timms 4:34:43.8 26 Antal Kiss 4:34:45.0 27 Steve Hayden 4:36:07.2 28 Adalberto Scorza 4:42:41.4 29 Ole David Jensen 4:57:13.8 - Abdon Pamich DQ - Sergey Grigoryev DQ - Alfred Badel DNF - Jan Ornoch DNF - Jean-Claude Decosse DNF - José Oliveros DNF - Karl-Heinz Merschenz DNF - Ion Benga DNS - Andrzej Siennicki DNS - Winicjusz Nowosielski DNS - Vasile Dumitrescu DNS - Yuri Penalba DNS - Ilia Popov DNS
References
External links Official report