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 RankAthleteNationalityTimeNotes Giuseppe Dordoni 4:28:07.8OR Josef Doležal 4:30:17.8 Antal Róka 4:31:27.2 4 Rex Whitlock 4:32:21.0 5 Sergey Lobastov 4:32:34.26 Vladimir Ukhov 4:32:51.67 Dumitru Paraschivescu 4:41:05.28 Ion Baboie 4:41:52.89 John Ljunggren 4:43:45.210 Giuseppe Kressevich 4:44:30.211 Harold Whitlock 4:45:12.6 12 Sándor László 4:45:55.8 13 Rudi Lüttge 4:47:28.614 Pekka Viljanen 4:49:16.415 Donald Tunbridge 4:50:40.416 Raymond Lesage 4:52:37.8 17 Edgar Bruun 4:52:48.418 Claude Hubert 4:55:28.2 19 Salvatore Cascino 4:56:46.0 20 Harry Kristensen 4:57:35.8 21 Jean Strunc 4:59:08.2 22 Adolf Weinacker 5:01:00.4 23 Pavel Kazankov 5:02:37.8 24 Gilbert Marquis 5:02:56.2 25 Ferd Hayward 5:04:40.4 26 René Charrière 5:08:59.0 27 Gerhard Winther 5:11:40.228 Åke Söderlund 5:30:56.6 Guillermo Weller John Deni Leo Sjogren Baruch Elias Verner Ljunggren
References
External links Official Olympic Report, la84.org.