Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 17
Competitors	36 from 19 nations
Winning time	4:20:13.6
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico was held on October 17. It was won by Christoph Höhne of East Germany.^[1]

Records edit

Prior to this event, the world and Olympic records stood as follows:

World record	Gennadiy Agapov (URS)	3:55:36	Almaty, Soviet Union	October 17, 1965
Olympic record	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:11:12	Tokyo, Japan	October 18, 1964

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:20:13.6
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	4:30:17.0
	Larry Young	United States	4:31:55.4
4	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:33:09.8
5	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:34:05.0
6	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:36:33.2
7	Bryan Eley	Great Britain	4:37:32.2
8	José Pedraza	Mexico	4:37:51.4
9	Karl-Heinz Merschenz	Canada	4:37:57.4
10	Goetz Klopfer	United States	4:39:13.8
11	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor	West Germany	4:39:43.2
12	Frank Clark	Australia	4:40:13.8
13	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	4:40:42.6
14	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:43:26.2
15	Sergey Grigoryev	Soviet Union	4:44:39.2
16	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:44:45.2
17	Kazuo Saito	Japan	4:47:29.6
18	Shaun Lightman	Great Britain	4:52:20.0
19	Bob Gardiner	Australia	4:52:29.0
20	Erwin Stütz	Switzerland	4:53:33.8
21	Henri Delerue	France	4:57:40.2
22	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	4:58:03.8
23	Felix Cappella	Canada	4:58:31.6
24	Shaul Ladany	Israel	5:01:06.0
25	Pablo Colín	Mexico	5:01:30.0
26	Dave Romansky	United States	5:38:03.4
27	Ismael Hernández	Mexico	5:56:09.2
28	Ricardo Cruz	El Salvador	5:56:22.0
	Bernhard Nermerich	West Germany	DSQ
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF
	Burkhard Leuschke	East Germany	DNF
	Gennady Agapov	Soviet Union	DNF
	Ihor Della-Rossa	Soviet Union	DNF
	John Kelly	Ireland	DNF
	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	DNF
	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	DNF