Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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.^[1]

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7, 1960
Competitors	39 from 20 nations
Winning time	4:25:30.0 OR
Medalists
Don Thompson  Great Britain John Ljunggren  Sweden Abdon Pamich  Italy
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Results

Final

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	Oleksandr Shcherbyna	Soviet Union	4:31:44.0
5	Tom Misson	Great Britain	4:33:03.0
6	Alex Oakley	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	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	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	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	Tunisia		DNF
-	Béla Dinesz	Hungary		DNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish