Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km Race Walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR had an entry list of 27 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified and nine of them did not finish in the final, held on 30 July 1980.^[1] This event was not held during 1976 Summer Olympics,returning to Olympic program after last returning to the program after a hiatus edition, because it was held in 1972.

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Central Lenin Stadium
Date	30 July
Competitors	29 from 14 nations
Winning time	3:49:24
Medalists
Hartwig Gauder  East Germany Jordi Llopart  Spain Yevgeniy Ivchenko  Soviet Union
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This event netted Spain its first-ever medal in athletics, with Jordi Llopart taking silver.^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany
Silver	Jordi Llopart  Spain
Bronze	Yevgeniy Ivchenko  Soviet Union

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:49:24
	Jordi Llopart (ESP)	3:51:25
	Yevgeniy Ivchenko (URS)	3:56:32
4	Bengt Simonsen (SWE)	3:57:08
5	Vyacheslav Fursov (URS)	3:58:32
6	Josep Marín (ESP)	4:03:08
7	Stanisław Rola (POL)	4:07:07
8	Willi Sawall (AUS)	4:08:25
9	László Sátor (HUN)	4:10:53
10	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	4:16:26
11	Ian Richards (GBR)	4:22:57
12	Christos Karageorgos (GRE)	4:24:36
13	Juraj Benčík (TCH)	4:27:39
14	Enrique Peña (COL)	4:29:27
15	Ernesto Alfaro (COL)	4:46:28
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)	DNF
—	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	DNF
—	David Smith (AUS)	DNF
—	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	DNF
—	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	DNF
—	Raúl González (MEX)	DNF
—	Reima Salonen (FIN)	DNF
—	Borys Yakovlev (URS)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	DSQ
—	Jaromír Vaňous (TCH)	DSQ
—	Uwe Dünkel (GDR)	DSQ

See also

• 1982 Men's European Championships 50 km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 50 km Walk (Helsinki)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 50 km Walk (Stuttgart)