Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Seoul Olympic Stadium
Date	September 30
Competitors	42 from 22 nations
Winning time	3:38:29 OR
Medalists
	← 1984 1992 →

The Men's 50 km Race Walk event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 42 competitors. Three athletes were disqualified, while four walkers did not finish the race, held on Friday September 30, 1988.^[1]

Quick facts Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, Venue ...

Gold	Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union
Silver	Ronald Weigel East Germany
Bronze	Hartwig Gauder East Germany

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:38.17	May 25, 1986	Potsdam, East Germany
Olympic Record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:47.26	August 11, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38.29	September 30, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38:29	OR
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:38:56
	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:39:45
4	Aleksandr Potashov (URS)	3:41:00
5	José Marín (ESP)	3:43:03
6	Simon Baker (AUS)	3:44:07
7	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	3:44:49
8	Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA)	3:45:43
9	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	3:46:31
10	Pavol Szikora (TCH)	3:47:04
11	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	3:47:14
12	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	3:47:31
13	Jorge Llopart (ESP)	3:48:09
14	François Lapointe (CAN)	3:48:15
15	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	3:49:22
16	Alain Lemercier (FRA)	3:50:28
17	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	3:50:46
18	Reima Salonen (FIN)	3:51:36
19	Andrew Jachno (AUS)	3:53:23
20	Stefan Johansson (SWE)	3:53:34
21	José Pinto (POR)	3:55:57
22	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	3:56:55
23	Carl Schueler (USA)	3:57:44
24	Jacek Bednarek (POL)	3:58:31
25	Manuel Alcalde (ESP)	3:59:13
26	Vitaliy Popovych (URS)	3:59:23
27	Les Morton (GBR)	3:59:30
28	Paul Blagg (GBR)	4:00:07
29	Li Baojin (CHN)	4:00:07
30	Héctor Moreno (COL)	4:01:31
31	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	4:03:12
32	Sandro Bellucci (ITA)	4:04:56
33	Arturo Bravo (MEX)	4:08:08
34	Andrew Kaestner (USA)	4:12:49
35	William Sawe (KEN)	4:25:24
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Erling Andersen (NOR)	DNF
—	Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL)	DNF
—	Sándor Urbanik (HUN)	DNF
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Jean-Marie Neff (FRA)	DSQ
—	Eric Neisse (FRA)	DSQ
—	Hernán Andrade (MEX)	DSQ

Medalists