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The 50 kilometre race walk [2] was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. 50 kilometres is approximately ...
The men's 50 kilometres walk was the longer of the two men's race walking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, as well as the longest event on the program. It was held on 18 October 1964. 39 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 34 starting and 31 finishing. [1]
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 ]
The 50 kilometres race walk (men only) was discontinued after the 2020 Summer Olympics. [1] The biennial World Athletics Championships also features both 20 and 50 kilometer events, the 50 km walk for women being contested until 2019. The 50 km race walk was replaced by the 35 kilometres race walk as standard championship discipline in 2022.
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 11 August [1] on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill. [2] The event was marred by the disqualification of all three Russian athletes due to doping violations.
The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 22 at the Beijing National Stadium. [ 1 ] The qualifying standards were 4:00:00 (A standard) and 4:07:00 (B standard).
The Men's 50 km race walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 29 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia, starting at 08:00h [1] Medalists. Gold:
This was the 20th appearance of the event: except for 1976, [3] it has appeared at every Olympics since 1932. The reigning champion is Matej Tóth of Slovakia.. Due to the Olympics' movement towards gender equality (the 50 kilometres walk was the only men's event on the 2020 athletics programme with no women's equivalent) [4] and declining fan attendance and TV ratings for the event, the men's ...