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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
John Ljunggren 1948
Venue	Empire Stadium
Dates	July 31 (final)
Competitors	23 from 11 nations
Winning time	4:41:52
Medalists
John Ljunggren  Sweden Gaston Godel  Switzerland Tebbs Lloyd Johnson  Great Britain
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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place July 31. The final was won by Swede John Ljunggren.^[1]

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the existing Olympic record was as follows.

Olympic record

Harold Whitlock (GBR)

4:30:41.4

Berlin, Germany

5 August 1936

Schedule[edit]

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:41:52
	Gaston Godel	Switzerland	4:48:17
	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:48:31
4	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:53:18
5	Herbert Martineau	Great Britain	4:53:58
6	Rune Bjurström	Sweden	4:56:43
7	Pierre Mazille	France	5:01:40
8	Claude Hubert	France	5:03:12
9	Enrique Villaplana	Spain	5:03:31
10	Tage Jönsson	Sweden	5:05:08
11	Henri Caron	France	5:08:15
12	Ernest Crosbie	United States	5:15:16
13	Sándor László	Hungary	5:16:30
14	Salvatore Cascino	Italy	5:20:03
15	John Deni	United States	5:28:33
16	Adolf Weinacker	United States	5:30:14
	Francesco Pretti	Italy		DNF
	Rex Whitlock	Great Britain		DNF
	Gerhard Winther	Norway		DNF
	Per Olav Baarnaas	Norway		DNF
	Sadhu Singh	India		DNF
	Sixto Ibánez	Argentina		DNF
	Valentino Bertolini	Italy		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish

References[edit]

Sources[edit]

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.