| Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 | |||
| 20 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 | |||
These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday November 24, 1956. There were a total number of 21 participants from 10 nations.
| RANK | NAME ATHLETE | TIME |
|---|---|---|
| Norman Read (NZL) | 4:30:42.8 | |
| Yevgeniy Maskinskov (URS) | 4:32:57.0 | |
| John Ljunggren (SWE) | 4:35:02.0 | |
| 4. | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:39:00.0 |
| 5. | Antal Róka (HUN) | 4:50:09.0 |
| 6. | Raymond Smith (AUS) | 4:56:08.0 |
| 7. | Adolf Weinacker (USA) | 5:00:16.0 |
| 8. | Albert Johnson (GBR) | 5:02:19.0 |
| 9. | Eric Hall (GBR) | 5:03:59.0 |
| 10. | Ion Barbu (ROU) | 5:08:33.6 |
| 11. | Elliott Denman (USA) | 5:12:14.0 |
| 12. | Leo Sjögren (SWE) | 5:12:34.0 |
| 13. | Ronald Crawford (AUS) | 5:22:36.0 |
| — | Milan Skront (TCH) | DNF |
| — | Josef Dolezal (TCH) | DNF |
| — | Grigory Klimov (URS) | DNF |
| — | Janos Somogyi (HUN) | DNF |
| — | Dumitru Parachivescu (ROU) | DNF |
| — | Donald Thomson (GBR) | DNF |
| — | Ted Allsopp (AUS) | DSQ |
| — | Mikhail Lavrov (URS) | DSQ |
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