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

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (final)
Medalists
01 ! John Ljunggren  Sweden 02 ! Gaston Godel  Switzerland 03 ! Tebbs Lloyd Johnson  Great Britain

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

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.

Records

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

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:41:52
02 !	Gaston Godel	Switzerland	4:48:17
03 !	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:48:31
4	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:53:18
5	Bert 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	Ernie 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

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 kilometre hurdles, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-07-03.
• 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.