Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Date	October 17
Competitors	36 from 19 nations
Winning time	4:20:13.6
Medalists
Christoph Höhne  East Germany Antal Kiss  Hungary Larry Young  United States
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Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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]

Records[]

Prior to this event, the world and Olympic records stood as follows:

World record	Gennadiy Agapov (URS)	3:55:36	Almaty, Soviet Union	October 17, 1965
Olympic record	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:11:12	Tokyo, Japan	October 18, 1964

Result[]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:20:13.6
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	4:30:17.0
	Larry Young	United States	4:31:55.4
4	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:33:09.8
5	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:34:05.0
6	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:36:33.2
7	Bryan Eley	Great Britain	4:37:32.2
8	José Pedraza	Mexico	4:37:51.4
9	Karl-Heinz Merschenz	Canada	4:37:57.4
10	Goetz Klopfer	United States	4:39:13.8
11	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor	West Germany	4:39:43.2
12	Frank Clark	Australia	4:40:13.8
13	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	4:40:42.6
14	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:43:26.2
15	Sergey Grigoryev	Soviet Union	4:44:39.2
16	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:44:45.2
17	Kazuo Saito	Japan	4:47:29.6
18	Shaun Lightman	Great Britain	4:52:20.0
19	Bob Gardiner	Australia	4:52:29.0
20	Erwin Stütz	Switzerland	4:53:33.8
21	Henri Delerue	France	4:57:40.2
22	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	4:58:03.8
23	Felix Cappella	Canada	4:58:31.6
24	Shaul Ladany	Israel	5:01:06.0
25	Pablo Colín	Mexico	5:01:30.0
26	Dave Romansky	United States	5:38:03.4
27	Ismael Hernández	Mexico	5:56:09.2
28	Ricardo Cruz	El Salvador	5:56:22.0
	Bernhard Nermerich	West Germany	DSQ
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF
	Burkhard Leuschke	East Germany	DNF
	Gennady Agapov	Soviet Union	DNF
	Ihor Della-Rossa	Soviet Union	DNF
	John Kelly	Ireland	DNF
	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	DNF
	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	DNF

References[]

External links[]

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 13, 2012.