Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Paul Nihill, Abdon Pamich and Ingvar Pettersson
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	18 October
Competitors	39 from 20 nations
Medalists
Abdon Pamich  Italy Paul Nihill  Great Britain Ingvar Pettersson  Sweden

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Athletics at the 1964 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

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]

Results

12 walkers beat the old Olympic record.

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:11:12.4 OR
2	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	4:11:31.2
3	Ingvar Pettersson	Sweden	4:14:17.4
4	Burkhard Leuschke	United Team of Germany	4:15:26.8
5	Bob Gardiner	Australia	4:17:06.8
6	Christoph Höhne	United Team of Germany	4:17:41.6
7	Anatoly Vediakov	Soviet Union	4:19:55.8
8	Kurt Sakowski	United Team of Germany	4:20:31.0
9	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:20:37.2
10	Don Thompson	Great Britain	4:22:39.4
11	Ronald Crawford	Australia	4:24:19.6
12	Gennady Agapov	Soviet Union	4:24:34.0
13	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	4:25:49.2
14	Alex Oakley	Canada	4:27:24.6
15	Henri Delerue	France	4:27:47.6
16	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:29:09.2
17	Ted Allsopp	Australia	4:31:07.8
18	Eugeny Liungin	Soviet Union	4:32:01.6
19	István Havasi	Hungary	4:34:14.0
20	Alexander Bilek	Czechoslovakia	4:34:54.2
21	Christopher McCarthy	United States	4:35:41.6
22	Tadamasa Ejiri	Japan	4:37:31.8
23	Erwin Stütz	Switzerland	4:40:45.0
24	Malkolm Roy Syversson	Sweden	4:41:47.6
25	Kazuo Saito	Japan	4:43:01.0
26	Bruce MacDonald	United States	4:45:10.4
27	Sumio Miwa	Japan	4:52:00.6
28	Ilie Popa	Romania	4:57:40.8
29	Mike Brodie	United States	4:57:41.0
30	Chedli El Marghni	Tunisia	4:59:13.0
31	So Kam Tong	Hong Kong	5:07:53.2
—	Maung Rajan	Burma	Did not finish 1:48:39 at 20 km
	Mieczysław Rutyna	Poland	Disqualified 1:17:08 at 15 km
	Naceur Ben Messaoud	Tunisia	Disqualified 0:24:34 at 5 km
	Emil Dragan	Romania	Did not start
	Istvan Gori	Hungary	Did not start
	Kim Tai Koo	North Korea	Did not start
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	Did not start
	Pak Tai Keun	North Korea	Did not start

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