Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 21 September in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time this distance was held at the Commonwealth Games, together with 20 kilometres walk replacing the 30 kilometres walk event.

The race was led by Craig Barrett of New Zealand until one kilometre before the finishing line when he collapsed from dehydration. Govindasamy Saravanan from Malaysia went on to win gaining his country's first ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in athletics.[1]

Results

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RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Govindasamy Saravanan Malaysia4:10:05NR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Duane Cousins Australia4:10:30
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Dominic McGrath Australia4:12:52
4Steven Hollier England4:18:41
5Mark Easton England4:22:23
6Graham White Scotland4:30:17
7Kannian Pushparajan Malaysia4:31:22
8Chris Cheeseman England4:38:36
9Thirukumaran Balaysendaran Malaysia4:44:33
10Tony Sargisson New Zealand4:45:04
Craig Barrett New ZealandDNF
Tim Berrett CanadaDNF
Dion Russell AustraliaDNF

References

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