Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, held on 3 September. This distance was not conducted in 1976, but returned in 1980. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.[1]

Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date3 September 1972
Competitors36 from 18 nations
Winning time3:56:11.6
Medalists
Bernd Kannenberg
 West Germany
Veniamin Soldatenko
 Soviet Union
Larry Young
 United States

Final

RankNameNationalityTime
Bernd Kannenberg West Germany3:56:11.6
Veniamin Soldatenko Soviet Union3:58:24.0
Larry Young United States4:00:46.0
4Otto Barch Soviet Union4:01:35.4
5Peter Selzer East Germany4:04:05.4
6Gerhard Weidner West Germany4:06:26.0
7Vittorio Visini Italy4:08:31.4
8Gabriel Hernández Mexico4:12:09.0
9Paul Nihill Great Britain4:14:09.4
10Charles Sowa Luxembourg4:14:21.2
11Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller East Germany4:14:28.8
12Hans Tenggren Sweden4:16:37.6
13Daniel Björkgren Sweden4:20:00.0
14Christoph Höhne East Germany4:20:43.8
15Stefan Ingvarsson Sweden4:21:01.0
16Horst-Rüdiger Magnor West Germany4:21:53.4
17William Weigle United States4:22:52.2
18John Warhurst Great Britain4:23:21.6
19Shaul Ladany Israel4:24:38.6
20Raúl González Mexico4:26:13.4
21Alex Oakley Canada4:28:42.6
22János Dalmati Hungary4:32:23.2
23Domenico Carpentieri Italy4:33:10.6
24Kjell Georg Lund Norway4:34:23.4
25Howard Timms Great Britain4:34:43.8
26Antal Kiss Hungary4:34:45.0
27Steve Hayden United States4:36:07.2
28Adalberto Scorza Argentina4:42:41.4
29Ole David Jensen Denmark4:57:13.8
-Abdon Pamich ItalyDQ
-Sergey Grigoryev Soviet UnionDQ
-Alfred Badel SwitzerlandDNF
-Jan Ornoch PolandDNF
-Jean-Claude Decosse FranceDNF
-José Oliveros MexicoDNF
-Karl-Heinz Merschenz CanadaDNF
-Ion Benga RomaniaDNS
-Andrzej Siennicki PolandDNS
-Winicjusz Nowosielski PolandDNS
-Vasile Dumitrescu RomaniaDNS
-Yuri Penalba NicaraguaDNS
-Ilia Popov BulgariaDNS

References

  1. "Athletics at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 50 kilometres Walk". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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