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50 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date11 August 1984 — 8:00
StatusOlympic
LocationLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
Participants31 from 16 countries

The day was hot as the race started and it only got hotter for the 4 hours it was contested. Raúl González was the world record holder but had not won gold at the Olympics nor at the 1983 World Championship. He went out very hard, taking a chance in the heat, but broke the field open and had dropped everybody by 40 km. He eventually won by almost six minutes. The field was depleted by the absence of the East Germans, notably Ronald Weigel and Hartwig Gauder, the defending champion.

PosNrWalkerNOCTimeWarnings
1639Raúl GonzálezMEX3-47:26OBGold
2805Bo GustafssonSWE3-53:19Silver
3493Sandro BellucciITA3-53:45Bronze
4265Reima SalonenFIN3-58:30
5501Raffaello DucceschiITA3-59:26
6937Carl SchuelerUSA3-59:46
7232Jorge LlopartESP4-03:09
8726José PintoPOR4-04:42
9220Manuel AlcaldeESP4-05:47
10632Ernesto CantoMEX4-07:59
1128Mike HarveyAUS4-09:18
12288Dominique GuebeyFRA4-13:34
13684Lars Ove MoenNOR4-15:12
14929Vince O'SullivanUSA4-22:51
15174Zhang FuxinCHN4-23:39
16376Chris MaddocksGBR4-26:33
17433José Víctor AlonzoGUA4-36:35
DNF500Maurizio DamilanoITA
DNF189José Querubín MorenoCOL
DNF128Guillaume LeBlancCAN
DNF897Marco EvoniukUSA
DNF292Gérard LelièvreFRA
DNF31Andrew JachnoAUS
DNF84Osvaldo MorejónBOL
DNF125Marcel JobinCAN
DNF37Willi SawallAUS
DQ631Martín BermúdezMEX
DQ127François LapointeCAN
DQ675Erling AndersenNOR
DQ808Roland NilssonSWE
DQ812Bengt SimonsenSWE
DNS7Abdel Wahab FergueneALG
DNS8Benamar KechkoucheALG
DNS233José MarínESP