| | Event type

50 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date	21 July 1952 — 14:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki
Participants	31 from 16 countries
Olympic Record	4-30:41.4 / Harold Whitlock GBR / 5 August 1936 / Details

The defending champion in this event, John Ljunggren, led out at the start but faded and would eventually finish ninth. By the halfway point, the lead had been taken by Giuseppe “Pino” Dordoni, the 1950 European Champion, who was leading by three minutes. He did not extend the lead from there but held on to win comfortably.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	10 km	20 km	30 km	40 km
1	257	Pino Dordoni	ITA	4-28:07.8	51:37 (3)	1-41:27 (=1)	2-35:04 (2)	3-30:46 (1)	Gold	OB
2	906	Josef Doležal	TCH	4-30:17.8	52:06 (5)	1-44:00 (3)	2-38:43 (3)	3-34:30 (2)	Silver
3	950	Antal Róka	HUN	4-31:27.2	– (–)	– (–)	2-40:19 (5)	3-36:41 (5)	Bronze
4	200	Rex Whitlock	GBR	4-32:21.0	52:13 (6)	1-44:34 (4)	2-39:22 (4)	3-35:02 (4)
5	443	Sergey Lobastov	URS	4-32:34.2	52:37 (=8)	1-46:06 (=8)	2-41:31 (=7)	3-37:24 (6)
6	444	Vladimir Ukhov	URS	4-32:51.6	– (–)	1-46:06 (=8)	2-41:31 (=7)	3-38:19 (7)
7	658	Dumitru Paraschivescu	ROU	4-41:05.2	– (–)	– (–)	2-41:28 (6)	3-39:15 (8)
8	656	Ion Baboie	ROU	4-41:52.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
9	693	John Ljunggren	SWE	4-43:45.2	51:11 (1)	1-41:27 (=1)	2-35:04 (1)	3-34:37 (3)
10	256	Giuseppe Kressevich	ITA	4-44:30.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
11	201	Harold Whitlock	GBR	4-45:12.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	3-42:51 (10)
12	949	Sándor László	HUN	4-45:55.8	51:17 (2)	1-44:56 (6)	2-41:56 (10)	3-42:26 (9)
13	746	Rudi Lüttge	GER	4-47:28.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
14	800	Pekka Viljanen	FIN	4-49:16.4	52:02 (4)	1-44:44 (5)	2-41:44 (9)	– (–)
15	199	Don Tunbridge	GBR	4-50:40.4	52:25 (7)	1-45:57 (7)	– (–)	– (–)
16	624	Raymond Lesage	FRA	4-52:37.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
17	512	Edgar Bruun	NOR	4-52:48.4	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
18	622	Claude Hubert	FRA	4-55:28.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
19	254	Salvatore Cascino	ITA	4-56:46.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
20	878	Harry Kristensen	DEN	4-57:35.8	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
21	623	Jean Strunc	FRA	4-59:08.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
22	1012	Adolf Weinacker	USA	5-01:00.4	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
23	442	Pavel Kazankov	URS	5-02:37.8	52:37 (=8)	1-46:06 (=8)	– (–)	– (–)
24	860	Gilbert Marquis	SUI	5-02:56.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
25	357	Ferd Hayward	CAN	5-04:40.4	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
26	859	René Charrière	SUI	5-08:59.0	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
27	513	Gerhard Winther	NOR	5-11:40.2	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
28	695	Åke Söderlund	SWE	5-30:56.6	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNF	9	Guillermo Weller	ARG	–	52:53 (10)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNF	1014	John Deni	USA	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNF	1013	Leo Sjogren	USA	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	657	Baruch Elias	ROU	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	694	Verner Ljunggren	SWE	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)