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50 kilometres Race Walk, Men

Date 2 August 1996 — 7:30
StatusOlympic
LocationCentennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants51 from 27 countries

Robert Korzeniowski (POL) had been disqualified in the 1992 Olympics and the 1993 World Championships in this event. But he had managed to finish the 1995 World Championships and earned a bronze medal. The two favorites with the Pole were Valentin Kononen (FIN) and Jesús Ángel García (ESP). García took a big early lead but would be disqualified after he was dropped near 40 km. Kononen would finish seventh. Korzeniowski was always with the leaders and pulled away at 43 km. The surprise silver medalist was Russian Mikhail Shchennikov, making only his second start at this distance.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCTime
12050Robert KorzeniowskiPOL3-43:30Gold
22159Mikhail ShchennikovRUS3-43:46Silver
31356Valentí MassanaESP3-44:19Bronze
41702Arturo Di MezzaITA3-44:52
51128Viktar HinkoBLR3-45:27
61939Ignacio ZamudioMEX3-46:07
71412Valentin KononenFIN3-47:40
81780Sergey KorepanovKAZ3-48:42
91930Daniel GarcíaMEX3-50:05
101193Tim BerrettCAN3-51:28
112443Aleksandar RakovićSCG3-51:31
121567Axel NoackGER3-51:55
131719Gianni PerricelliITA3-52:31
141233Zhang HuiqiangCHN3-53:10
151580Thomas WallstabGER3-54:48
161252Héctor MorenoCOL3-54:57
171625Julio UríasGUA3-56:27
181936Germán SánchezMEX3-57:47
191445René PillerFRA3-58:00
202240Roman MrázekSVK3-58:20
212239Štefan MalíkSVK3-58:40
221331Jaime BarrosoESP4-01:09
231862Modris LiepiņšLAT4-01:12
242366Allen JamesUSA4-01:18
252147Nikolay MatyukhinRUS4-01:49
262339Andrzej ChylinskiUSA4-03:13
271303Miloš HolušaCZE4-03:16
281436Martial FesselierFRA4-04:42
291764Tadahiro KosakaJPN4-05:57
301415Antero LindmanFIN4-07:58
312220Pascal CharrièreSUI4-10:20
322242Peter TichýSVK4-10:55
332014Craig BarrettNZL4-15:15
341497Chris MaddocksGBR4-18:41
351896Daugvinas ZujusLTU4-23:35
362073José MagalhãesPOR4-27:37
DNF1039Duane CousinsAUS
DNF1348Jesús Ángel GarcíaESP
DNF1414Jani LehtinenFIN
DNF1701Giovanni De BenedictisITA
DNF1136Yauhen MisiuliaBLR
DNF1310Hubert SonnekCZE
DNF2316Vitaliy PopovychUKR
DNF2154Andrey PlotnikovRUS
DNF1581Ronald WeigelGER
DQ1451Thierry ToutainFRA
DQ1033Simon BakerAUS
DQ1621Hugo LópezGUA
DQ1235Zhao YongshengCHN
DQ1231Mao XinyuanCHN
DQ2384Herm NelsonUSA
DNS1919Feodosiy CiumacencoMDA