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The 50 kilometre race walk [2] was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. 50 kilometres is approximately ...
The 50 km is also the longest distance race for an Olympic athletics event. [1] In April 2023, a new Marathon Race Walking Mixed Relay event was announced for the 2024 Games, replacing the men's 50 km event. [2] The Olympic records in racewalking were all broken at the 2012 London Olympics.
This was the 20th appearance of the event: except for 1976, [3] it has appeared at every Olympics since 1932. The reigning champion is Matej Tóth of Slovakia.. Due to the Olympics' movement towards gender equality (the 50 kilometres walk was the only men's event on the 2020 athletics programme with no women's equivalent) [4] and declining fan attendance and TV ratings for the event, the men's ...
The 50 km race walk was replaced by the 35 kilometres race walk as standard championship discipline in 2022. The IAAF World Race Walking Cup, first held in 1961, is a stand-alone global competition for the discipline and it has 10 kilometres race walks for junior athletes, in addition to the Olympic-standard events. The IAAF World Indoor ...
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 11 August [1] on a route along The Mall and Constitution Hill. [2] The event was marred by the disqualification of all three Russian athletes due to doping violations.
The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 22 at the Beijing National Stadium. [ 1 ] The qualifying standards were 4:00:00 (A standard) and 4:07:00 (B standard).
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on 19 August. Matej Tóth, winner of the 2015 World Championships from Slovakia won the gold medal, reigning Olympic champion Jared Tallent from Australia finished second and Japanese walker Hirooki Arai took the bronze. The winning time was 3:40:58.
These are the official results of the Men's 50 km Walk at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 45 competitors, with seven athletes who were disqualified. There were a total number of 45 competitors, with seven athletes who were disqualified.