Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 5
Competitors	33 from 16 nations
Medalists
Harold Whitlock Great Britain   Arthur Tell Schwab Switzerland   Adalberts Bubenko Latvia

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place August 5. The final was won by Harold Whitlock of Great Britain.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Harold Whitlock	Great Britain	4:30:41.4	OR
02 !	Arthur Tell Schwab	Switzerland	4:32:09.2
03 !	Adalberts Bubenko	Latvia	4:32:42.2
4	Jaroslav Štork	Czechoslovakia	4:34:00.2
5	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:34:53.2
6	Fritz Bleiweiß	Germany	4:36:48.4
7	Karl Reiniger	Switzerland	4:40:45.0
8	Étienne Laisné	France	4:41:40.0
9	Teodor Bieregowoj	Poland	4:42:49.0
10	Anton Toscani	Netherlands	4:42:59.4
11	Evald Segerström	Sweden	4:43:30.4
12	Ettore Rivolta	Italy	4:48:47.0
13	Adrien Courtois	France	4:49:07.0
14	Giuseppe Gobbato	Italy	4:49:51.0
15	Adolf Aebersold	Switzerland	4:51:14.0
16	Herbert Dill	Germany	4:51:26.0
17	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:54:56.0
18	Mario Brignoli	Italy	4:58:12.0
19	Ryoji Naraoka	Japan	5:07:15.0
20	Vasile Firea	Romania	5:09:39.0
21	Albert Mangan	United States	5:12:00.2
22	Cai Tsungyi	Republic of China	5:16:02.4
23	Ernest Koehler	United States	5:20:18.2
24	Chao Yuyen	Republic of China	5:25:01.0
25	Chang Chanchiu	Republic of China	5:26:54.2
26	Ernie Crosbie	United States	5:31:44.2
	Jānis Dāliņš	Latvia		DNF
	Joe Hopkins	Great Britain		DNF
	Ejner Bech	Denmark		DNF
	Arnolds Krūkliņš	Latvia		DSQ
	Dick Löf	Sweden		DSQ
	Friedrich Prehn	Germany		DSQ
	Gösta Grandin	Sweden		DSQ

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DSQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 kilometre walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-02.