Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Dates	November 24
Competitors	21 from 10 nations
Winning time	4:30:42.8
Medalists
Norman Read  New Zealand Yevgeniy Maskinskov  Soviet Union John Ljunggren  Sweden
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Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 50 kilometres walk was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday November 24, 1956. There were a total number of 21 participants from 10 nations.^[1]

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	TIME
	Norman Read (NZL)	4:30:42.8
	Yevgeny Maskinskov (URS)	4:32:57.0
	John Ljunggren (SWE)	4:35:02.0
4.	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:39:00.0
5.	Antal Róka (HUN)	4:50:09.0
6.	Ray Smith (AUS)	4:56:08.0
7.	Adolf Weinacker (USA)	5:00:16.0
8.	Albert Johnson (GBR)	5:02:19.0
9.	Eric Hall (GBR)	5:03:59.0
10.	Ion Barbu (ROU)	5:08:33.6
11.	Elliott Denman (USA)	5:12:14.0
12.	Leo Sjögren (USA)	5:12:34.0
13.	Ronald Crawford (AUS)	5:22:36.0
—	Milan Skřont (TCH)	DNF
—	Josef Dolezal (TCH)	DNF
—	Grigory Klimov (URS)	DNF
—	János Somogyi (HUN)	DNF
—	Dumitru Parachivescu (ROU)	DNF
—	Don Thompson (GBR)	DNF
—	Ted Allsopp (AUS)	DSQ
—	Mikhail Lavrov (URS)	DSQ

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