Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

These are the official results of the men's 50 km walk at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland
Silver	Mikhail Shchennikov  Russia
Bronze	Valentí Massana  Spain

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Record	Andrey Perlov (URS)	3:37.41	August 5, 1989	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Olympic Record	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38.29	September 30, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

Results

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3'43:30
	Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)	3'43:46
	Valentí Massana (ESP)	3'44:19
4.	Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)	3'44:52
5.	Viktor Ginko (BLR)	3'45:27
6.	Ignacio Zamudio (MEX)	3'46:07
7.	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3'47:40
8.	Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)	3'48:42
9.	Daniel García (MEX)	3'50:05
10.	Tim Berrett (CAN)	3'51:28
11.	Aleksandar Raković (YUG)	3'51:31
12.	Axel Noack (GER)	3'51:55
13.	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	3'52:31
14.	Zhang Huiqiang (CHN)	3'53:10
15.	Thomas Wallstab (GER)	3'54:48
16.	Héctor Moreno (COL)	3'54:57
17.	Julio César Urías (GUA)	3'56:27
18.	Germán Sánchez (MEX)	3'57:47
19.	René Piller (FRA)	3'58:00
20.	Roman Mrazek (SVK)	3'58:20
21.	Štefan Malík (SVK)	3'58:40
22.	Jaime Barroso (ESP)	4'01:09
23.	Modris Liepiņš (LAT)	4'01:12
24.	Allen James (USA)	4'01:18
25.	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	4'01:49
26.	Andrzej Chylinski (USA)	4'03:13
27.	Miloš Holuša (CZE)	4'03:16
28.	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	4'04:42
29.	Tadahiro Kosaka (JPN)	4'05:57
30.	Antero Lindman (FIN)	4'07:58
31.	Pascal Charrière (SUI)	4'10:20
32.	Peter Tichý (SVK)	4'10:55
33.	Craig Barrett (NZL)	4'15:15
34.	Chris Maddocks (GBR)	4'18:41
35.	Daugvinas Zujus (LTU)	4'23:35
36.	José Magalhaes (POR)	4'27:37
—	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	DNF
—	Duane Cousins (AUS)	DNF
—	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	DNF
—	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	DNF
—	Jani Lehtinen (FIN)	DNF
—	Vitaliy Popovych (UKR)	DNF
—	Andrey Plotnikov (RUS)	DNF
—	Ronald Weigel (GER)	DNF
—	Hubert Sonnek (CZE)	DNF
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DSQ
—	Simon Baker (AUS)	DSQ
—	Hugo López (GUA)	DSQ
—	Mao Xinyuan (CHN)	DSQ
—	Zhao Yongsheng (CHN)	DSQ
—	Herman Nelson (USA)	DSQ
—	Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA)	DNS

See also

• 1996 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Official Report
• Results
• sports-reference