Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

	Men's 50 kilometres walk; at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31 (final)
Medalists
	John Ljunggren; Sweden
	Gaston Godel; Switzerland
	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson; Great Britain
«1936	1952»

Athletics at the 1948 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
10 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

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place July 31. The final was won by Swede John Ljunggren.

Results[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1 !	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:41:52
2 !	Gaston Godel	Switzerland	4:48:17
3 !	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:48:31
4	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:53:18
5	Bert Martineau	Great Britain	4:53:58
6	Rune Bjurström	Sweden	4:56:43
7	Pierre Mazille	France	5:01:40
8	Claude Hubert	France	5:03:12
9	Enrique Villaplana	Spain	5:03:31
10	Tage Jönsson	Sweden	5:05:08
11	Henri Caron	France	5:08:15
12	Ernie Crosbie	United States	5:15:16
13	Sándor László	Hungary	5:16:30
14	Salvatore Cascino	Italy	5:20:03
15	John Deni	United States	5:28:33
16	Adolf Weinacker	United States	5:30:14
	Francesco Pretti	Italy		DNF
	Rex Whitlock	Great Britain		DNF
	Gerhard Winther	Norway		DNF
	Per Olav Baarnaas	Norway		DNF
	Sadhu Singh	India		DNF
	Sixto Ibánez	Argentina		DNF
	Valentino Bertolini	Italy		DNF