50,000-Meter Walk
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1932 | Thomas W. Green, Great Britain | 4:50:10.00 |
| 1936 | Harold Whitlock, Great Britain | 4:30:41.10 |
| 1948 | John Ljunggren, Sweden | 4:41:52.00 |
| 1952 | Giuseppe Dordoni, Italy | 4:28:07.80 |
| 1956 | Norman Read, New Zealand | 4:30:42.80 |
| 1960 | Donald Thompson, Great Britain | 4:25:30.00 |
| 1964 | Abdon Pamich, Italy | 4:11:12.40 |
| 1968 | Christoph Hohne, East Germany | 4:20:13.60 |
| 1972 | Bern Kannernberg, West Germany | 3:56:11.60 |
| 1980 | Hartwig Guader, East Germany | 3:49:24.00 |
| 1984 | Raul Gonzalez, Mexico | 3:37:26.00 |
| 1988 | Viacheslau Ivanenko, USSR | 3:48:29.00 |
| 1992 | Andrei Perlov, Unified Team1 | 3:50:13.00 |
| 1996 | Robert Korzeniowski, Poland | 3:43:30.00 |
| 2000 | Robert Korzeniowski, Poland | 3:42:22.00 |
| 2004 | Robert Korzeniowski, Poland | 3:38:46.00 |
| 2008* | Alex Schwazer, Italy | 3:37:09.00 |
* Indicates Olympic record. 1. Former Soviet Union team.
