The Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk was included in all Summer Olympics from 1932, apart from the 1976 Montreal Games, until the final event took place in 2020. Athletes from Poland have won the most gold medals, with four overall, while Italian athletes have won the most overall medals, with six in total. The event's most successful athlete is Poland's Robert Korzeniowski, who won three back-to-back gold medals between 1996 and 2004. Russia's 2012 gold medal winner Sergey Kirdyapkin is the only athlete to have been stripped of a medal won in this event. The event was discontinued after 2020, as there was no women's event at this distance; in an attempt to increase equality in participation, this event will be replaced with a mixed team event from 2024 onwards.
Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020*
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes the Unified Team of 1992 (which was made up of athletes from all former Soviet States, except the three Baltic states).
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 6, 2021). Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020* [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020*." Chart. August 6, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020*. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Men's 50 Kilometer Race Walk at The Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020*." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020* Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/ (last visited December 21, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Men's 50 kilometer Race Walk at the Summer Olympics from 1932 to 2020* [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 6, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118092/olympics-mens-50km-race-walk-medal-table-since-1932/
