Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 km walk at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Dates	August 5
Medalists
Harold Whitlock  Great Britain Arthur Schwab  Switzerland Adalberts Bubenko  Latvia

The men's 50 km walk event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place August 5. The final was won by Harold Whitlock of Great Britain.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Harold Whitlock	Great Britain	4:30:41.4	OR
	Arthur Schwab	Switzerland	4:32:09.2
	Adalberts Bubenko	Latvia	4:32:42.2
4	Jaroslav Štork	Czechoslovakia	4:34:00.2
5	Edgar Bruun	Norway	4:34:53.2
6	Fritz Bleiweiß	Germany	4:36:48.4
7	Karl Reiniger	Switzerland	4:40:45.0
8	Étienne Laisné	France	4:41:40.0
9	Teodor Bieregowoj	Poland	4:42:49.0
10	Anton Toscani	Netherlands	4:42:59.4
11	Evald Segerström	Sweden	4:43:30.4
12	Ettore Rivolta	Italy	4:48:47.0
13	Adrien Courtois	France	4:49:07.0
14	Giuseppe Gobbato	Italy	4:49:51.0
15	Adolf Aebersold	Switzerland	4:51:14.0
16	Herbert Dill	Germany	4:51:26.0
17	Tebbs Lloyd Johnson	Great Britain	4:54:56.0
18	Mario Brignoli	Italy	4:58:12.0
19	Ryoji Naraoka	Japan	5:07:15.0
20	Vasile Firea	Romania	5:09:39.0
21	Albert Mangan	United States	5:12:00.2
22	Cai Tsungyi	China	5:16:02.4
23	Ernest Koehler	United States	5:20:18.2
24	Chao Yuyen	China	5:25:01.0
25	Chang Chanchiu	China	5:26:54.2
26	Ernie Crosbie	United States	5:31:44.2
	Jānis Dāliņš	Latvia		DNF
	Joe Hopkins	Great Britain		DNF
	Ejner Bech	Denmark		DNF
	Arnolds Krūkliņš	Latvia		DSQ
	Dick Löf	Sweden		DSQ
	Friedrich Prehn	Germany		DSQ
	Gösta Grandin	Sweden		DSQ

Key: DNF = Did not finish, DSQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 50 km walk, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-02.