1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 50 km walk (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	50 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (start and finish)
Competition phase	August 3, 1932
Medalist Tommy Green ( GBR )   Jānis Daliņš ( LAT )   Ugo Frigerio ( ITA )

The men's 50 km walk at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 3, 1932. 15 athletes took part. Start and finish was the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum .

Since 1908 , walking competitions have been held over various distances. Only in 1928 in Amsterdam there was no walking discipline. Here in Los Angeles , sports goers could compete again. This time the 50 km route was introduced, which is an integral part of the Olympic program with the exception of 1976 until today.

First Olympic champion over the 50 km was the Briton Tommy Green ahead of the Latvian Jānis Daliņš . The Italian Ugo Frigerio , three-time Olympic champion in 1920 and 1924 , won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World best time: 4:30:22 h - Romano Vecchietti ( Italy ), Rome , September 16, 1928 - World records are not set in street walking because of the different track conditions.
• The discipline was on the Olympic program for the first time. That is why there was no Olympic record yet .

Conducting the competition

There were no preliminary decisions, the competitors all went to the final together.

The race

Ugo Frigerio (ITA) won bronze

Date: August 3, 1932

In the brooding midday heat, the walkers were sent to the new Olympic distance of fifty kilometers. Everyone suffered a lot from the hardships and many athletes had to give up. The 39-year-old Brit Thomas Green became Olympic champion. The Latvian Jānis Daliņš reached the finish line a good seven minutes behind, bronze went to Ugo Frigerio from Italy, who dominated the walking distances at the Olympic Games in 1920 and 1924 . In 1928 , walking was temporarily removed from the Olympic program.

Jānis Daliņš won the first Olympic medal for Latvia.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tommy Green	Great Britain	4:50:10 h
2	Jānis Daliņš	Latvia	4:57:20 h
3	Ugo Frigerio	Italy	4:59:06 h
4th	Karl Hähnel	German Empire	5:06:06 h
5	Ettore Rivolta	Italy	5:07:39 h
6th	Paul Sievert	German Empire	5:16:41 h
7th	Henri Quintric	France	5:27:25 h
8th	Ernest Crosbie	United States	5:28:02 h
9	Bill Chisholm	United States	5:51:00 h
10	Alfred Maasik	Estonia	6:19:00 h
DNF	Henry Cieman	Canada
	Harry Hinkel	United States
	Ioannis Moralis	Greece
	Francesco Pretti	Italy
	Arthur Tell Schwab	Switzerland

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 237

Web links

• SportsReference 50km Walk , accessed September 18, 2017
• Official report pp. 431-432, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 18, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World record development of 50 km walking on rekorde-im-sport.de , accessed on September 18, 2017
2. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 237