The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Athletics - 50 KM Walk

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

ITALY - 6 Medals
GREAT BRITAIN - 5 Medals
SWEDEN - 5 Medals

Medal Table
50 KM Walk 100 Meters
 200 Meters
400 Meters
 800 Meters
 1500 Meters
5000 Meters
 10000 Meters
 100 Meter Hurdles
110 Meter Hurdles 400 Meter Hurdles 3000 Meter Steeplechase
4X100 Relay 4X400 Relay Marathon
20 KM Walk High Jump Pole Vault
Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put
Discus Hammer Throw Javelin
Decathlon Heptathlon

Medal Winners  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1932
 Tommy Green - Great Britain
 Janis Dalins - Latvia
 Ugo Frigerio - Italy
1936
 Harold Whitlock - Great Britain
 Arthur Tell Schwab - Switzerland
 Adalberts Bubenko - Latvia
1948
 John Ljunggren - Sweden
 Gaston Godel - Switzerland
 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson - Great Britain
1952
 Giuseppe Dordoni - Italy
 Josef Dolezal - Czechoslovakia
 Antal Roka - Hungary
1956
 Norman Read - New Zealand
 Yevgeniy Maskinskov - Soviet Union
 John Ljunggren - Sweden
1960
 Don Thompson - Great Britain
 John Ljunggren - Sweden
 Abdon Pamich - Italy
1964
 Abdon Pamich - Italy
 Paul Nihill - Great Britain
 Ingvar Pettersson - Sweden
1968
 Christoph Hohne - East Germany
 Antal Kiss - Hungary
 Larry Young - United States
1972
 Bernd Kannenberg - West Germany
 Veniamin Soldatenko - Soviet Union
 Larry Young - United States
1980
 Hartwig Gauter - East Germany
 Jorge Llopart - Spain
 Evgeni Ivchenko - Soviet Union
1984
 Raul Gonzalez - Mexico
 Bo Gustafsson - Sweden
 Sandro Bellucci - Italy
1988
 Vyacheslav Ivanenko - Soviet Union
 Ronald Weigel - East Germany
 Hartwig Gauder - East Germany
1992
 Andrey Perlov - Unified Team
 Carlos Mercenario - Mexico
 Ronald Weigel - Germany
1996
 Robert Korzeniowski - Poland
 Mikhail Shchennikov - Russia
 Valenti Massana - Spain
2000
 Robert Korzeniowski - Poland
 Aigars Fadejevs - Latvia
 Joel Sanchez Guerrero - Mexico
2004
 Robert Korzeniowski - Poland
 Denis Nizhegorodov - Russia
 Aleksey Voyevodin - Russia
2008
 Alex Schwazer - Italy
 Jared Tallent - Australia
 Denis Nizhegorodov - Russia
2012
 Jared Tallent - Australia Si Tianfeng - China Robert Heffernan - Ireland
2016
 Matej Tóth - Slovakia
 Jared Tallent - Australia Hirooki Arai - Japan
2020
 Dawid Tomala - Poland Jonathan Hilbert - Germany Evan Dunfee - Canada


Medal Total  Medal Winners
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Italy
 3
 0
 3
 6
2
 Great Britain
 3
 1
 1
 5
3
 Sweden
 1
 2
 2
 5
4
 Poland 4
 0
 0
 4
5
 East Germany
 2
 1
 1
 4
6
 Soviet Union
 1
 2
 1
 4
7
 Russia
 0
 2
 2
 4
8
 Australia 1
 2
 0
 3
9
 Mexico
 1
 1
 1
 3
10
 Latvia
 0
 2
 1
 3
11
 Switzerland
 0
 2
 0
 2
12
 Hungary
 0
 1
 1
 2
13
 Spain
 0
 1
 1
 2
14
 Germany 0
 1
 1
 2
15
 United States
 0
 0
 2
 2
16
 New Zealand
 1
 0
 0
 1
17
 Slovakia
 1
 0
 0
 1
18
 West Germany
 1
 0
 0
 1
19
 Unified Team
 1
 0
 0
 1
20
 China 0
 1
 0
 1
21
 Czechoslovakia
 0
 1
 0
 1
22
 Japan
 0
 0
 1
 1
23
 Ireland
 0
 0
 1
 1
24
 Canada
 0
 0
 1
 1