2012 Summer Olympics Results - Athletics
| Men's 50km Walk | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| August 11 - Final | |||
RUSRussia | Sergey Kirdyapkin | 3:35:59 OR | |
AUSAustralia | Jared Tallent | 3:36:53 | |
CHNChina | Si Tianfeng | 3:37:16 | |
| 4 | IRLIreland | Robert Heffernan | 3:37:54 |
| 5 | RUSRussia | Igor Erokhin | 3:37:54 |
| 6 | RUSRussia | Sergey Bakulin | 3:38:55 |
| 7 | CHNChina | Li Jianbo | 3:39:01 |
| 8 | SVKSlovakia | Matej Tóth | 3:41:24 |
| 9 | POLPoland | Lukasz Nowak | 3:42:47 |
| 10 | JPNJapan | Koichiro Morioka | 3:43:14 |
| 11 | GERGermany | André Höhne | 3:44:26 |
| 12 | FRAFrance | Bertrand Moulinet | 3:45:35 |
| 13 | KORSouth Korea | Park Chil-Sung | 3:45:55 |
| 14 | BLRBelarus | Ivan Trotski | 3:46:09 |
| 15 | FINFinland | Jarkko Kinnunen | 3:46:25 |
| 16 | MEXMexico | Horacio Nava | 3:46:59 |
| 17 | ITAItaly | Marco De Luca | 3:47:19 |
| 18 | POLPoland | Rafal Sikora | 3:47:47 |
| 19 | UKRUkraine | Ihor Hlavan | 3:48:07 |
| 20 | ESPSpain | Jesús Ángel García | 3:48:32 |
| 21 | NORNorway | Trond Nymark | 3:48:37 |
| 22 | AUSAustralia | Nathan Deakes | 3:48:45 |
| 23 | MEXMexico | Omar Zepeda | 3:49:14 |
| 24 | GERGermany | Christopher Linke | 3:49:19 |
| 25 | GREGreece | Aléxandros Papamihaíl | 3:49:56 |
| 26 | AUSAustralia | Luke Adams | 3:53:41 |
| 27 | ESAEl Salvador | Emerson Hernández | 3:53:57 |
| 28 | MEXMexico | José Leyver Ojeda | 3:55:00 |
| 29 | IRLIreland | Brendan Boyce | 3:55:01 |
| 30 | NZLNew Zealand | Quentin Rew | 3:55:03 |
| 31 | FRAFrance | Cédric Houssaye | 3:55:16 |
| 32 | RSASouth Africa | Marc Mundell | 3:55:32 |
| 33 | COLColombia | Fredy Hernández | 3:56:00 |
| 34 | KORSouth Korea | Yim Jung-Hyun | 3:56:34 |
| 35 | UKRUkraine | Serhiy Budza | 3:56:35 |
| 36 | INDIndia | Basant Bahadur Rana | 3:56:48 |
| 37 | CHNChina | Zhao Jianguo | 3:56:59 |
| 38 | KORSouth Korea | Kim Dong-Young | 3:57:33 |
| 39 | ROURomania | Marius Cocioran | 3:57:52 |
| 40 | PORPortugal | Pedro Isidro | 3:58:59 |
| 41 | FINFinland | Antti Kempas | 4:01:50 |
| 42 | ESPSpain | Mikel Odriozola | 4:02:48 |
| 43 | USAUnited States | John Nunn | 4:03:28 |
| 44 | GEOGeorgia | Maciej Michal Rosiewicz | 4:05:20 |
| 45 | LATLatvia | Igors Kazakevics | 4:06:47 |
| 46 | LTULithuania | Tadas Suskevicius | 4:08:16 |
| 47 | ECUEcuador | Xavier Moreno | 4:09:23 |
| 48 | SVKSlovakia | Milos Bátovský | 4:09:32 |
| 49 | KAZKazakhstan | Vitaliy Anichkin | 4:14:09 |
| 50 | ESPSpain | Benjamín Sánchez | 4:14:40 |
| 51 | GBRGreat Britain | Dominic King | 4:15:05 |
| 99 | CHIChile | Edward Araya | DSQ |
| 99 | ECUEcuador | Andrés Chocho | DSQ |
| 99 | FRAFrance | Yohann Diniz | DSQ |
| 99 | GUAGuatemala | Erick Barrondo | DSQ |
| 99 | GUAGuatemala | Jaime Quiyuch | DSQ |
| 99 | IRLIreland | Colin Griffin | DSQ |
| 99 | JPNJapan | Takayuki Tanii | DNF |
| 99 | JPNJapan | Yuki Yamazaki | DSQ |
| 99 | POLPoland | Rafal Fedaczynski | DNF |
| 99 | PORPortugal | João Vieira | DNF |
| 99 | SRBSerbia Republic | Nenad Filipovic | DNF |
| 99 | UKRUkraine | Oleksiy Kazanin | DSQ |
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