Men's 50 kilometres walk at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	3 September 1972
Competitors	36 from 18 nations
Winning time	3:56:11.6 OR
Medalists
Bernd Kannenberg  West Germany Veniamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union Larry Young  United States
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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, held on 3 September. This distance was not conducted in 1976, but returned in 1980. There were no heats with this event, it was held as a finals only event.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Bernd Kannenberg	West Germany	3:56:11.6
	Veniamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	3:58:24.0
	Larry Young	United States	4:00:46.0
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:01:35.4
5	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:04:05.4
6	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:06:26.0
7	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:08:31.4
8	Gabriel Hernández	Mexico	4:12:09.0
9	Paul Nihill	Great Britain	4:14:09.4
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:14:21.2
11	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany	4:14:28.8
12	Hans Tenggren	Sweden	4:16:37.6
13	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	4:20:00.0
14	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:20:43.8
15	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:21:01.0
16	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor	West Germany	4:21:53.4
17	William Weigle	United States	4:22:52.2
18	John Warhurst	Great Britain	4:23:21.6
19	Shaul Ladany	Israel	4:24:38.6
20	Raúl González	Mexico	4:26:13.4
21	Alex Oakley	Canada	4:28:42.6
22	János Dalmati	Hungary	4:32:23.2
23	Domenico Carpentieri	Italy	4:33:10.6
24	Kjell Georg Lund	Norway	4:34:23.4
25	Howard Timms	Great Britain	4:34:43.8
26	Antal Kiss	Hungary	4:34:45.0
27	Steve Hayden	United States	4:36:07.2
28	Adalberto Scorza	Argentina	4:42:41.4
29	Ole David Jensen	Denmark	4:57:13.8
-	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DQ
-	Sergey Grigoryev	Soviet Union	DQ
-	Alfred Badel	Switzerland	DNF
-	Jan Ornoch	Poland	DNF
-	Jean-Claude Decosse	France	DNF
-	José Oliveros	Mexico	DNF
-	Karl-Heinz Merschenz	Canada	DNF
-	Ion Benga	Romania	DNS
-	Andrzej Siennicki	Poland	DNS
-	Winicjusz Nowosielski	Poland	DNS
-	Vasile Dumitrescu	Romania	DNS
-	Yuri Penalba	Nicaragua	DNS
-	Ilia Popov	Bulgaria	DNS

• Official report