Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	Guadalajara Circuit and Route
Dates	October 29
Competitors	16 from 9 nations
Winning time	3:48:58
Medalists
Horacio Nava   Mexico   José Leyver   Mexico   Jaime Quiyuch   Guatemala
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Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games
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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 50 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on the 29 of October at the Guadalajara Circuit and Route.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Xavier Moreno of Ecuador.

World Record	Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)	3:34:14	Cheboksary, Russia	May 11, 2008
Pan American Games record	Carlos Mercenario (MEX)	3:47:55	Mar del Plata, Argentina	March 24, 1995

This event did not require any qualification standard be met.^[2]

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

16 athletes from 9 countries competed.

Rank	Rider	Time[3]	Notes
	Horacio Nava (MEX)	3:48:58
	José Leyver (MEX)	3:49:16	PB
	Jaime Quiyuch (GUA)	3:50:33	PB
4	Fredy Hernández (COL)	4:00:12
5	Jonathan Rieckmann (BRA)	4:04:07	PB
6	Emerson Hernández (ESA)	4:12:53
7	Néstor Rueda (COL)	4:17:40
8	Bernardo Calvo (CRC)	4:21:19	NR
9	Benjamin Shorey (USA)	4:33:25
	Anibal Paau (GUA)	DNF
	Rolando Saquipay (ECU)	DNF
	Allan Segura (CRC)	DNF
	Edward Araya (CHI)	DQ
	Andrés Chocho (ECU)	DQ
	Mario Santos Junior (BRA)	DQ
	David Talcott (USA)	DQ