# Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The Men's 50 km race walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 29 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia, starting at 08:00h

## Medalists

| Gold | Robert Korzeniowski Poland |
| Silver | Aigars Fadejevs Latvia |
| Bronze | Joel Sánchez Mexico |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| OR | olympic record |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics :
| World Record | Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) | 3:37.26 | 21 May 2000 | Moscow, Russia |
| Olympic Record | Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) | 3:38.29 | 30 September 1988 | Seoul, South Korea |

## Results

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time | Record |
| | Robert Korzeniowski | Poland | 3:42:22 | |
| | Aigars Fadejevs | Latvia | 3:43:40 | |
| | Joel Sanchez | Mexico | 3:44:36 | PB |
| 4 | Valentí Massana | Spain | 3:46:01 | |
| 5 | Nikolay Matyukhin | Russia | 3:46:37 | |
| 6 | Nathan Deakes | Australia | 3:47:29 | PB |
| 7 | Miguel Angel Rodriguez | Mexico | 3:48:12 | |
| 8 | Roman Magdziarczyk | Poland | 3:48:17 | PB |
| 9 | Modris Liepins | Latvia | 3:48:36 | |
| 10 | Yang Yongjian | China | 3:48:42 | PB |
| 11 | Aleksandar Raković | FR Yugoslavia | 3:49:16 | SB |
| 12 | Jesus Angel Garcia | Spain | 3:49:31 | |
| 13 | Wang Yinhang | China | 3:50:19 | PB |
| 14 | Denis Langlois | France | 3:52:56 | |
| 15 | Sergey Korepanov | Kazakhstan | 3:53:30 | |
| 16 | Milos Holusa | Czech Republic | 3:53:48 | SB |
| 17 | Peter Tichy | Slovakia | 3:54:47 | |
| 18 | Craig Barrett | New Zealand | 3:55:53 | |
| 19 | Mike Trautmann | Germany | 3:56:19 | |
| 20 | Stefan Malik | Slovakia | 3:56:44 | SB |
| 21 | Denis Trautmann | Germany | 3:58:18 | |
| 22 | Curt Clausen | United States | 3:58:39 | |
| 23 | Peter Korcok | Slovakia | 3:58:46 | |
| 24 | Mikel Odriozola | Spain | 3:59:50 | |
| 25 | Valeriy Borisov | Kazakhstan | 4:01:11 | |
| 26 | Vladimir Potemin | Russia | 4:02:38 | |
| 27 | Dion Russell | Australia | 4:02:50 | |
| 28 | Philip Dunn | United States | 4:03:05 | SB |
| 29 | Sylvain Caudron | France | 4:03:22 | |
| 30 | Daugvinas Zujus | Lithuania | 4:06:04 | |
| 31 | Andrew Hermann | United States | 4:07:18 | |
| 32 | Oleksiy Shelest | Ukraine | 4:07:39 | |
| 33 | Pedro Martins | Portugal | 4:08:13 | |
| 34 | Duane Cousins | Australia | 4:10:43 | |
| 35 | Ugis Bruvelis | Latvia | 4:11:41 | |
| 36 | Fumio Imamura | Japan | 4:13:28 | |
| 37 | Gyula Dudás | Hungary | 4:17:55 | |
| 38 | Jamie Costin | Ireland | 4:24:22 | |
| 39 | Chris Maddocks | Great Britain | 4:52:12 | |
| | Ivano Brugnetti | Italy | DNF | |
| | Robert Ihly | Germany | DNF | |
| | Spyridon Kastanis | Greece | DNF | |
| | Tomasz Lipiec | Poland | DNF | |
| | Giovanni Perricelli | Italy | DNF | |
| | René Piller | France | DNF | |
| | Valeriy Spitsyn | Russia | DNF | |
| | Theodoros Stamatopoulos | Greece | DNF | |
| | Arturo Di Mezza | Italy | DNF | |
| | Tim Berrett | Canada | DQ | |
| | Fedosei Ciumacenco | Moldova | DQ | |
| | Zoltán Czukor | Hungary | DQ | |
| | Viktor Ginko | Belarus | DQ | |
| | Arturo Huerta | Canada | DQ | |
| | Akihiko Koike | Japan | DQ | |
| | Valentin Kononen | Finland | DQ | |
| | Germán Sánchez | Mexico | DQ | |