# Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 22 at the Beijing National Stadium.
The qualifying standards were 4:00:00 (A standard) and 4:07:00 (B standard).

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) | 3:34:14 | Cheboksary, Russia | 11 May 2008 |
| Olympic record | Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) | 3:38:29 | Seoul, South Korea | 30 September 1988 |
The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
| 22 August | Alex Schwazer | Italy | 3:37:09 | OR | |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | | Notes |
| | Alex Schwazer | Italy | 3:37:09 | OR |
| | Jared Tallent | Australia | 3:39:27 | PB |
| | Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia | 3:40:14 | |
| 4 | Jesús Ángel García | Spain | 3:44:08 | SB |
| 5 | Erik Tysse | Norway | 3:45:21 | PB |
| 6 | Horacio Nava | Mexico | 3:45:21 | PB |
| 7 | Yuki Yamazaki | Japan | 3:45:47 | |
| 8 | Rafał Fedaczyński | Poland | 3:46:51 | PB |
| 9 | Grzegorz Sudoł | Poland | 3:47:18 | |
| 10 | Luke Adams | Australia | 3:47:45 | PB |
| 11 | Antonio Pereira | Portugal | 3:48:12 | NR |
| 12 | André Höhne | Germany | 3:49:52 | |
| 13 | Mikel Odriozola | Spain | 3:51:30 | |
| 14 | Li Jianbo | China | 3:52:20 | |
| 15 | Jarkko Kinnunen | Finland | 3:52:25 | PB |
| 16 | Igors Kazakevics | Latvia | 3:52:38 | PB |
| 17 | Si Tianfeng | China | 3:52:58 | |
| 18 | Jesús Sánchez | Mexico | 3:53:58 | |
| 19 | Marco de Luca | Italy | 3:54:47 | |
| 20 | Antti Kempas | Finland | 3:55:19 | PB |
| 21 | Zhao Chengliang | China | 3:56:47 | |
| 22 | Luis Fernando García | Guatemala | 3:56:58 | SB |
| 23 | Mario Iván Flores | Mexico | 3:58:04 | |
| 24 | Sergiy Budza | Ukraine | 3:58:21 | PB |
| 25 | Fausto Quinde | Ecuador | 3:59:28 | PB |
| 26 | Santiago Pérez | Spain | 3:59:41 | SB |
| 27 | Oleksiy Shelest | Ukraine | 3:59:46 | |
| 28 | Eddy Riva | France | 4:00:49 | |
| 29 | Takayuki Tanii | Japan | 4:01:37 | |
| 30 | Nenad Filipović | Serbia | 4:02:16 | PB |
| 31 | Kim Dong-Young | South Korea | 4:02:32 | |
| 32 | Tadas Suskevicius | Lithuania | 4:02:45 | |
| 33 | Hatem Ghoula | Tunisia | 4:03:47 | |
| 34 | Rodrigo Moreno | Colombia | 4:03:52 | |
| 35 | Milos Batovsky | Slovakia | 4:06:30 | |
| 36 | Xavier Moreno | Ecuador | 4:07:04 | |
| 37 | Konstadinos Stefanopoulos | Greece | 4:07:53 | |
| 38 | Tim Berrett | Canada | 4:08:18 | |
| 39 | Philip Dunn | United States | 4:08:32 | |
| 40 | Augusto Cardoso | Portugal | 4:09:00 | |
| 41 | Mário dos Santos | Brazil | 4:10:25 | |
| 42 | Ingus Janevics | Latvia | 4:12:45 | |
| 43 | Andrei Stsepanchuk | Belarus | 4:14:09 | |
| 44 | Jamie Costin | Ireland | 4:15:16 | |
| 45 | Roman Bilek | Czech Republic | 4:18:32 | |
| 46 | Zoltán Czukor | Hungary | 4:20:07 | |
| 47 | Kazimir Verkin | Slovakia | 4:21:26 | |
| | Oleksiy Kazanin | Ukraine | DNF | |
| | Yohan Diniz | France | DNF | |
| | Trond Nymark | Norway | DNF | |
| | Donatas Skarnulis | Lithuania | DNF | |
| | Sergey Kirdyapkin | Russia | DNF | |
| | Adam Rutter | Australia | DNF | |
| | Peter Korcok | Slovakia | DNF | |
| | Artur Brzozowski | Poland | DQ | |
| | Diego Cafagna | Italy | DQ | |
| | Colin Griffin | Ireland | DQ | |
| | Salvador Mira | El Salvador | DQ | |
| | Darius Skarnulis | Lithuania | DQ | |
| | Igor Erokhin | Russia | DNS | |
| | Joao Vieira | Portugal | DNS | |
OR - Olympic Record / PB - Personal Best / SB - Season Best / NR - National Record / DNF - Did Not Finish / DQ - Disqualified / DNS - Did Not Start

### Intermediates

| Intermediate | Athlete | Country | Mark |
| 10 km | 1. Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia | 44:39 |
| 10 km | 2. Adam Rutter | Australia | s.t. |
| 10 km | 3. Jianbo Li | China | s.t. |
| 10 km | 4. Jared Tallent | Australia | +0:01 |
| 10 km | 5. Alex Schwazer | Italy | s.t. |
| 20 km | 1. Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia | 1:27:38 |
| 20 km | 2. Jianbo Li | China | +0:01 |
| 20 km | 3. Jared Tallent | Australia | s.t. |
| 20 km | 4. Alex Schwazer | Italy | s.t. |
| 20 km | 5. Yohan Diniz | France | +0:08 |
| 30 km | 1. Jared Tallent | Australia | 2:10:38 |
| 30 km | 2. Alex Schwazer | Italy | +0:01 |
| 30 km | 3. Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia | s.t. |
| 30 km | 4. Jianbo Li | China | s.t. |
| 30 km | 5. Yohan Diniz | France | +1:48 |
| 40 km | 1. Jared Tallent | Australia | 2:54:36 |
| 40 km | 2. Alex Schwazer | Italy | s.t. |
| 40 km | 3. Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia | s.t. |
| 40 km | 4. Jianbo Li | China | +1:58 |
| 40 km | 5. Grzegorz Sudol | Poland | +3:56 |
s.t. - same time.