50 kilometres race walk
The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it.
| Athletics 50 kilometre race walk | |
|---|---|
Men's racewalk. Walker at right appears to be illegal in that both feet are off the ground, but an infraction is only committed when loss of contact is visible to the human eye. | |
| World records | |
| Men | Yohann Diniz 3:32:33 (2014) |
| Women | Liu Hong 3:59:15 (2019) |
| Olympic records | |
| Men | Jared Tallent 3:36:53 (2012) |
50 kilometres is approximately 31 miles.
The 50 kilometres race walk was dropped from the Olympic program after the 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021 and will be replaced by a mixed team race in order to achieve gender equality.
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