Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The men's 50 kilometres walk race walk event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7. The event was held in a final only format.Results
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Don Thompson | | 4:25:30.0 | OR |
| John Ljunggren | | 4:25:47.0 | |
| Abdon Pamich | | 4:27:55.4 | |
| 4 | Oleksandr Shcherbyna | | 4:31:44.0 | |
| 5 | Tom Misson | | 4:33:03.0 | |
| 6 | Alex Oakley | | 4:33:08.6 | |
| 7 | Pino Dordoni | | 4:33:27.2 | |
| 8 | Zora Singh | | 4:37:44.6 | |
| 9 | Anatoly Vedyakov | | 4:39:57.6 | |
| 10 | Antonio De Gaetano | | 4:41:01.6 | |
| 11 | Ladislav Moc | | 4:42:33.6 | |
| 12 | George Hazle | | 4:43:18.8 | |
| 13 | Max Weber | | 4:44:47.0 | |
| 14 | Svätopluk Sýkora | | 4:46:14.6 | |
| 15 | Ajit Singh | | 4: 47:28.4 | |
| 16 | Horst Astroth | | 4:50:57.0 | |
| 17 | Josef Doležal | | 4:51:18.6 | |
| 18 | José Ribas | | 4:51:20.0 | |
| 19 | Ron Laird | | 4:53:21.6 | |
| 20 | Frank O'Reilly | | 4:54:40.0 | |
| 21 | Charles Sowa | | 4:57:00.4 | |
| 22 | Louis Marquis | | 5:00:13.0 | |
| 23 | Bruce MacDonald | | 5:00:47.6 | |
| 24 | John Allen | | 5:03:15.2 | |
| 25 | Alfred Leiser | | 5:06:55.0 | |
| 26 | Mohamed Ben Lazhar | | 5:07:57.4 | |
| 27 | René Charrière | | 5:09:00.8 | |
| 28 | Jacques Arnoux | | 5:10:22.0 | |
| - | Albert Johnson | | | DQ |
| - | Grigory Klimov | | | DQ |
| - | Guillermo Weller | | | DQ |
| - | Kurt Sakowski | | | DQ |
| - | Noel Freeman | | | DQ |
| - | Ronald Crawford | | | DQ |
| - | Erik Söderlund | | | DNF |
| - | Åke Söderlund | | | DNF |
| - | Norman Read | | | DNF |
| - | Naoui Zlassi | | | DNF |
| - | Béla Dinesz | | | DNF |
Key: OR = Olympic record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
