Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The men's 50 kilometres walk was the longer of the two men's race walking events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo, as well as the longest event on the program. It was held on 18 October 1964. 39 athletes from 20 nations entered, with 34 starting and 31 finishing.
Results
12 walkers beat the old Olympic record.| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Abdon Pamich | 4:11:12.4 OR | |
| 2 | Paul Nihill | 4:11:31.2 | |
| 3 | Ingvar Pettersson | 4:14:17.4 | |
| 4 | Burkhard Leuschke | 4:15:26.8 | |
| 5 | Bob Gardiner | 4:17:06.8 | |
| 6 | Christoph Höhne | 4:17:41.6 | |
| 7 | Anatoly Vediakov | 4:19:55.8 | |
| 8 | Kurt Sakowski | 4:20:31.0 | |
| 9 | Charles Sowa | 4:20:37.2 | |
| 10 | Don Thompson | 4:22:39.4 | |
| 11 | Ronald Crawford | 4:24:19.6 | |
| 12 | Gennady Agapov | 4:24:34.0 | |
| 13 | Ray Middleton | 4:25:49.2 | |
| 14 | Alex Oakley | 4:27:24.6 | |
| 15 | Henri Delerue | 4:27:47.6 | |
| 16 | John Ljunggren | 4:29:09.2 | |
| 17 | Ted Allsopp | 4:31:07.8 | |
| 18 | Eugeny Liungin | 4:32:01.6 | |
| 19 | István Havasi | 4:34:14.0 | |
| 20 | Alexander Bilek | 4:34:54.2 | |
| 21 | Christopher McCarthy | 4:35:41.6 | |
| 22 | Tadamasa Ejiri | 4:37:31.8 | |
| 23 | Erwin Stütz | 4:40:45.0 | |
| 24 | Malkolm Roy Syversson | 4:41:47.6 | |
| 25 | Kazuo Saito | 4:43:01.0 | |
| 26 | Bruce MacDonald | 4:45:10.4 | |
| 27 | Sumio Miwa | 4:52:00.6 | |
| 28 | Ilie Popa | 4:57:40.8 | |
| 29 | Mike Brodie | 4:57:41.0 | |
| 30 | Chedli El Marghni | 4:59:13.0 | |
| 31 | So Kam Tong | 5:07:53.2 | |
| — | Maung Rajan | Did not finish 1:48:39 at 20 km | |
| — | Mieczysław Rutyna | Disqualified 1:17:08 at 15 km | |
| — | Naceur Ben Messaoud | Disqualified 0:24:34 at 5 km | |
| — | Emil Dragan | Did not start | |
| — | Istvan Gori | Did not start | |
| — | Kim Tai Koo | Did not start | |
| — | Antal Kiss | Did not start | |
| — | Pak Tai Keun | Did not start |