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 and 4:07:00.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.
| Date | Name | Nationality | Time | OR | WR |
| 22 August | Alex Schwazer | 3:37:09 | OR |
Results
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Notes | |
| Alex Schwazer | 3:37:09 | |||
| Jared Tallent | 3:39:27 | PB | ||
| Denis Nizhegorodov | 3:40:14 | |||
| Jesús Ángel García | 3:44:08 | SB | ||
| Erik Tysse | 3:45:21 | PB | ||
| Horacio Nava | 3:45:21 | PB | ||
| Yuki Yamazaki | 3:45:47 | |||
| Rafał Fedaczyński | 3:46:51 | PB | ||
| Grzegorz Sudoł | 3:47:18 | |||
| 10 | Luke Adams | 3:47:45 | PB | |
| 11 | Antonio Pereira | 3:48:12 | NR | |
| 12 | André Höhne | 3:49:52 | ||
| 13 | Mikel Odriozola | 3:51:30 | ||
| 14 | Li Jianbo | 3:52:20 | ||
| 15 | Jarkko Kinnunen | 3:52:25 | PB | |
| 16 | Igors Kazakevics | 3:52:38 | PB | |
| 17 | Si Tianfeng | 3:52:58 | ||
| 18 | Jesús Sánchez | 3:53:58 | ||
| 19 | Marco de Luca | 3:54:47 | ||
| 20 | Antti Kempas | 3:55:19 | PB | |
| 21 | Zhao Chengliang | 3:56:47 | ||
| 22 | Luis Fernando García | 3:56:58 | SB | |
| 23 | Mario Iván Flores | 3:58:04 | ||
| 24 | Sergiy Budza | 3:58:21 | PB | |
| 25 | Fausto Quinde | 3:59:28 | PB | |
| 26 | Santiago Pérez | 3:59:41 | SB | |
| 27 | Oleksiy Shelest | 3:59:46 | ||
| 28 | Eddy Riva | 4:00:49 | ||
| 29 | Takayuki Tanii | 4:01:37 | ||
| 30 | Nenad Filipović | 4:02:16 | PB | |
| 31 | Kim Dong-Young | 4:02:32 | ||
| 32 | Tadas Suskevicius | 4:02:45 | ||
| 33 | Hatem Ghoula | 4:03:47 | ||
| 34 | Rodrigo Moreno | 4:03:52 | ||
| 35 | Milos Batovsky | 4:06:30 | ||
| 36 | Xavier Moreno | 4:07:04 | ||
| 37 | Konstadinos Stefanopoulos | 4:07:53 | ||
| 38 | Tim Berrett | 4:08:18 | ||
| 39 | Philip Dunn | 4:08:32 | ||
| 40 | Augusto Cardoso | 4:09:00 | ||
| 41 | Mário dos Santos | 4:10:25 | ||
| 42 | Ingus Janevics | 4:12:45 | ||
| 43 | Andrei Stsepanchuk | 4:14:09 | ||
| 44 | Jamie Costin | 4:15:16 | ||
| 45 | Roman Bilek | 4:18:32 | ||
| 46 | Zoltán Czukor | 4:20:07 | ||
| 47 | Kazimir Verkin | 4:21:26 | ||
| Oleksiy Kazanin | DNF | |||
| Yohan Diniz | DNF | |||
| Trond Nymark | DNF | |||
| Donatas Skarnulis | DNF | |||
| Sergey Kirdyapkin | DNF | |||
| Adam Rutter | DNF | |||
| Peter Korcok | DNF | |||
| Artur Brzozowski | DQ | |||
| Diego Cafagna | DQ | |||
| Colin Griffin | DQ | |||
| Salvador Mira | DQ | |||
| Darius Skarnulis | DQ | |||
| Igor Erokhin | DNS | |||
| Joao Vieira | DNS |
OR - Olympic Record / PB - Personal Best / SB - Season Best / NR - National Record / DNF - Did Not Finish / DQ - Disqualified / DNS - Did Not Start