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Men's 50 kilometres walk world record progression

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The following table shows the world record progression in the men's 50 kilometres walk, as recognised by the IAAF.[1]

World record progression

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TimeAthleteDatePlace
4:40:15 Hermann Müller (GER)1921-09-07Munich, Germany
4:36:22 Karl Hähnel (GER)1924-09-24Berlin, Germany
4:34:03 Paul Sievert (GER)1924-10-05Munich, Germany
4:30:22 Romano Vecchietti (ITA)1928-09-16Rome, Italy
4:26:41 Edgar Bruun (NOR)1936-06-28Oslo, Norway
4:24:47 Viggo Ingvorsen (DEN)1941-08-17Odense, Denmark
4:23:40 Josef Doležal (TCH)1946-08-04Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia
4:23:14 Josef Doležal (TCH)1952-08-24Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia
4:20:30 Vladimir Ukhov (URS)1952-08-29Leningrad, Soviet Union
4:16:06 Josef Doležal (TCH)1954-09-12Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia
4:07:29 Anatoliy Yegorov (URS)1955-11-17Tbilisi, Soviet Union
4:05:13 Grigory Klimov (URS)1956-08-10Moscow, Soviet Union
4:03:53 Anatoly Vedyakov (URS)1959-08-13Moscow, Soviet Union
4:03:02 Abdon Pamich (ITA)1960-10-16Ponte San Pietro, Italy
4:01:39 Grigory Klimov (URS)1961-08-17Leningrad, Soviet Union
4:00:50 Mikhail Lavrov (URS)1961-09-05Kazan, Soviet Union
3:55:36 Gennadiy Agapov (URS)1965-10-17Alma Ata, Soviet Union
3:52:45 Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)1972-05-27Bremen, West Germany
3:45:52 Raúl González (MEX)1978-04-23Mixhuca, Mexico
3:41:20 Raúl González (MEX)1978-06-11Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia
3:40:46 Josep Marín (ESP)1983-03-13Valencia, Spain
3:38:31 Ronald Weigel (GDR)1984-07-20Berlin, East Germany
3:38:17 Ronald Weigel (GDR)1986-05-25Potsdam, East Germany
3:37:41 Andrey Perlov (URS)1989-08-05Leningrad, Soviet Union
3:37:26 Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)2000-05-21Moscow, Russia
3:36:39 Robert Korzeniowski (POL)2002-08-08Munich, Germany
3:36:03 Robert Korzeniowski (POL)2003-08-27Paris, France
3:35:47 Nathan Deakes (AUS)2006-12-02Geelong, Australia
3:34:14 Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)2008-05-11Cheboksary, Russia
3:32:33 Yohann Diniz (FRA)2014-08-15Zürich, Switzerland
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The 3:35:29 by Russia's Denis Nizhegorodov set in Cheboksary on June 13, 2004 was not ratified by the IAAF as a World Record because no EPO test was carried out afterwards.

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