Back 50 كيلومترا مشي Arabic 50 quilòmetres marxa Catalan Chůze na 50 km Czech 50-km-Gehen German 50-kilometra marŝkurado Esperanto 50 km käimine Estonian 50 kilometrin kävely Finnish 50 kilomètres marche French Marcia 50 km Italian 50キロメートル競歩 Japanese
| 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.[1] | |
| 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) |
The 50 kilometre race walk[2] 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.
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 was replaced by a mixed team race, the marathon race walk mixed relay in order to achieve gender equality.[citation needed]
- ^ Belson, Ken. "One Step at a Time? It’s More Complicated Than That" The New York Times (August 10, 2012)
- ^ "50 Kilometres Race Walk". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved September 7, 2020.