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1988 Olympic Games Seoul - Men's 50 km walk

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Host City: Seoul, South Korea

Date Started: September 30, 1988

Date Finished: September 30, 1988

(Competitors: 42; Countries: 22)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul

Overview by IAAF

The pace was set by veteran Martin Bermudez (MEX) and his teammate Hernan Andrade, with Andrade leading at 20Km by 14 seconds in 1:29:47. The pack was another half minute behind. Andrade was disqualified at 22Km, leaving Bermudez a minute ahead at halfway in 1:51:58. The pack began to increase their pace, and were just six seconds behind Bermudez (2:14:25) at 30Km. The Mexican was soon engulfed by the leaders, and eventually finished 15th in a solid 3:49:22. Moscow winner Gauder, Weigel and Ivanenko then opened up a 30m gap, with Ivanenko taking a 10m lead at 40Km. The little (1.64/58Kg) Russian went away from the Germans in the last 10Km, producing a final 20Km of 1:23:58 to win by 27 seconds from Weigel, with Gauder third, well ahead of Potashov. The Russian summed up his position succinctly: “I am very satisfied.”

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The East Germany pair of Hartwig Gauder and Ronald Weigel had dominated many of the major championships in the 1980s. Gauder won the 1980 gold medal and the 1987 World Championships, while Weigel was the 1983 World Champion, and held the world record in 1988. By 30 km. the race had come down to a pack of five – Gauder and Weigel, Soviets Vyacheslav Ivanenko and Aleksandr Potashov, and Spain’s José Marín. By 40 km., Ivanenko had opened a small lead, and he gradually increased that lead over the closing 10 km. He had negatively split the race in the extreme, walking the second 25 km. 7½ minutes faster than the first.

Records

Standing records prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics
World Record	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:38.17	May 25, 1986	Potsdam, East Germany
Olympic Record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:47.26	August 11, 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Broken records during the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)	3:38.29	September 30, 1988	Seoul, South Korea

		Results

*50 km walk*	Men	Final	30 September

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.38.29	Vyacheslav Ivanenko	Soviet Union	URS	1 Mar 61
2	3.38.56	Ronald Weigel	East Germany	GDR	8 Aug 59
3	3.39.45	Hartwig Gauder	East Germany	GDR	10 Nov 54
4	3.41.00	Aleksandr Potashov	Soviet Union	URS	12 Mar 62
5	3.43.03	José Marín	Spain	ESP	20 Jan 50
6	3.44.07	Simon Baker	Australia	AUS	6 Feb 58
7	3.44.49	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden	SWE	29 Sep 54	NR
8	3.45.43	Raffaello Ducceschi	Italy	ITA	25 Feb 62
9	3.46.31	Dietmar Meisch	East Germany	GDR	10 Feb 59
10	3.47.04	Pavol Szikora	Czechoslovakia	TCH	26 Mar 52
11	3.47.14	Giovanni Perricelli	Italy	ITA	25 Aug 67
12	3.47.31	Pavol Blazek	Czechoslovakia	TCH	9 Jul 58
13	3.48.09	Jorge Llopart	Spain	ESP	5 May 52
14	3.48.15	François Lapointe	Canada	CAN	23 Aug 61
15	3.49.22	Martín Bermúdez	Mexico	MEX	19 Jul 58
16	3.50.28	Alain Lemercier	France	FRA	11 Jan 57
17	3.50.46	Roman Mrázek	Czechoslovakia	TCH	21 Jan 62
18	3.51.36	Reima Salonen	Finland	FIN	19 Nov 55
19	3.53.23	Andrew Jachno	Australia	AUS	13 Apr 62
20	3.53.34	Stefan Johansson	Sweden	SWE	11 Apr 67	NUR
21	3.55.57	José Pinto	Portugal	POR	19 Jun 56
22	3.56.55	Marco Evoniuk	United States	USA	30 Sep 57
23	3.57.44	Carl Schueler	United States	USA	26 Feb 56
24	3.58.31	Jacek Bednarek	Poland	POL	27 Jan 64
25	3.59.13	Manuel Alcalde	Spain	ESP	31 Dec 56
26	3.59.23	Vitaliy Popovich	Soviet Union	URS	22 Oct 62
27	3.59.30	Les Morton	Great Britain	GBR	1 Jul 58
28	4.00.07	Paul Blagg	Great Britain	GBR	23 Jan 60
29	4.00.07	Li Baojin	China	CHN	23 Nov 59
30	4.01.31	Héctor Moreno	Colombia	COL	8 Jun 63
31	4.03.12	Tadahiro Kosaka	Japan	JPN	10 Feb 60
32	4.04.56	Sandro Bellucci	Italy	ITA	21 Feb 55
33	4.08.08	Arturo Bravo	Mexico	MEX
34	4.12.49	Andy Kaestner	United States	USA	25 Aug 64
35	4.25.24	William Sawe	Kenya	KEN	5 Sep 55
	DQ	Herman Andrede	Mexico	MEX	1 Nov 60
	DNF	Godfried De Jonckheere	Belgium	BEL	1 Jul 52
	DQ	Eric Neisse	France	FRA	27 Nov 64
	DQ	Jean-Marie Neff	France	FRA	29 Sep 61
	DNF	Sándor Urbanik	Hungary	HUN	15 Dec 64
	DNF	Erling Andersen	Norway	NOR	22 Sep 60
	DNF	Jan Staaf	Sweden	SWE	11 Feb 62