title: Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
text: # Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
  
  The Men's 50 km race walk event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on Friday 29 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia, starting at 08:00h
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Robert Korzeniowski Poland |
  | - | - |
  | Silver | Aigars Fadejevs Latvia |
  | Bronze | Joel Sánchez Mexico |
  
  ## Abbreviations
  
  * All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
  
  | DNS | did not start |
  | - | - |
  | NM | no mark |
  | OR | olympic record |
  | WR | world record |
  | AR | area record |
  | NR | national record |
  | PB | personal best |
  | SB | season best |
  
  ## Records
  
  Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics :
  
  | World Record | Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) | 3:37.26 | 21 May 2000 | Moscow, Russia |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Olympic Record | Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) | 3:38.29 | 30 September 1988 | Seoul, South Korea |
  
  ## Results
  
  | Place | Athlete | Nation | Time | Record |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Robert Korzeniowski | Poland | 3:42:22 | |
  | 2 | Aigars Fadejevs | Latvia | 3:43:40 | |
  | 3 | Joel Sanchez | Mexico | 3:44:36 | PB |
  | 4 | Valentí Massana | Spain | 3:46:01 | |
  | 5 | Nikolay Matyukhin | Russia | 3:46:37 | |
  | 6 | Nathan Deakes | Australia | 3:47:29 | PB |
  | 7 | Miguel Angel Rodriguez | Mexico | 3:48:12 | |
  | 8 | Roman Magdziarczyk | Poland | 3:48:17 | PB |
  | 9 | Modris Liepins | Latvia | 3:48:36 | |
  | 10 | Yang Yongjian | China | 3:48:42 | PB |
  | 11 | Aleksandar Raković | FR Yugoslavia | 3:49:16 | SB |
  | 12 | Jesus Angel Garcia | Spain | 3:49:31 | |
  | 13 | Wang Yinhang | China | 3:50:19 | PB |
  | 14 | Denis Langlois | France | 3:52:56 | |
  | 15 | Sergey Korepanov | Kazakhstan | 3:53:30 | |
  | 16 | Milos Holusa | Czech Republic | 3:53:48 | SB |
  | 17 | Peter Tichy | Slovakia | 3:54:47 | |
  | 18 | Craig Barrett | New Zealand | 3:55:53 | |
  | 19 | Mike Trautmann | Germany | 3:56:19 | |
  | 20 | Stefan Malik | Slovakia | 3:56:44 | SB |
  | 21 | Denis Trautmann | Germany | 3:58:18 | |
  | 22 | Curt Clausen | United States | 3:58:39 | |
  | 23 | Peter Korcok | Slovakia | 3:58:46 | |
  | 24 | Mikel Odriozola | Spain | 3:59:50 | |
  | 25 | Valeriy Borisov | Kazakhstan | 4:01:11 | |
  | 26 | Vladimir Potemin | Russia | 4:02:38 | |
  | 27 | Dion Russell | Australia | 4:02:50 | |
  | 28 | Philip Dunn | United States | 4:03:05 | SB |
  | 29 | Sylvain Caudron | France | 4:03:22 | |
  | 30 | Daugvinas Zujus | Lithuania | 4:06:04 | |
  | 31 | Andrew Hermann | United States | 4:07:18 | |
  | 32 | Oleksiy Shelest | Ukraine | 4:07:39 | |
  | 33 | Pedro Martins | Portugal | 4:08:13 | |
  | 34 | Duane Cousins | Australia | 4:10:43 | |
  | 35 | Ugis Bruvelis | Latvia | 4:11:41 | |
  | 36 | Fumio Imamura | Japan | 4:13:28 | |
  | 37 | Gyula Dudás | Hungary | 4:17:55 | |
  | 38 | Jamie Costin | Ireland | 4:24:22 | |
  | 39 | Chris Maddocks | Great Britain | 4:52:12 | |
  | | Ivano Brugnetti | Italy | DNF | |
  | | Robert Ihly | Germany | DNF | |
  | | Spyridon Kastanis | Greece | DNF | |
  | | Tomasz Lipiec | Poland | DNF | |
  | | Giovanni Perricelli | Italy | DNF | |
  | | René Piller | France | DNF | |
  | | Valeriy Spitsyn | Russia | DNF | |
  | | Theodoros Stamatopoulos | Greece | DNF | |
  | | Arturo Di Mezza | Italy | DNF | |
  | | Tim Berrett | Canada | DQ | |
  | | Fedosei Ciumacenco | Moldova | DQ | |
  | | Zoltán Czukor | Hungary | DQ | |
  | | Viktor Ginko | Belarus | DQ | |
  | | Arturo Huerta | Canada | DQ | |
  | | Akihiko Koike | Japan | DQ | |
  | | Valentin Kononen | Finland | DQ | |
  | | Germán Sánchez | Mexico | DQ | |
  