Men · Race Walking · All-Time
50 km Race Walk
3:32:33
Best mark
World record
3:38:17
Top 25 cutoff
25 rows
3:37:16
Median
Of the 25 best-by-athlete marks
12
Countries
RUS 7 · CHN 6 · 10 others
Performance distribution
25 athletes from 3:32:33 to 3:38:17 · median 3:37:16
Top 25 cutoff through history
How fast an athlete needed to be to make the list each year
Season lists are not yet published for this event. This chart fills in as they are imported from a permitted source.
World all-time top 25
Best by athlete · updated 1 Sep 2026 · Wikipedia (English) revision of 21 May 2026 · methodology
25 rows
| # | Athlete | Country | Mark | Date | Venue | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yohann Diniz WR | FRA | 3:32:33 | 15 Aug 2014 | Zürich | 36 |
| 2 | Denis Nizhegorodov | RUS | 3:34:14 | 11 May 2008 | Cheboksary | 27 |
| 3 | Matej Tóth | SVK | 3:34:38 | 21 Mar 2015 | Dudince | 32 |
| 4 | Nathan Deakes | AUS | 3:35:47 | 2 Dec 2006 | Geelong | 29 |
| 5 | Robert Korzeniowski | POL | 3:36:03 | 27 Aug 2003 | Saint-Denis | 35 |
| 6 | Alex Schwazer | ITA | 3:36:04 | 11 Feb 2007 | Rosignano Solvay | 22 |
| 7 | Yu Chaohong | CHN | 3:36:06 | 22 Oct 2005 | Nanjing | 29 |
| 8 | Zhao Chengliang | CHN | 3:36:13 | 22 Oct 2005 | Nanjing | 21 |
| 9 | Han Yucheng | CHN | 3:36:20 | 27 Feb 2005 | Nanning | 26 |
| 10 | German Skurygin | RUS | 3:36:42 | 27 Aug 2003 | Saint-Denis | 39 |
| 11 | Masatora Kawano | JPN | 3:36:45 | 27 Oct 2019 | Takahata | 21 |
| 12 | Jared Tallent | AUS | 3:36:53 | 11 Aug 2012 | London | 27 |
| 13 | Si Tianfeng | CHN | 3:37:16 | 11 Aug 2012 | London | 28 |
| 14 | Valeriy Spitsyn | RUS | 3:37:26 | 21 May 2000 | Moskva | 34 |
| 15 | Satoshi Maruo | JPN | 3:37:39 | 27 Oct 2019 | Takahata | 27 |
| 16 | Andrey Perlov | URS | 3:37:41 | 5 Aug 1989 | Leningrad | 27 |
| 16 | Ivan Noskov | RUS | 3:37:41 | 15 Aug 2014 | Zürich | 26 |
| 18 | Andreas Erm | GER | 3:37:46 | 27 Aug 2003 | Saint-Denis | 27 |
| 19 | Robert Heffernan | IRL | 3:37:54 | 11 Aug 2012 | London | 34 |
| 20 | Xing Shucai | CHN | 3:37:58 | 27 Feb 2005 | Nanning | 20 |
| 21 | Aleksey Voyevodin | RUS | 3:38:01 | 27 Aug 2003 | Saint-Denis | 33 |
| 22 | Wang Qin | CHN | 3:38:02 | 9 Mar 2019 | Huangshan | 24 |
| 23 | Sergey Kirdyapkin | RUS | 3:38:08 | 12 Aug 2005 | Helsinki | 25 |
| 23 | Igor Yerokhin | RUS | 3:38:08 | 8 Jun 2008 | Saransk | 22 |
| 25 | Ronald Weigel | GDR | 3:38:17 | 25 May 1986 | Potsdam | 26 |