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.

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] The men's world record for the 50 km race walk was held by Denis Nizhegorodov, through his race of 3:34:14 in Cheboksary in 2008, until it was beaten by Yohann Diniz at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich, in a time of 3:32:33.