The men's 50 kilometres event was part of the track cycling programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

[1] The Vélodrome de Vincennes track was a 500-metre (1,640 ft) loop.

The Dutch team was represented by two cyclists, Ko Willems and Jan Maas (who was a late replacement for Jonkheer Bosch van Drakenstein).

Their tactic was that Maas would attack, so that the other cyclists would be tired, after which Willems, the better sprinter, could win the race.

In the last loop, the sprint started, with Wyld, Alden and De Martino.