Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the Commonwealth Games

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 21 September in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time this distance was held at the Commonwealth Games, together with 20 kilometres walk replacing the 30 kilometres walk event.

The race was led by Craig Barrett of New Zealand until one kilometre before the finishing line when he collapsed from dehydration. Govindasamy Saravanan from Malaysia went on to win gaining his country's first ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in athletics. [1]

Results

[2]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Govindasamy Saravanan Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia 4:10:05 NR
Silver medal icon.svg Duane Cousins Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 4:10:30
Bronze medal icon.svg Dominic McGrath Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 4:12:52
4 Steven Hollier Flag of England.svg  England 4:18:41
5 Mark Easton Flag of England.svg  England 4:22:23
6 Graham White Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 4:30:17
7 Kannian Pushparajan Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia 4:31:22
8 Chris Cheeseman Flag of England.svg  England 4:38:36
9 Thirukumaran Balaysendaran Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia 4:44:33
10 Tony Sargisson Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 4:45:04
Craig Barrett Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand DNF
Tim Berrett Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada DNF
Dion Russell Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia DNF

References

  1. Saravanan Wins Malaysia's First Ever Gold in Athletics
  2. "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2014-07-12.