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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

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Govindasamy Saravanan  Malaysia 4:10:05 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Duane Cousins  Australia 4:10:30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dominic McGrath  Australia 4:12:52
4 Steven Hollier  England 4:18:41
5 Mark Easton  England 4:22:23
6 Graham White  Scotland 4:30:17
7 Kannian Pushparajan  Malaysia 4:31:22
8 Chris Cheeseman  England 4:38:36
9 Thirukumaran Balaysendaran  Malaysia 4:44:33
10 Tony Sargisson  New Zealand 4:45:04
Craig Barrett  New Zealand DNF
Tim Berrett  Canada DNF
Dion Russell  Australia DNF

References

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