1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1983 World Championships held on 12 August 1983 in Helsinki, Finland.

Gold	Ronald Weigel East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Josep Marín Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Sergey Yung Soviet Union (URS)

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Josep Marín (ESP)	3:40:46	March 13, 1983	Valencia, Spain
Event Record	New event

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:43:08
	Josep Marín (ESP)	3:46:32	^[1]^[2]^{[note 1]}
	Sergey Yung (URS)	3:49:03
4	Reima Salonen (FIN)	3:52:53
5	Raúl González (MEX)	3:53:51
6	François Lapointe (CAN)	3:53:57
7	Sandro Bellucci (ITA)	3:55:38
8	Viktor Dorovskikh (URS)	3:56:02
9	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	3:56:57
10	Bengt Simonsen (SWE)	3:57:25
11	Pavol Szikora (TCH)	3:59:03
12	László Sator (HUN)	3:59:27
13	Lars Ove Moen (NOR)	4:00:50
14	Seppo Immonen (FIN)	4:02:00
15	Manuel Alcalde (ESP)	4:03:10
16	José Pinto (POR)	4:03:47
17	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	4:06:49
18	Karl Degener (FRG)	4:06:51
19	Lennart Mether (SWE)	4:07:46
20	Miklós Domján (HUN)	4:08:11
21	Felix Goméz (MEX)	4:09:22
22	Dominique Guebey (FRA)	4:09:40
23	Dan O'Connor (USA)	4:18:41
24	Dai Mingxi (CHN)	4:30:28
25	Zhang Fuxin (CHN)	4:35:46
26	Osvaldo Morejón (BOL)	4:35:58
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)	DNF
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Jim Heiring (USA)	DNF
—	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	DNF
—	Jordi Llopart (ESP)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Nikolay Udovenko (URS)	DSQ
—	Bogusław Duda (POL)	DSQ
—	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	DSQ
—	Erling Andersen (NOR)	DSQ
—	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	DSQ

Medalists