| Event: | Men's 50 kilometres walk |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The Men's 50 km walk event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary was held on Friday August 21, 1998.
| Gold |  Robert KorzeniowskiPoland (POL) | |
| Silver |  Valentin KononenFinland (FIN) | |
| Bronze |  Andrey PlotnikovRussia (RUS) |
| DNS | did not start | |
| NM | no mark | |
| WR | world record | |
| AR | area record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best |
| Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:37:41 | August 5, 1989 | Leningrad, Soviet Union | |||
| 3:40:55 | August 31, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany | |||
| Rank | Athlete | Time | Note | |
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| 3:43:51 | SB | |||
| 3:44:29 | SB | |||
| 3:45:53 | ||||
| 4 | 3:47:24 | PB | ||
| 5 | 3:48:05 | |||
| 6 | 3:48:17 | |||
| 7 | 3:48:49 | SB | ||
| 8 | 3:49:46 | PB | ||
| 9 | 3:51:03 | |||
| 10 | 3:54:43 | |||
| 11 | 3:55:31 | |||
| 12 | 3:55:37 | SB | ||
| 13 | 3:57:35 | |||
| 14 | 3:58:28 | SB | ||
| 15 | 3:58:45 | |||
| 16 | 3:59:23 | |||
| 17 | 3:59:46 | |||
| 18 | 4:01:38 | |||
| 19 | 4:02:33 | |||
| 20 | 4:02:43 | |||
| 21 | 4:04:17 | |||
| 22 | 4:04:54 | SB | ||
| 23 | 4:05:25 | |||
| 24 | 4:09:02 | |||
| 25 | 4:15:49 | PB | ||
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) | ||||
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| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) | ||||
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