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Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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.

Results※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Govindasamy Saravanan	Malaysia	4:10:05	NR
	Duane Cousins	Australia	4:10:30
	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

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