The Men's 50 km race walk at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 12 in the streets of Helsinki with the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Medalists
| Gold |  Sergey KirdyapkinRussia (RUS) |
| Silver | Aleksey Voyevodin Russia (RUS) |
| Bronze |  Alex SchwazerItaly (ITA) |
Abbreviations
- All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| WL | world leading |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |
Startlist
Intermediates
Finishing times
Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russia 3:38:08 (PB)- Aleksey Voyevodin, Russia 3:41:25
Alex Schwazer, Italy 3:41:54 (NR)
Trond Nymark, Norway 3:44:04 (NR)
Zhao Chengliang, China 3:44:45
Omar Zepeda, Mexico 3:49:01
Roman Magdziarczyk, Poland 3:49:55 (SB)
Yuki Yamazaki, Japan 3:51:15- Horacio Nava, Mexico 3:53:57
Peter Korčok, Slovakia 3:55:02
Tim Berrett, Canada 3:55:48
Julio Rene Martinez, Guatemala 3:57:56- Marco De Luca, Italy 3:58:32
Denis Langlois, France 3:59:31- Ken Akashi, Japan 3:59:35
Kim Dong-Young, South Korea 4:01:25 (SB)
Modris Liepinš, Latvia 4:01:54 (SB)- Miloš Bátovský, Slovakia 4:05:44
Sergey Korepanov, Kazakhstan 4:06:23 (SB)
Pedro Martins, Portugal 4:08:12
Antti Kempas, Finland 4:10:30- Jorge Costa, Portugal 4:22:17
Philip Dunn, United States 4:25:27
Athletes who did not finish
- Han Yucheng, China
- Xing Shucai, China
Oleksiy Kazanin, Ukraine- Rafal Fedaczynski, Poland
Andrey Stepanchuk, Belarus
Sérgio Galdino, Brazil- Luis Fernando García, Guatemala
Athletes disqualified
Fredrik Svensson, Sweden
Craig Barrett, New Zealand
Jesús Angel García, Spain- Jani Lehtinen, Finland
Aleksandar Raković, Serbia and Montenegro- Viktor Ginko, Belarus
Miloš Holuša, Czech Republic- Aigars Fadejevs, Latvia
- Mikel Odriozola, Spain
- Grzegorz Sudol, Poland
- Vladimir Kanaykin, Russia
- Diego Cafagna, Italy
- Miguel Solis, Mexico
- Yohan Diniz, France
