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.

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

1. Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russia 3:38:08 (PB)
2. Aleksey Voyevodin, Russia 3:41:25
3. Alex Schwazer, Italy 3:41:54 (NR)
4. Trond Nymark, Norway 3:44:04 (NR)
5. Zhao Chengliang, China 3:44:45
6. Omar Zepeda, Mexico 3:49:01
7. Roman Magdziarczyk, Poland 3:49:55 (SB)
8. Yuki Yamazaki, Japan 3:51:15
9. Horacio Nava, Mexico 3:53:57
10. Peter Korčok, Slovakia 3:55:02
11. Tim Berrett, Canada 3:55:48
12. Julio Rene Martinez, Guatemala 3:57:56
13. Marco De Luca, Italy 3:58:32
14. Denis Langlois, France 3:59:31
15. Ken Akashi, Japan 3:59:35
16. Kim Dong-Young, South Korea 4:01:25 (SB)
17. Modris Liepinš, Latvia 4:01:54 (SB)
18. Miloš Bátovský, Slovakia 4:05:44
19. Sergey Korepanov, Kazakhstan 4:06:23 (SB)
20. Pedro Martins, Portugal 4:08:12
21. Antti Kempas, Finland 4:10:30
22. Jorge Costa, Portugal 4:22:17
23. Philip Dunn, United States 4:25:27

• 2005 Race Walking Year Ranking

• IAAF results