1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the
1978 European
Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
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
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.[1]

Medalists

Gold Roland Wieser
 East Germany
Silver Pyotr Pochenchuk
 Soviet Union
Bronze Anatoliy Solomin
 Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Roland Wieser  East Germany 1:23:11.5 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union 1:23:43.0
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Anatoliy Solomin  Soviet Union 1:24:11.5
4 Boris Yakovlev  Soviet Union 1:24:27.9
5 José Marín  Spain 1:24:38.1
6 Maurizio Damilano  Italy 1:24:57.5
7 Hartwig Gauder  East Germany 1:25:15.7
8 Roberto Buccione  Italy 1:25:40.9
9 Bohdan Bułakowski  Poland 1:25:56.8
10 Bo Gustafsson  Sweden 1:26:13.5
11 Gérard Lelièvre  France 1:26:42.3
12 Alessandro Pezzatini  Italy 1:26:44.2
13 Juraj Benčík  Czechoslovakia 1:27:47.4
14 Svetozár Blažek  Czechoslovakia 1:27:49.3
15 Lucien Faber  Luxembourg 1:29:19.7
16 Stanisław Rola  Poland 1:29:22.0
17 Imre Stankovics  Hungary 1:29:33.3
18 Štefan Petrík  Czechoslovakia 1:30:08.4
19 Owe Hemmingsson  Sweden 1:30:44.2
20 Alfons Schwarz  West Germany 1:31:17.6
21 Roger-George Mills  United Kingdom 1:31:52.5
22 Yancho Kamenov  Bulgaria 1:32:08.9
23 Erling Andersen  Norway 1:32:13.0
24 Alf Brandt  Sweden 1:32:41.7
25 Brian Adams  United Kingdom 1:33:08.2
26 Amos Seddom  United Kingdom 1:34:17.8
27 Knut Arne Strømøy  Norway 1:36:01.9
28 Dominique Guebey  France DNF
29 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014
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