1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.[1]

Events at the
1978 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m steeplechasemen
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Pentathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

Medalists
GoldJorge Llopart
 Spain
SilverVenyamin Soldatenko
 Soviet Union
BronzeJan Ornoch
 Poland

Results

Final

2 September

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Jorge Llopart Spain3:53:29.9CR
Venyamin Soldatenko Soviet Union3:55:12.1
Jan Ornoch Poland3:55:15.9
4Otto Barch Soviet Union3:57:23.7
5Viktor Dorovskiy Soviet Union3:57:26.7
6Vittorio Visini Italy3:57:42.8
7Alessandro Bellucci Italy3:58:25.9
8Olaf Pilarski East Germany4:00:03.8
9Mathias Kroel East Germany4:00:11.9
10Mario Kreber East Germany4:01:03.7
11Bengt Simonsen Sweden4:03:34.6
12Gerhard Weidner West Germany4:04:01.9
13Hans Binder West Germany4:04:12.4
14Ján Dzurňák Czechoslovakia4:04:40.0
15Paolo Grecucci Italy4:05:46.8
16Ladislav Vitéz Czechoslovakia4:07:55.8
17Lennart Lundgren Sweden4:09:54.7
18Dominique Guebey France4:09:57.0
19László Sátor Hungary4:10:22.4
20Stig-Olaf Elofsson Sweden4:12:39.1
21Seppo Immonen Finland4:16:52.5
22Cornel Patusinschi Romania4:23:26.9
23Ian Richards Great Britain4:27:09.3
David Cotton Great BritainDNF
Lars Ove Moen NorwayDNF
Gérard Lelièvre FranceDNF
Lucien Faber LuxembourgDNF
José Marín SpainDNF
Agustín Jorba SpainDNF
Reima Salonen FinlandDNF
Bogusław Kmiecik PolandDNF
Erling Andersen NorwayDNF
Jaromír Vaňous CzechoslovakiaDNF
Bohdan Bułakowski PolandDNF
Heinrich Schubert West GermanyDQ
Yancho Kamenov BulgariaDQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 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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