1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, on 14 September 1962. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Abdon Pamich   Italy
Silver	Grigoriy Panichkin   Soviet Union
Bronze	Donald Thompson   Great Britain

Results

Final

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:19:46.6
	Grigoriy Panichkin	Soviet Union	4:24:35.6
	Donald Thompson	Great Britain	4:29:00.2
4	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:29:37.8
5	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:30:19.8
6	István Havasi	Hungary	4:34:14.8
7	Hannes Koch	East Germany	4:38:34.0
8	Horst Astroth	East Germany	4:39:49.0
9	Ingvar Green	Sweden	4:40:08.0
10	Joël Vanderhaegen	Belgium	4:41:31.0
11	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:42:23.0
12	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	4:48:31.6
13	Eric Hall	Great Britain	4:55:47.0
14	Alfred Leiser	Switzerland	4:57:28.0
15	Stefano Serchinic	Italy	5:13:20.4
	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	DNF
	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	DNF
	Elio Massi	Italy	DNF
	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	DNF
	Grigory Klimov	Soviet Union	DQ
	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

•   Belgium (1)
•   Czechoslovakia (2)
•   East Germany (3)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Italy (3)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Soviet Union (3)
•   Sweden (2)
•    Switzerland (2)
•   Great Britain (3)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014