1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships

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

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Medalists

Gold Roland Wieser
Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Silver Pyotr Pochenchuk
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Bronze Anatoliy Solomin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Roland Wieser Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 1:23:11.5CR
Silver medal icon.svg Pyotr Pochenchuk Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:23:43.0
Bronze medal icon.svg Anatoliy Solomin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:24:11.5
4 Boris Yakovlev Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 1:24:27.9
5 José Marín Flag of Spain (1977-1981).svg  Spain 1:24:38.1
6 Maurizio Damilano Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:24:57.5
7 Hartwig Gauder Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 1:25:15.7
8 Roberto Buccione Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:25:40.9
9 Bohdan Bułakowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:25:56.8
10 Bo Gustafsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:26:13.5
11 Gérard Lelièvre Flag of France.svg  France 1:26:42.3
12 Alessandro Pezzatini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:26:44.2
13 Juraj Benčík Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:27:47.4
14 Svetozár Blažek Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:27:49.3
15 Lucien Faber Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 1:29:19.7
16 Stanisław Rola Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:29:22.0
17 Imre Stankovics Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:29:33.3
18 Štefan Petrík Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 1:30:08.4
19 Owe Hemmingsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:30:44.2
20 Alfons Schwarz Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 1:31:17.6
21 Roger-George Mills Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:31:52.5
22 Yancho Kamenov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 1:32:08.9
23 Erling Andersen Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:32:13.0
24 Alf Brandt Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:32:41.7
25 Brian Adams Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:33:08.2
26 Amos Seddom Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:34:17.8
27 Knut Arne Strømøy Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:36:01.9
Dominique Guebey Flag of France.svg  France DNF
Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller Flag of East Germany.svg  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