1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the European Athletics Championships

The Men's 50 km walk event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary was held on Friday August 21, 1998.

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski Poland (POL)
Silver	Valentin Kononen Finland (FIN)
Bronze	Andrey Plotnikov Russia (RUS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Andrey Perlov  (URS)	3:37:41	August 5, 1989	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Event Record	Hartwig Gauder  (GDR)	3:40:55	August 31, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski  (POL)	3:43:51	SB
	Valentin Kononen  (FIN)	3:44:29	SB
	Andrey Plotnikov  (RUS)	3:45:53
4	Mikel Odriozola  (ESP)	3:47:24	PB
5	Tomasz Lipiec  (POL)	3:48:05
6	Santiago Pérez  (ESP)	3:48:17
7	Arturo Di Mezza  (ITA)	3:48:49	SB
8	Denis Trautmann  (GER)	3:49:46	PB
9	René Piller  (FRA)	3:51:03
10	Sylvain Caudron  (FRA)	3:54:43
11	Robert Ihly  (GER)	3:55:31
12	Peter Tichy  (SVK)	3:55:37	SB
13	Štefan Malík  (SVK)	3:57:35
14	Spiridon Kastanis  (GRE)	3:58:28	SB
15	Antero Lindman  (FIN)	3:58:45
16	Nikolay Matyukhin  (RUS)	3:59:23
17	José Magalhaes  (POR)	3:59:46
18	Miloš Holuša  (CZE)	4:01:38
19	Trond Nymark  (NOR)	4:02:33
20	Bengt Bengtsson  (SWE)	4:02:43
21	Peter Korčok  (SVK)	4:04:17
22	Ervin Leczky  (HUN)	4:04:54	SB
23	Jacob Sørensen  (DEN)	4:05:25
24	Zoltán Czukor  (HUN)	4:09:02
25	Klaus Jensen  (DEN)	4:15:49	PB
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Oleg Ishutkin  (RUS)	DSQ
—	Oleg Ginko  (BLR)	DSQ
—	Axel Noack  (GER)	DSQ
—	Jesús Ángel García  (ESP)	DSQ
—	Peter Ferrari  (SWE)	DSQ
—	Vitaliy Gordey  (BLR)	DSQ
—	Gabor Lengyel  (HUN)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Yevgeniy Misyulya  (BLR)	DNF
—	Modris Liepiņš  (LAT)	DNF
—	Jan Staaf  (SWE)	DNF
—	Pascal Charriere  (SUI)	DNF
—	Giovanni Perricelli  (ITA)	DNF
—	Aleksandar Raković  (SCG)	DNF
—	Stanisław Stosik  (POL)	DNF
—	Daugvinas Zujus  (LTU)	DNF
—	Alessandro Mistretta  (ITA)	DNF
—	Thierry Toutain  (FRA)	DNF

See also

• 1998 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Results
• todor66
• athletix ^[usurped]