| Men's 30 kilometres walk at the Commonwealth Games |
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| Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 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 | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4×100 m relay | men | women |
| 4×400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| 30 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 30 kilometres walk event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [1] [2] [3]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olly Flynn | 2:22:03.70 | |||
| Willi Sawall | 2:22:58.58 | |||
| Tim Erickson | 2:26:33.97 | |||
| 4 | Brian Adams | 2:29:41.45 | ||
| 5 | Amos Seddon | 2:29:57.53 | ||
| 6 | Helmut Boeck | 2:31:20.85 | ||
| 7 | Graham Seatter | 2:31:48.92 | ||
| 8 | Graham Young | 2:33:14.91 | ||
| 9 | Marcel Jobin | 2:35:01.32 | ||
| 10 | Elisha Kasuku | 2:43:25.22 | ||
| 11 | Rashid Chege | 2:45:12.53 | ||
| 12 | Vellasamy Subramaniam | 2:56:07.11 | ||
| John Callow | DNF | |||
| Robert Lambie | DNF | |||
| David Munyao | DNF | |||
| Mike Parker | DNF |