1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
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The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.[1]
Medalists
Gold | Roland Wieser East Germany |
Silver | Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union |
Bronze | Anatoliy Solomin Soviet Union |
Results
Final
30 August
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Roland Wieser | East Germany | 1:23:11.5 | CR | |
Pyotr Pochenchuk | Soviet Union | 1:23:43.0 | ||
Anatoliy Solomin | Soviet Union | 1:24:11.5 | ||
4 | Boris Yakovlev | Soviet Union | 1:24:27.9 | |
5 | José Marín | Spain | 1:24:38.1 | |
6 | Maurizio Damilano | Italy | 1:24:57.5 | |
7 | Hartwig Gauder | East Germany | 1:25:15.7 | |
8 | Roberto Buccione | Italy | 1:25:40.9 | |
9 | Bohdan Bułakowski | Poland | 1:25:56.8 | |
10 | Bo Gustafsson | Sweden | 1:26:13.5 | |
11 | Gérard Lelièvre | France | 1:26:42.3 | |
12 | Alessandro Pezzatini | Italy | 1:26:44.2 | |
13 | Juraj Benčík | Czechoslovakia | 1:27:47.4 | |
14 | Svetozár Blažek | Czechoslovakia | 1:27:49.3 | |
15 | Lucien Faber | Luxembourg | 1:29:19.7 | |
16 | Stanisław Rola | Poland | 1:29:22.0 | |
17 | Imre Stankovics | Hungary | 1:29:33.3 | |
18 | Štefan Petrík | Czechoslovakia | 1:30:08.4 | |
19 | Owe Hemmingsson | Sweden | 1:30:44.2 | |
20 | Alfons Schwarz | West Germany | 1:31:17.6 | |
21 | Roger-George Mills | Great Britain | 1:31:52.5 | |
22 | Yancho Kamenov | Bulgaria | 1:32:08.9 | |
23 | Erling Andersen | Norway | 1:32:13.0 | |
24 | Alf Brandt | Sweden | 1:32:41.7 | |
25 | Brian Adams | Great Britain | 1:33:08.2 | |
26 | Amos Seddom | Great Britain | 1:34:17.8 | |
27 | Knut Arne Strømøy | Norway | 1:36:01.9 | |
Dominique Guebey | France | DNF | ||
Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller | East Germany | DQ |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.
- Bulgaria (1)
- Czechoslovakia (3)
- East Germany (3)
- France (2)
- Hungary (1)
- Italy (3)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Norway (2)
- Poland (2)
- Soviet Union (3)
- Spain (1)
- Sweden (3)
- Great Britain (3)
- West Germany (1)
References
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014