1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, on 7 September 1974.

Medalists

Gold	Christoph Höhne East Germany
Silver	Otto Barch Soviet Union
Bronze	Peter Selzer East Germany

Results

Final

7 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	3:59:05.6	CR
	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:02:38.8
	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:04:28.4
4	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:05:43.6
5	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	4:09:31.6
6	Winfried Skotnicki	East Germany	4:10:19.0
7	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:10:52.4
8	Heinrich Schubert	West Germany	4:16:05.0
9	Bernhard Kannenberg	West Germany	4:21:47.8
10	Domenico Carpentieri	Italy	4:22:42.6
11	John Warhurst	Great Britain	4:26:34.6
12	Rosario Valore	Italy	4:30:22.8
13	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	4:31:08.8
14	Bob Dobson	Great Britain	4:35:26.4
15	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:36:18.2
	Milan Bartos	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	DNF
	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	DQ
	Sergey Bondarenko	Soviet Union	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

• Bulgaria (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• East Germany (3)
• Italy (3)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Sweden (3)
• Great Britain (2)
• West Germany (3)