1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.[1]

Medalists edit

Gold Jorge Llopart
  Spain
Silver Venyamin Soldatenko
  Soviet Union
Bronze Jan Ornoch
  Poland

Results edit

Final edit

2 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Jorge Llopart   Spain 3:53:29.9 CR
  Venyamin Soldatenko   Soviet Union 3:55:12.1
  Jan Ornoch   Poland 3:55:15.9
4 Otto Barch   Soviet Union 3:57:23.7
5 Viktor Dorovskiy   Soviet Union 3:57:26.7
6 Vittorio Visini   Italy 3:57:42.8
7 Sandro Bellucci   Italy 3:58:25.9
8 Olaf Pilarski   East Germany 4:00:03.8
9 Mathias Kroel   East Germany 4:00:11.9
10 Mario Kreber   East Germany 4:01:03.7
11 Bengt Simonsen   Sweden 4:03:34.6
12 Gerhard Weidner   West Germany 4:04:01.9
13 Hans Binder   West Germany 4:04:12.4
14 Ján Dzurňák   Czechoslovakia 4:04:40.0
15 Paolo Grecucci   Italy 4:05:46.8
16 Ladislav Vitéz   Czechoslovakia 4:07:55.8
17 Lennart Lundgren   Sweden 4:09:54.7
18 Dominique Guebey   France 4:09:57.0
19 László Sátor   Hungary 4:10:22.4
20 Stig-Olaf Elofsson   Sweden 4:12:39.1
21 Seppo Immonen   Finland 4:16:52.5
22 Cornel Patusinschi   Romania 4:23:26.9
23 Ian Richards   Great Britain 4:27:09.3
David Cotton   Great Britain DNF
Lars Ove Moen   Norway DNF
Gérard Lelièvre   France DNF
Lucien Faber   Luxembourg DNF
José Marín   Spain DNF
Agustín Jorba   Spain DNF
Reima Salonen   Finland DNF
Bogusław Kmiecik   Poland DNF
Erling Andersen   Norway DNF
Jaromír Vaňous   Czechoslovakia DNF
Bohdan Bułakowski   Poland DNF
Heinrich Schubert   West Germany DQ
Yancho Kamenov   Bulgaria DQ

Participation edit

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References edit

  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014