1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 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
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 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 20 kilometres race walk at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 19 August 1958.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Stanley Vickers  United Kingdom
Silver	Leonid Spirin  Soviet Union
Bronze	Lennart Back  Sweden

Results

Final

19 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stanley Vickers	United Kingdom	1:33:09.0	CR
	Leonid Spirin	Soviet Union	1:35:04.2
	Lennart Back	Sweden	1:35:22.2
4	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	1:35:38.4
5	Louis Marquis	Switzerland	1:35:59.4
6	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy	1:36:16.2
7	Siegfried Lefanczik	East Germany	1:39:18.6
8	Gabriel Reymond	Switzerland	1:39:18.6
9	Franciszek Szyszka	Poland	1:39:44.0
10	Georges Attane	France	1:40:34.6
11	Albert Johnson	United Kingdom	1:41:54.4
12	Jerzy Hausleber	Poland	1:43:53.2
13	Dieter Lindner	East Germany	DQ
14	Bruno Junk	Soviet Union	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

East Germany (2)  France (1)

Italy (1)  Poland (2)

Soviet Union (2)  Sweden (2)

Switzerland (2)  United Kingdom (2)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014