1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	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
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 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, on 16 September 1969.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Paul Nihill United Kingdom
Silver	Leonida Caraiosifoglu Romania
Bronze	Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union

Results

Final

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Paul Nihill	United Kingdom	1:30:48.0
02 !	Leonida Caraiosifoglu	Romania	1:31:06.4
03 !	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:31:20.2
4	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:32:04.0
5	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:33:04.0
6	Abdon Pamich	Italy	1:34:15.0
7	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:35:19.0
8	John Webb	United Kingdom	1:35:51.0
9	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1:36:26.8
10	Pasquale Busca	Italy	1:37:11.0
11	Victor Schuch	Romania	1:37:42.0
12	Gabriele Nigro	Italy	1:38:15.0
13	Peter Fullager	United Kingdom	1:38:24.0
14	Vasile Ilie	Romania	1:43:23.0
15	János Dalmati	Hungary	1:43:53.8
16	Kjell Lund	Norway	1:45:22.4
17	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	1:46:45.8
18	Helge Abrahamsen	Norway	1:47:37.4
19	Robert Rinchard	Belgium	1:50:25.6
20	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	DQ
21	Gennadiy Agapov	Soviet Union	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

Italy (3)
Luxembourg (1)
Norway (2)

Sweden (1)
United Kingdom (3)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 405–412, retrieved 13 August 2014

Racewalking at the European Athletics Championships

Men

10,000 m walk	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954

20 km walk	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

50 km walk	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

Women

10 km walk	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998

20 km walk	1934 1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2012 2014

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