1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the
1971 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 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

Gold Nikolay Smaga
 Soviet Union
Silver Gerhard Sperling
 East Germany
Bronze Paul Nihill
 United Kingdom

Results

Final

10 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union 1:27:20.2 CR
2nd Gerhard Sperling  East Germany 1:27:29.0
3rd Paul Nihill  United Kingdom 1:27:34.8
4 Peter Frenkel  East Germany 1:27:52.8
5 Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany 1:28:56.8
6 Philip Embleton  United Kingdom 1:29:31.6
7 Boris Yakovlev  Soviet Union 1:29:49.4
8 Yevgeniy Ivchenko  Soviet Union 1:31:32.2
9 Bernhard Kannenberg  West Germany 1:32:06.4
10 Pasquale Busca  Italy 1:32:44.2
11 Antal Kiss  Hungary 1:33:15.4
12 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 1:33:54.6
13 Charles Sutherland  United Kingdom 1:34:15.0
14 Andor Antal  Hungary 1:35:09.6
15 Sándor Fórián  Hungary 1:35:24.2
16 Kåre Moen  Norway 1:35:28.2
17 Jan Ornoch  Poland 1:35:33.4
18 Stefan Ingvarsson  Sweden 1:36:17.2
19 Hans Tenggren  Sweden 1:36:54.8
20 Wilfried Wesch  West Germany 1:37:39.4
21 Jan Rolstad  Norway 1:39:14.8
22 Kjell Lund  Norway 1:40:28.6

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014
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