1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 1978 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
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
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 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Roland Wieser East Germany
Silver	Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union
Bronze	Anatoliy Solomin Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Roland Wieser	East Germany	1:23:11.5	CR
02 !	Pyotr Pochenchuk	Soviet Union	1:23:43.0
03 !	Anatoliy Solomin	Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
4	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:24:27.9
5	José Marín	Spain	1:24:38.1
6	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:24:57.5
7	Hartwig Gauder	East Germany	1:25:15.7
8	Roberto Buccione	Italy	1:25:40.9
9	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	1:25:56.8
10	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden	1:26:13.5
11	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:26:42.3
12	Alessandro Pezzatini	Italy	1:26:44.2
13	Juraj Benčík	Czechoslovakia	1:27:47.4
14	Svetozár Blažek	Czechoslovakia	1:27:49.3
15	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	1:29:19.7
16	Stanisław Rola	Poland	1:29:22.0
17	Imre Stankovics	Hungary	1:29:33.3
18	Štefan Petrík	Czechoslovakia	1:30:08.4
19	Owe Hemmingsson	Sweden	1:30:44.2
20	Alfons Schwarz	West Germany	1:31:17.6
21	Roger-George Mills	United Kingdom	1:31:52.5
22	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	1:32:08.9
23	Erling Andersen	Norway	1:32:13.0
24	Alf Brandt	Sweden	1:32:41.7
25	Brian Adams	United Kingdom	1:33:08.2
26	Amos Seddom	United Kingdom	1:34:17.8
27	Knut Arne Strømøy	Norway	1:36:01.9
28	Dominique Guebey	France	DNF
29	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

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

Poland (2)
Soviet Union (3)
Spain (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, 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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