1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 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 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Praha, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

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

Results

Final

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Jorge Llopart	Spain	3:53:29.9	CR
02 !	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	3:55:12.1
03 !	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	Alessandro 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	United Kingdom	4:27:09.3
24	David Cotton	United Kingdom	DNF
25	Lars Ove Moen	Norway	DNF
26	Gérard Lelièvre	France	DNF
27	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	DNF
28	José Marín	Spain	DNF
29	Agustín Jorba	Spain	DNF
30	Reima Salonen	Finland	DNF
31	Bogusław Kmiecik	Poland	DNF
32	Erling Andersen	Norway	DNF
33	Jaromír Vaňous	Czechoslovakia	DNF
34	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	DNF
35	Heinrich Schubert	West Germany	DQ
36	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	DQ

Participation

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

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

Norway (2)
Poland (3)
Romania (1)
Soviet Union (3)

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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