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
1st, gold medalist(s) Jorge Llopart  Spain 3:53:29.9 CR
2nd, silver medalist(s) Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union 3:55:12.1
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 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.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014
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