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1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.[1]
Medalists edit
| Gold | Jorge Llopart Spain |
| Silver | Venyamin Soldatenko Soviet Union |
| Bronze | Jan Ornoch Poland |
Results edit
Final edit
2 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jorge Llopart | Spain | 3:53:29.9 | CR | |
| Venyamin Soldatenko | Soviet Union | 3:55:12.1 | ||
| 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 | Sandro 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 | Great Britain | 4:27:09.3 | |
| David Cotton | Great Britain | DNF | ||
| Lars Ove Moen | Norway | DNF | ||
| Gérard Lelièvre | France | DNF | ||
| Lucien Faber | Luxembourg | DNF | ||
| José Marín | Spain | DNF | ||
| Agustín Jorba | Spain | DNF | ||
| Reima Salonen | Finland | DNF | ||
| Bogusław Kmiecik | Poland | DNF | ||
| Erling Andersen | Norway | DNF | ||
| Jaromír Vaňous | Czechoslovakia | DNF | ||
| Bohdan Bułakowski | Poland | DNF | ||
| Heinrich Schubert | West Germany | DQ | ||
| Yancho Kamenov | Bulgaria | DQ |
Participation edit
According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.
- Bulgaria (1)
- Czechoslovakia (3)
- East Germany (3)
- Finland (2)
- France (2)
- Hungary (1)
- Italy (3)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Norway (2)
- Poland (3)
- Romania (1)
- Soviet Union (3)
- Spain (3)
- Sweden (3)
- Great Britain (2)
- West Germany (3)
References edit
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 427–435, retrieved 13 August 2014