1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk
| Men's 50 kilometres walk at the European Athletics Championships |
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| 1978 European Athletics Championships | ||
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| 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 | ||
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | 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 Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.[1]
Medalists
[edit]| Gold | Jorge Llopart Spain
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| Silver | Venyamin Soldatenko Soviet Union
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| Bronze | Jan Ornoch Poland
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Results
[edit]Final
[edit]2 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Jorge Llopart | Spain |
3:53:29.9 | CR |
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Venyamin Soldatenko | Soviet Union |
3:55:12.1 | |
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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
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