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1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.[1]

Medalists

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

Results

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Final

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30 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Roland Wieser  East Germany 1:23:11.5 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pyotr Pochenchuk  Soviet Union 1:23:43.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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  Great Britain 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  Great Britain 1:33:08.2
26 Amos Seddom  Great Britain 1:34:17.8
27 Knut Arne Strømøy  Norway 1:36:01.9
Dominique Guebey  France DNF
Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  East Germany DQ

Participation

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

References

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