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1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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Men's 50 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships

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

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

Results

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Final

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2 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jorge Llopart  Spain 3:53:29.9 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union 3:55:12.1
3rd place, 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 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

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According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 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