1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Events at the 1971 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
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
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
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The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union
Silver	Gerhard Sperling  East Germany
Bronze	Paul Nihill  United Kingdom

Results

Final

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:27:20.2	CR
02 !	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:27:29.0
03 !	Paul Nihill	United Kingdom	1:27:34.8
4	Peter Frenkel	East Germany	1:27:52.8
5	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:28:56.8
6	Philip Embleton	United Kingdom	1:29:31.6
7	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:29:49.4
8	Yevgeniy Ivchenko	Soviet Union	1:31:32.2
9	Bernhard Kannenberg	West Germany	1:32:06.4
10	Pasquale Busca	Italy	1:32:44.2
11	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:33:15.4
12	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:33:54.6
13	Charles Sutherland	United Kingdom	1:34:15.0
14	Andor Antal	Hungary	1:35:09.6
15	Sándor Fórián	Hungary	1:35:24.2
16	Kåre Moen	Norway	1:35:28.2
17	Jan Ornoch	Poland	1:35:33.4
18	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1:36:17.2
19	Hans Tenggren	Sweden	1:36:54.8
20	Wilfried Wesch	West Germany	1:37:39.4
21	Jan Rolstad	Norway	1:39:14.8
22	Kjell Lund	Norway	1:40:28.6

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References