1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 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 50 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 14 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

Gold Venyamin Soldatenko
 Soviet Union
Silver Christoph Höhne
 East Germany
Bronze Peter Selzer
 East Germany

Results

Final

14 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union 4:02:22.0 CR
2nd Christoph Höhne  East Germany 4:04:45.2
3rd Peter Selzer  East Germany 4:06:11.0
4 Otto Barch  Soviet Union 4:09:14.4
5 Winfried Skotnicki  East Germany 4:10:22.0
6 Bernhard Nermerich  West Germany 4:11:44.0
7 Igor Della Rossa  Soviet Union 4:12:08.6
8 Abdon Pamich  Italy 4:14:36.2
9 Stefan Ingvarsson  Sweden 4:14:56.0
10 Charles Sowa  Luxembourg 4:15:59.0
11 János Dalmati  Hungary 4:16:59.6
12 Alexandr Bílek  Czechoslovakia 4:17:36.4
13 Gerhard Weidner  West Germany 4:17:40.8
14 Örjan Andersson  Sweden 4:20:04.8
15 Vittorio Visini  Italy 4:20:45.8
16 Robert Dobson  United Kingdom 4:21:15.0
17 Daniel Björkgren  Sweden 4:26:39.6
18 Antal Kiss  Hungary 4:26:53.6
19 Nesty Fischer  France 4:28:18.4
20 Manfred Aeberhard  Switzerland 4:35:45.6
21 Alfred Badel  Switzerland 4:43:12.0
22 Tore Brustad  Norway DNF
23 Ronald Wallwork  United Kingdom DNF
24 Herbert Meier  West Germany DNF
25 Carl Lawton  United Kingdom DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK, European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014