2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Competition at the Track and Field European Championship 2002 Men's 50 kilometres walk European Athletics Championships These are the official results of the Men's 50 km walk event at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, Germany, held on August 8, 2002. Poland's Robert Korzeniowski set a new world record, clocking a total time of 3:36:39, defeating Valeriy Spitsyn's 3:37:26 from May 21, 2000 set in Moscow, Russia. Medalists GoldPOL Robert KorzeniowskiPoland (POL)SilverRUS Aleksey VoyevodinRussia (RUS)BronzeESP Jesús Ángel GarcíaSpain (ESP) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordWL world leadingAR area recordCR event recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Records Standing records prior to the 2002 European Athletics Championships World Record Valeriy Spitsyn RUS 3:37:26 May 21, 2000 RUS Moscow, Russia Event Record Hartwig Gauder GDR 3:40:55 August 31, 1986 FIN Stuttgart, West GermanyStanding records after the 2002 European Athletics Championships World Record Robert Korzeniowski POL 3:36:39 August 8, 2002 GER Munich, Germany Event Record Final RankAthleteTimeNote Robert Korzeniowski POL3:36:39 WR Aleksey Voyevodin RUS 3:40:16 SB Jesús Ángel García ESP 3:44:33 SB 4 German Skurygin RUS 3:48:58 5 Trond Nymark NOR 3:50:16 6 Denis Langlois FRA 3:50:47 SB 7 Aleksandar Raković SCG YUG 3:51:47 SB 8 Francesco Galdenzi ITA 3:52:17 9 Modris Liepiņš LAT 3:52:36 SB 10 Grzegorz Sudoł POL 3:54:35 11 Peter Korčok SVK 3:55:34 12 Santiago Pérez ESP 3:55:50 13 Fredrik Svensson SWE 3:56:32 SB 14 Spiridon Kastanis GRE 4:00:31 SB 15 David Boulanger FRA 4:03:20 SB 16 Pedro Martins POR 4:03:39 17 Bengt Bengtsson SWE 4:07:03 18 René Piller FRA 4:07:20 SB 19 Uģis Brūvelis LAT 4:14:39 20 Marek Janek SVK 4:19:08 DISQUALIFIED (DQ) — Jiří Malysa CZE DQ — Yuriy Andronov RUS DQ — Tomasz Lipiec POL DQ — Jamie Costin IRL DQ — Jacob Sørensen DEN DQ — Mikel Odriozola ESP DQ — Giovanni de Benedictis ITA DQ — Martin Pupis SVK DQ DID NOT FINISH (DNF) — Marco Giungi ITA DNF — Jorge Costa POR DNF DID NOT START (DNS) — Miloš Holuša CZE DNS See also 2002 Race Walking Year Ranking References Results Official Results https://web.archive.org/web/20110929144000/http://www.rfea.es/competi/result2002/munich2002/resultados.pdf 2011-09-29 IAAF Year Ranking Category:Race walking at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships