1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

None Men's 50 kilometres walk 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. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 427–435 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Jorge Llopart ESP 1977Silver Venyamin Soldatenko URS 1955Bronze Jan Ornoch POL Results Final 2 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jorge Llopart ESP 1977 3:53:29.9 CR Venyamin Soldatenko URS 1955 3:55:12.1 Jan Ornoch POL 3:55:15.9 4 Otto Barch URS 1955 3:57:23.7 5 Viktor Dorovskiy URS 1955 3:57:26.7 6 Vittorio Visini ITA 3:57:42.8 7 Sandro Bellucci ITA 3:58:25.9 8 Olaf Pilarski GDR 4:00:03.8 9 Mathias Kroel GDR 4:00:11.9 10 Mario Kreber GDR 4:01:03.7 11 Bengt Simonsen SWE 4:03:34.6 12 Gerhard Weidner FRG 4:04:01.9 13 Hans Binder FRG 4:04:12.4 14 Ján Dzurňák TCH 4:04:40.0 15 Paolo Grecucci ITA 4:05:46.8 16 Ladislav Vitéz TCH 4:07:55.8 17 Lennart Lundgren SWE 4:09:54.7 18 Dominique Guebey FRA 4:09:57.0 19 László Sátor HUN 1957 4:10:22.4 20 Stig-Olaf Elofsson SWE 4:12:39.1 21 Seppo Immonen FIN 4:16:52.5 22 Cornel Patusinschi ROU 1965 4:23:26.9 23 Ian Richards GBR 4:27:09.3 24 David Cotton GBR DNF 25 Lars Ove Moen NOR DNF 26 Gérard Lelièvre FRA DNF 27 Lucien Faber LUX DNF 28 José Marín ESP 1977 DNF 29 Agustín Jorba ESP 1977 DNF 30 Reima Salonen FIN DNF 31 Bogusław Kmiecik POL DNF 32 Erling Andersen NOR DNF 33 Jaromír Vaňous TCH DNF 34 Bohdan Bułakowski POL DNF 35 Heinrich Schubert FRG DQ 36 Yancho Kamenov BUL 1971 DQ Participation According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event. 22em BUL 1971 (1) TCH (3) GDR (3) FIN (2) FRA (2) HUN 1957 (1) ITA (3) LUX (1) NOR (2) POL (3) ROU 1965 (1) URS 1955 (3) ESP 1977 (3) SWE (3) GBR (2) FRG (3) References Category:Race walking at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1978 European Athletics Championships