1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

33 athletes participated Men's 20 kilometres walk European Athletics Championships These are the official results of the Men's 20 km walk event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with the race held on 18 August 1998. Medalists GoldRUS Ilya MarkovRussia (RUS)SilverLAT Aigars FadejevsLatvia (LAT)BronzeESP Paquillo FernándezSpain (ESP) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Records Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships World Record Bu Lingtang CHN 1:18:04 April 7, 1994 CHN Beijing, PR China Event Record Mikhail Shchennikov RUS 1:18:45 August 8, 1994 FIN Helsinki, Finland Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote Ilya Markov RUS1:21:10 Aigars Fadejevs LAT1:21:25 Paquillo Fernández ESP1:21:394Andreas Erm GER1:21.535Sándor Urbanik HUN1:22.126Ivan Trotski BLR1:22.467Denis Langlois FRA1:23.028Yevgeniy Shmalyuk RUS1:23.329Valentí Massana ESP1:23.3610Giovanni De Benedictis ITA1:25.06 SB11Michele Didoni ITA1:25.5412Alessandro Gandellini ITA1:25.5713José Urbano POR1:26.0414Claus Jørgensen DEN1:26.2815Igor Kollár SVK1:26.4316Anthony Gillet FRA1:27.0717Róbert Valíček SVK1:27.2518Gyula Dudás HUN1:27.5119Fedosei Ciumacenco MDA1:27.5620João Vieira POR1:29.3821Jiří Malysa CZE1:30.1622Spiridon Kastanis GRE1:30.1923André Höhne GER1:32.2824Erik Kalina SVK1:35.5525Michael Casey IRL1:38.58DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)—Andrey Makarov BLRDSQ—Daniel Plaza ESPDSQ—Birger Fält SWEDSQ—Artur Meleshkevich BLRDSQDID NOT FINISH (DNF)—Mikhail Shchennikov RUSDNF—Jan Staaf SWEDNF—Bengt Bengtsson SWEDNF—Pierce O'Callaghan IRLDNF See also 1995 Men's World Championships 20km Walk (Gothenburg) 1996 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Atlanta) 1997 Men's World Championships 20km Walk (Athens) 1998 Race Walking Year Ranking 1999 Men's World Championships 20km Walk (Seville) 2000 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Sydney) 2001 Men's World Championships 20km Walk (Edmonton) References Results Category:Race walking at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1998 European Athletics Championships