1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

None Men's 20 kilometres walk European Athletics Championships The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971. 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 412–420 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Nikolay Smaga URS 1955Silver Gerhard Sperling GDRBronze Paul Nihill GBR Results Final 10 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Nikolay Smaga URS 1955 1:27:20.2 CR European Athletics Championships Gerhard Sperling GDR 1:27:29.0 Paul Nihill GBR 1:27:34.8 4 Peter Frenkel GDR 1:27:52.8 5 Hans-Georg Reimann GDR 1:28:56.8 6 Phil Embleton GBR 1:29:31.6 7 Boris Yakovlev URS 1955 1:29:49.4 8 Yevgeniy Ivchenko URS 1955 1:31:32.2 9 Bernhard Kannenberg FRG 1:32:06.4 10 Pasquale Busca ITA 1:32:44.2 11 Antal Kiss HUN 1957 1:33:15.4 12 Charles Sowa LUX 1:33:54.6 13 Charles Sutherland GBR 1:34:15.0 14 Andor Antal HUN 1957 1:35:09.6 15 Sándor Fórián HUN 1957 1:35:24.2 16 Kåre Moen NOR 1:35:28.2 17 Jan Ornoch POL 1:35:33.4 18 Stefan Ingvarsson SWE 1:36:17.2 19 Hans Tenggren SWE 1:36:54.8 20 Wilfried Wesch FRG 1:37:39.4 21 Jan Rolstad NOR 1:39:14.8 22 Kjell Lund NOR 1:40:28.6 Participation According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event. 22em GDR (3) HUN 1957 (3) ITA (1) LUX (1) NOR (3) POL (1) URS 1955 (3) SWE (2) GBR (3) FRG (2) References Category:Race walking at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships