1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

1978 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
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
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
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	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 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Jorge Llopart  Spain
Silver	Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union
Bronze	Jan Ornoch  Poland

Results

Final

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jorge Llopart	Spain	3:53:29.9	CR
	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	3:55:12.1
	Jan Ornoch	Poland	3:55:15.9
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	3:57:23.7
5	Viktor Dorovskiy	Soviet Union	3:57:26.7
6	Vittorio Visini	Italy	3:57:42.8
7	Sandro Bellucci	Italy	3:58:25.9
8	Olaf Pilarski	East Germany	4:00:03.8
9	Mathias Kroel	East Germany	4:00:11.9
10	Mario Kreber	East Germany	4:01:03.7
11	Bengt Simonsen	Sweden	4:03:34.6
12	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:04:01.9
13	Hans Binder	West Germany	4:04:12.4
14	Ján Dzurňák	Czechoslovakia	4:04:40.0
15	Paolo Grecucci	Italy	4:05:46.8
16	Ladislav Vitéz	Czechoslovakia	4:07:55.8
17	Lennart Lundgren	Sweden	4:09:54.7
18	Dominique Guebey	France	4:09:57.0
19	László Sátor	Hungary	4:10:22.4
20	Stig-Olaf Elofsson	Sweden	4:12:39.1
21	Seppo Immonen	Finland	4:16:52.5
22	Cornel Patusinschi	Romania	4:23:26.9
23	Ian Richards	Great Britain	4:27:09.3
	David Cotton	Great Britain	DNF
	Lars Ove Moen	Norway	DNF
	Gérard Lelièvre	France	DNF
	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	DNF
	José Marín	Spain	DNF
	Agustín Jorba	Spain	DNF
	Reima Salonen	Finland	DNF
	Bogusław Kmiecik	Poland	DNF
	Erling Andersen	Norway	DNF
	Jaromír Vaňous	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	DNF
	Heinrich Schubert	West Germany	DQ
	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References