1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski Poland (POL)
Silver	Valentin Kononen Finland (FIN)
Bronze	Andrey Plotnikov Russia (RUS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Andrey Perlov (URS)	3:37:41	August 5, 1989	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Event Record	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:40:55	August 31, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:43:51	SB
	Valentin Kononen (FIN)	3:44:29	SB
	Andrey Plotnikov (RUS)	3:45:53
4	Mikel Odriozola (ESP)	3:47:24	PB
5	Tomasz Lipiec (POL)	3:48:05
6	Santiago Pérez (ESP)	3:48:17
7	Arturo Di Mezza (ITA)	3:48:49	SB
8	Denis Trautmann (GER)	3:49:46	PB
9	René Piller (FRA)	3:51:03
10	Sylvain Caudron (FRA)	3:54:43
11	Robert Ihly (GER)	3:55:31
12	Peter Tichy  (SVK)	3:55:37	SB
13	Štefan Malík (SVK)	3:57:35
14	Spiridon Kastanis  (GRE)	3:58:28	SB
15	Antero Lindman (FIN)	3:58:45
16	Nikolay Matyukhin (RUS)	3:59:23
17	José Magalhaes  (POR)	3:59:46
18	Miloš Holuša (CZE)	4:01:38
19	Trond Nymark (NOR)	4:02:33
20	Bengt Bengtsson (SWE)	4:02:43
21	Peter Korčok (SVK)	4:04:17
22	Ervin Leczky (HUN)	4:04:54	SB
23	Jacob Sørensen (DEN)	4:05:25
24	Zoltán Czukor (HUN)	4:09:02
25	Klaus Jensen (DEN)	4:15:49	PB
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Oleg Ishutkin (RUS)	DSQ
—	Oleg Ginko (BLR)	DSQ
—	Axel Noack (GER)	DSQ
—	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	DSQ
—	Peter Ferrari (SWE)	DSQ
—	Vitaliy Gordey (BLR)	DSQ
—	Gabor Lengyel (HUN)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR)	DNF
—	Modris Liepiņš (LAT)	DNF
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DNF
—	Pascal Charriere  (SUI)	DNF
—	Giovanni Perricelli (ITA)	DNF
—	Aleksandar Raković (SCG)	DNF
—	Stanisław Stosik (POL)	DNF
—	Daugvinas Zujus (LTU)	DNF
—	Alessandro Mistretta (ITA)	DNF
—	Thierry Toutain (FRA)	DNF

See also

• 1998 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Results
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