European Athletics Championships 1969/20 km walking men
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
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| discipline | Men's 20km walk |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
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| place | Circuit through Athens |
| Attendees | 21 athletes from 11 countries |
| Competition phase | 16th September |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Paul Nihill ( GBR )
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 silver |
Leonida Caraiosifoglu ( ROM )
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 bronze |
Nikolai Smaga ( URS )
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The men's 20 km at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 16, 1969 in the streets of Athens .
European champion was the British Olympic silver medalist of 1964 over 50-km walk Paul Nihill , full name: Vincent Paul Nihill. He won ahead of the Romanian Leonida Caraiosifoglu. Bronze went to the Soviet Olympic third-party from 1968 Nikolai Smaga .
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 1:25:22 h |
Gennady Agapov
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Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 21, 1968 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 1: 29: 25.0 h |
 Dieter Lindner
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EM in Budapest , Hungary | August 30, 1966 |
View from Filopapou Hill in Athens
Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
Result
September 16, 1969, 8:20 pm
| space | Surname | nation | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Nihill |
Great Britain
|
1: 30: 41.0 SB |
| 2 | Leonida Caraiosifoglu |
Romania
|
1: 31: 06.4 PB |
| 3 | Nikolai Smaga |
Soviet Union
|
1: 31: 20.2 SB |
| 4th | Gerhard Sperling |
GDR
|
1: 32: 04.0 SB |
| 5 | Hans-Georg Reimann |
GDR
|
1: 33: 04.0 SB |
| 6th | Abdon Pamich |
 Italy
|
1: 34: 15.0 PB |
| 7th | Borys Yakovlev |
Soviet Union
|
1: 35: 19.0 SB |
| 8th | John Webb |
Great Britain
|
1: 35: 51.0 SB |
| 9 | Stefan Ingvarsson |
 Sweden
|
1: 36: 26.8 SB |
| 10 | Pasquale Busca |
Italy
|
1: 37: 11.0 SB |
| 11 | Victor Schuch |
Romania
|
1: 37: 42.0 PB |
| 12 | Gabriele Nigro |
Italy
|
1: 38: 15.0 PB |
| 13 | Peter Fullager |
Great Britain
|
1: 38: 24.0 SB |
| 14th | Vasile Ilie |
Romania
|
1: 43: 23.0 PB |
| 15th | János Dalmati |
 Hungary
|
1: 43: 53.8 SB |
| 16 | Kjell Lund |
Sweden
|
1: 45: 22.4 SB |
| 17th | Edmund Paziewski |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
|
1: 46: 45.8 SB |
| 18th | Helge Abrahamsen |
 Norway
|
1: 47: 37.4 PB |
| 19th | Robert Rinchard |
 Belgium
|
1: 50: 25.6 PB |
| DSQ | Charles Sowa |
 Luxembourg
|
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| Gennady Agapov |
Soviet Union
|
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| DNS | Antal Kiss |
Hungary
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| Paavo Pohjolainen |
 Finland
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| Alexandr Bílek |
 Czechoslovakia
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| Janew |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
- Men 20km Walk European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 7, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20km Walk European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 408 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed June 9, 2019