European Athletics Championships 1969/50 km men's walk
| 9th European Athletics Championships | |
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| discipline | Men's 50 km walk |
| city |
.svg){kind=small} Athens
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| place | Circuit through Athens |
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 14 countries |
| Competition phase | September 18 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Christoph Höhne ( GDR )
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 silver |
Peter Selzer ( GDR )
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 bronze |
Weniamin soldiersko ( URS )
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The Athens Karaiskakis Stadium in 2009
The men's 50 km walk at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held in the streets of Athens on September 18, 1969 .
In this competition there was a double victory for the walkers from the GDR. European champion was the 1968 Olympic champion, Christoph Höhne . Second place went to the 1968 Olympic gold medalist Peter Selzer . Bronze went to Weniamin soldiersko from the Soviet Union.
Records / best performances
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 3:55:36 h |
Gennady Agapov
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Alma-Ata , Soviet Union today ( Kazakhstan ) | October 17, 1965 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 4: 17: 15.4 h |
.svg){kind=small} Yevgeny Maskinskov
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EM Stockholm , Sweden | August 24, 1958 |
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Panoramic view of Budapest
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.
Record improvement
European champion Christoph Höhne improved the existing championship record by 3: 42.6 minutes to 4: 13: 32.8 hours.
Result
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The Olympic runner-up from 1968 Antal Kiss (here in 2013) did not finish in this competition
September 18, 1969, 2:20 pm
| space | Surname | nation | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christoph Höhne |
GDR
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4: 13: 32.8 CR |
| 2 | Peter Selzer |
GDR
|
4: 16: 09.6 SB |
| 3 | Weniamin soldiersko |
Soviet Union
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4: 23: 04.8 SB |
| 4th | Otto Bartsch |
Soviet Union
|
4: 26: 45.0 SB |
| 5 | Ray Middleton |
 Great Britain
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4: 27: 00.0 SB |
| 6th | Stefan Ingvarsson |
 Sweden
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4: 32: 07.2 SB |
| 7th | Charles Sowa |
 Luxembourg
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4: 33: 24.6 SB |
| 8th | Alexandr Bilek |
 Czechoslovakia
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4: 34: 25.8 SB |
| 9 | Henri Delerue |
 France
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4: 35: 10.4 SB |
| 10 | János Dalmati |
 Hungary
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4: 38: 09.0 SB |
| 11 | Edmund Paziewski |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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4: 45: 15.0 PB |
| 12 | Stig Lindberg |
Sweden
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4: 45: 53.4 SB |
| 13 | Robert Rinchard |
 Belgium
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5: 09: 46.0 PB |
| 14th | Aynur Ayhan |
 Turkey
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5: 10: 16.4 PB |
| DNS | Abdon Pamich |
 Italy
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| Antal Kiss |
Hungary
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| Vittorio Visini |
Italy
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| Guy Bailly |
France
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| Tore Brustad |
 Norway
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| Odd Landehagen |
Norway
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| Bryan Elley |
Great Britain
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| Sahun Lightman |
Great Britain
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| DSQ | Burkhard Leuschke |
GDR
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| Sergei Bondarenko |
Soviet Union
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| Paavo Pohjolainen |
 Finland
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 7, 2019
- Men 50km 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 50 km Walk European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 408f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, 50 km walk 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. 50k men's walk , accessed June 9, 2019