European Athletics Championships 1971/50 km men's walk

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 50 km walk
city	Helsinki
place	Round trip through Helsinki
Attendees	25 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 14th
Medalist
gold	Weniamin soldiersko ( URS )
silver	Christoph Höhne ( GDR )
bronze	Peter Selzer ( GDR )

The men's 50 km walk at the European Athletics Championships in 1971 was held on August 14, 1971 in the streets of Helsinki .

In this competition, the GDR walkers won two medals, silver and bronze. European champion was the European Championship third from 1969 Weniamin soldiersko from the Soviet Union. He won ahead of the defending champion and 1968 Olympic champion Christoph Höhne . Bronze went to the Vice European Champion from 1969 Peter Selzer .

Records / best performances

Existing records / best performances

World record	3:55:36 h	Gennady Agapov	Alma-Ata , Soviet Union today ( Kazakhstan )	October 17, 1965
European best time
EM record	4: 13: 32.8 h	Christoph Höhne	EM Athens , Greece	18th September 1969

Panoramic view of Helsinki with the south harbor

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 Weniamin soldiersko improved the existing championship record on August 14 by 11: 10.8 minutes to 4: 02: 22.0 hours.

execution

There was no preliminary round in this competition, all 22 walkers entered the final together.

Result

After eleventh place over the distance of 20 kilometers , Antal Kiss (here in 2013) took eighteenth place

August 14, 1971, 1:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Weniamin soldiersko	Soviet Union	4: 02: 22.0 CR
2	Christoph Höhne	GDR	4: 04: 45.2 SB
3	Peter Selzer	GDR	4: 06: 11.0 SB
4th	Otto Bartsch	Soviet Union	4: 09: 14.4 SB
5	Winfried Skotnicki	GDR	4: 10: 22.0 SB
6th	Bernhard Nermerich	BR Germany	4: 11: 44.0 PB
7th	Igor Della-Rossa	Italy	4: 12: 08.6 PB
8th	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4: 14: 36.2 SB
9	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4: 14: 56.0 PB
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4: 15: 59.0 SB
11	János Dalmati	Hungary	4: 16: 59.6 PB
12	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4: 17: 36.4 PB
13	Gerhard Weidner	BR Germany	4: 17: 40.8 SB
14th	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	4: 20: 04.8 PB
15th	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4: 20: 45.8 SB
16	Bob Dobson	Great Britain	4: 21: 15.0 PB
17th	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	4: 26: 39.6 SB
18th	Antal Kiss	Hungary	4: 26: 53.6 PB
19th	Nesty Fischer	France	4: 28: 18.4 PB
20th	Manfred Aeberhard	Switzerland	4: 35: 45.6 PB
21st	Alfred Badel	Switzerland	4: 43: 12.0 PB
DNF	Tore Brustad	Norway
	Ron Wallwork	Great Britain
	Herbert Meier	BR Germany
	Carl Lawton	Great Britain

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1971 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 26, 2019
• Men 50km Walk European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 50 km Walk European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 416 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 50 km walk men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on June 26, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 50k men's walk , accessed June 25, 2019