European Athletics Championships 1974/20 km walking men

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 20km walk
city	Rome
place	Circuit through Rome
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 3
Medalist
gold	Volodymyr Holubnychy ( URS )
silver	Bernd Kannenberg ( FRG )
bronze	Roger Mills ( GBR )

Colosseum in Rome

The men's 20 km walk at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 3, 1974 in the streets of Rome .

European champion was the two-time Olympic champion ( 1960 / 1968 ) and two-time EM -Medaillengewinner ( 1962 Bronze / 1966 Silver) Volodymyr Holubnychy from the USSR. Second place went to the German Olympic champion from 1972 over 50 km walking, Bernd Kannenberg . Bronze went to the Briton Roger Mills.

Existing records / best performances

World record	1:24:50 h	Paul Nihill	Douglas , UK	July 30, 1972
European best time
EM record	1: 27: 20.2 h	Nikolai Smaga	EM in Budapest , Hungary	August 30, 1966

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.

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 21 walkers went to the final together.

Result

After two Olympic victories since 1960 and two EM medals since 1962, Volodymyr Holubnytschyj has now also become European champion

September 3, 1974, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1: 29: 30.0 SB
2	Bernd Kannenberg	BR Germany	1: 29: 38.2 SB
3	Roger Mills	Great Britain	1: 32: 33.8 PB
4th	Armando Zambaldo	Italy	1: 33: 04.8 SB
5	Jan Ornoch	Poland	1: 33: 19.6 SB
6th	Amos Seddon	Great Britain	1: 34: 17.6 PB
7th	Alessandro Bellucci	Italy	1: 34: 52.4 PB
8th	Hans Tenggren	Sweden	1: 35: 47.0 PB
9	Vinko Galušić	Yugoslavia	1: 36: 32.2 SB
10	Owe Hemmingsson	Sweden	1: 37: 07.6 SB
11	Siegfried Zschiegner	GDR	1: 37: 45.0 PB
12	Evgeni Semerdzhiev	Bulgaria	1: 39: 42.4
13	Milan Vala	Czechoslovakia	1: 39: 50.8 PB
14th	Jean-Claude Decosse	France	1: 39: 54.8 PB
15th	Jauhen Haurylenka	Soviet Union	1: 39: 56.0 SB
DNF	Gérard Lelièvre	France
	Peter Frenkel	GDR
	Vittorio Visini	Italy
	Christos Karagiorgos	Greece
DSQ	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	GDR
	Vladimir Saloshik	Soviet Union

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  The Olympic champion from 1972 and European Championship fourth from 1971 Peter Frenkel (here in 2018) did not reach the goal here

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  Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (right) was disqualified

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 12, 2019
• Men 20km Walk European Championship 1974 Rome on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20km Walk European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 424 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 12, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed July 12, 2019