European Athletics Championships 1982/50 km men's walk
13th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 50 km walk |
city | Athens |
place | Circuit through Athens |
Attendees | 24 athletes from 12 countries |
Competition phase | September 10 |
Medalist | |
gold | Reima Salonen ( FIN ) |
silver | José Marín ( ESP ) |
bronze | Bo Gustafsson ( SWE ) |
The men's 50 km walk at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 10, 1982 in the streets of Athens . The competition took place in extreme heat, with the result that eleven of the 24 participants gave up before reaching the goal. Two other athletes were disqualified, so that only eleven walkers were included in the ranking.
European champion was the Finn Reima Salonen . The Spanish winner of the 20 kilometer walk, José Marín , won the silver medal. Third place went to Bo Gustafsson from Sweden .
Existing records / best performances
World record | 3:41:20 h | Raúl González | Poděbrady , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic ) | June 11, 1978 |
European best time | 3:43:35 h | José Marín | Barcelona , Spain | March 9, 1980 |
EM record | 3: 53: 29.9 h | Jorge Llopart | EM in Prague , Czechoslovakia | 2nd September 1978 |
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 here, all 24 walkers went to the final together.
Result
September 10, 1982
space | Surname | nation | Time (h) |
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1 | Reima saloons | Finland | 3:55:29 |
2 | José Marín | Spain | 3:59:18 |
3 | Bo Gustafsson | Sweden | 4:01:21 SB |
4th | Hartwig Gauder | GDR | 4:04:51 |
5 | Boguslaw Duda | Poland | 4:07:20 PB |
6th | Jorge Llopart | Spain | 4:08:28 |
7th | Valeri Suntsow | Soviet Union | 4:12:51 |
8th | Stig-Olaf Elofsson | Sweden | 4:22:44 SB |
9 | Christos Karagiorgos | Greece | 4:33:31 PB |
10 | Sergei Jung | Soviet Union | 4:35:02 |
11 | Karl Degener | BR Germany | 4:35:54 PB |
DNF | Pavol Blažek | Czechoslovakia | |
Paolo Grecucci | Italy | ||
Erling Andersen | Norway | ||
Bogdan Bulakowski | Poland | ||
Dietmar Meisch | GDR | ||
Aristidis Karagiorgos | Greece | ||
Lars Ove Moen | Norway | ||
Maurizio Damilano | Italy | ||
Leif Christensen | Denmark | ||
Viktor Dorovskich | Soviet Union | ||
Manuel Alcalde | Spain | ||
DSQ | Alessandro Bellucci | Italy | |
Bengt Simonsen | Sweden |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 20, 2019
- Men 50km Walk European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 20, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 20, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 50km Walk European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 440 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 20, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 50 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 20, 2019
- 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 20, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50k men's walk , accessed August 20, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 50km Walk Men , Spanish / English, p. 42 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 20, 2019