European Athletics Championships 1982/20 km walking men

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13th European Athletics Championships
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discipline Men's 20km walk
city Greece 1970Greece Athens
place Circuit through Athens
Attendees 21 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase 7th of September
Medalist
gold gold José Marín ( ESP ) SpainSpain 
Silver medals silver Jozef Pribilinec ( TCH ) CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 
Bronze medals bronze Pavol Blažek ( TCH ) CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 

The men's 20 km at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7, 1982 in the streets of Athens .

In this competition there were two medals, silver and bronze, for the walkers from Czechoslovakia. European champion was the Spaniard José Marín , who won silver in the 50 km walk three days later . Second place went to Jozef Pribilinec . Bronze went to Pavol Blažek .

Existing records / best performances

World record 1:19:35 h MexicoMexico Domingo Colin Cherkassy , Soviet Union (now Ukraine ) April 27, 1980
European best time 1:19:53 h Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Yevgeny Jewsjukov
EM record 1: 23: 11.5 h Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Roland Wieser EM in Prague , Czechoslovakia August 30, 1978
View of Athens from Mount Lycabettus

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

September 7, 1982

space Surname nation Time (h)
1 José Marín SpainSpain Spain 1:23:43 SB
2 Jozef Pribilinec CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1:25:55 SB
3 Pavol Blažek CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1:26:13 SB
4th Gérard Lelièvre FranceFrance France 1:26:30 PB
5 Alessandro Pezzatini ItalyItaly Italy 1:26:39 SB
6th Carlo Matioli ItalyItaly Italy 1:26:56 SB
7th Nikolai Matveev Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 1:27:57 PB
8th Reima saloons FinlandFinland Finland 1:28:04 SB
9 Roland Wieser Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 1:29:11 SB
10 Pyotr Pochinchuk Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 1:30:13 SB
11 Steve Barry United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1:31:00 SB
12 Martial bondage FranceFrance France 1:32:23 SB
13 Ian McCombie United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1:32:36 SB
14th José Pinto PortugalPortugal Portugal 1:34:19 SB
15th Lennart Mether SwedenSweden Sweden 1:35:09 PB
16 Jan Staaf SwedenSweden Sweden 1:37:37 SB
17th Franz-Josef Weber Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 1:39:38 PB
18th Leif Christensen DenmarkDenmark Denmark 1:45:45 PB
DSQ Bo Gustafsson SwedenSweden Sweden
Maurizio Damilano ItalyItaly Italy
Aristidis Karagiorgos GreeceGreece Greece

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed August 20, 2019
  2. Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 20 km Walk Men , Spanish / English, p. 41 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 20, 2019