European Athletics Championships 1982/50 km men's walk

13th European Athletics Championships
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

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 here, all 24 walkers went to the final together.

Result

The defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1980 Jorge Llopart came in sixth this time

September 10, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 50k men's walk , accessed August 20, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 50km Walk Men , Spanish / English, p. 42 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 20, 2019