European Athletics Championships 1998/20 km walking men
| 17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 33 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Budapest
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| Competition location | Round trip through Budapest | ||||||||
| Competition phase | 18th of August | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18, 1998 in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest .
European champion was the Russian Olympic runner-up in 1996, Ilya Markov . He won ahead of the Latvian Aigars Fadejevs . Bronze went to the Spaniard Francisco Javier Fernández .
Records / best performances
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 1:18:13 h |
 Pavol Blažek
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Hildesheim , FR Germany | September 16, 1990 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 1:18:45 h |
 Mikhail Shchennikov
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EM in Helsinki , Finland | August 7, 1994 |
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 European Championship record was not set and not improved at these European championships.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 33 walkers went to the final together.
Result
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Valentí Massana, 1993 world champion, 1995 runner-up world champion - each over 20 km - and in 1996 Olympic third on the 50 km course , finished ninth
João Vieira finished twenty
André Höhne came in 23rd place
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 9, 2019
- Men 20km Walk European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 9, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 9, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20km Walk European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 474 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 9, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 9, 2019
- 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 9, 2019
Video
- Campionati europei - Budapest'98 - 6/6 on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 9, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed October 9, 2019