European Athletics Championships 1998/50 km men's walking
| 17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 42 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Budapest
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| Competition location | Round trip through Budapest | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21 | ||||||||
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The men's 50-km walk at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21, 1998 in the streets of the Hungarian capital, Budapest .
European champion was the Polish Olympic champion from 1996 , World Cup third from 1995 and world champion from 1997 Robert Korzeniowski . Second place went to the 1995 Finnish world champion Valentin Kononen . The Russian Andrei Plotnikow won the bronze medal.
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 3:37:41 h |
 Andrei Perlow
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Leningrad (now St. Petersburg ) Soviet Union (now Russia ) |
5th August 1989 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 3:40:55 h |
 Hartwig Gauder
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EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany | August 31, 1986 |
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 42 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 21, 1998
Note: In the sources listed below, there are divergent versions of the results for walkers who were disqualified or who did not finish the competition.
- The French Thierry Toutain is named as disqualified on the EAA website and the Statistics Handbook - both go back to www.european-athletics.org. At todor66.com, on the other hand, Toutain is listed among the walkers who did not finish the competition.
- The Belarusian Vitaliy Gordey is listed as disqualified on todor66.com. This athlete is not listed on the EAA website or in the Statistics Handbook.
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 9, 2019
- Men 50km 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 50km 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, 50 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
- Campeonato de Europa Budapest 1998, 50km marcha on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 9, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50k men's walk , accessed October 9, 2019