European Athletics Championships 2002/20 km walking men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	20 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Circuit through Munich
Competition phase	6th of August
Medalist Francisco Javier Fernández ( ESP )   Vladimir Andreyev ( RUS )   Juan Manuel Molina ( ESP )

Stachus . View of Karlstor

The men's 20 km walk at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18, 2002 in the streets of Munich .

With gold and bronze, the Spanish walkers won two medals in this competition. The European champion was the European Championship third in 1998 and the holder of the world record was Francisco Javier Fernández . He won ahead of the Russian Olympic third in 2000, Vladimir Andreyev . Bronze went to Juan Manuel Molina .

Records / best performances

Existing records / best performances

World record	1:17:22 h	Francisco Javier Fernández	Turku , Finland	April 28, 2002
European best time
EM record	1:18:45 h	Mikhail Shchennikov	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.

Record improvement

European champion Francisco Javier Fernández improved the existing EM record on August 6th by eight seconds to 1:18:37 h.  

execution

There was no preliminary round here, all 24 walkers went to the final together.

Francisco Javier Fernández, third in the 1998 European Championship and holder of the world's fastest time, became European champion for the first time

Bronze medalist Juan Manuel Molina

Result

August 6, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Francisco Javier Fernández	Spain	1:18:37 CR
2	Vladimir Andreyev	Russia	1:19:56
3	Juan Manuel Molina	Spain	1:20:36
4th	Viktor Burayev	Russia	1:20:36
5	Ivan Trozki	Belarus	1:20:52
6th	Jauhen Misjulja	Belarus	1:20:56
7th	Alessandro Gandellini	Italy	1:21:03
8th	Robert Heffernan	Ireland	1:21:10
9	Lorenzo Civallero	Italy	1:21:21
10	Andrei Stadnichuk	Russia	1:21:29
11	André Höhne	Germany	1:21:38
12	João Vieira	Portugal	1:21:55
13	Jiří Malysa	Czech Republic	1:22:21
14th	Roman Magdziarczyk	Poland	1:22:57
15th	Benjamin Kuciński	Poland	1:24:38
16	Augusto Cardoso	Portugal	1:24:59
17th	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:25:06
18th	Peter Barto	Slovakia	1:25:36
19th	Jan Albrecht	Germany	1:25:58
20th	Miloš Holuša	Czech Republic	1:26:03
21st	Theódoros Stamatópoulos	Greece	1:26:53
22nd	Radovan Elko	Slovakia	1:27:47
23	Miloš Bátovský	Slovakia	1:28:54
DSQ	Andi Drake	Great Britain

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  Robert Heffernan reached number eight - he achieved numerous successes later that his biggest was World Cup -Titel 2013

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  André Höhne came in eleventh place

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  João Vieira was twelfth

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  Roman Magdziarczyk was fourteenth

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  Erik Tysse (left) came in seventeenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Men 20km Walk European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20km Walk European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 484 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 28, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 28, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed October 28, 2019