World Athletics Championships 1976/50 km men's walk

World Athletics Championships 1976
discipline	50 km walk
gender	Men
Attendees	42 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Malmo
Competition location	Circuit in Malmö
Competition phase	September 18, 1976
Medalist Weniamin soldiersko ( URS )   Enrique Vera ( MEX )   Reima Salonen ( FIN )

View of Malmö in 2014

The men's 50 km walk at the 1976 World Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Malmö on September 18, 1976 . It was the only competition at this championship.

World champion was the Olympic runner-up in 1972 , European champion in 1971 and European championship third in 1969, Weniamin soldiersko from the Soviet Union . He won ahead of the Mexican Central America and Caribbean champion in the 20 km walk Enrique Vera . Bronze went to the Finn Reima Salonen .

Records / best performances

World record	3:52:45 h	Bernd Kannenberg	Bremen , BR Germany	May 27, 1972
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

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.

World champion Weniamin soldiersko from the Soviet Union set the first world championship record in the competition on September 18 with 3:54:40 h.

execution

There was no preliminary round, all 42 walkers went to the final together.

Result

Shaul Ladany - thirty place

September 18, 1976

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Weniamin soldiersko	Soviet Union	3:54:40 CR
2	Enrique Vera	Mexico	3:58:14
3	Reima saloons	Finland	3:58:53
4th	Domingo Colin	Mexico	4:00:34
5	Matthias Kröl	GDR	4:00:58
6th	Yevgeny Ljungin	Soviet Union	4:04:36
7th	Paolo Grecucci	Italy	4:04:59
8th	Ralf Knütter	GDR	4:05:41
9	Gerhard Weidner	BR Germany	4:06:20
10	Yevgeny Jewsjukov	Soviet Union	4:07:14
11	Bogusaw Kmiecik	Poland	4:09:30
12	Steffan Müller	GDR	4:10:17
13	Bob Dobson	Great Britain	4:10:20
14th	Agustin Jorbo Argenti	Spain	4:11:04
15th	Lennart Lundgren	Sweden	4:11:43
16	Heinrich Schubert	BR Germany	4:11:55
17th	Franco Vecchio	Italy	4:12:14
18th	Bogdan Bulakowski	Poland	4:13:20
19th	Hans Binder	BR Germany	4:13:49
20th	Seppo Immonen	Finland	4:15:28
21st	Larry Young	United States	4:16:47
22nd	Willy Sawall	Australia	4:18:27
23	Timothy Ericsson	Sweden	4:20:23
24	Ferenc Danovsky	Hungary	4:22:36
25th	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:26:45
26th	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	4:26:48
27	August Shepherd	United States	4:28:35
28	Pat Farrelly	Canada	4:29:54
29	Robin Whyte	Australia	4:30:08
30th	Shaul Ladany	Israel	4:33:02
31	Claude Saurriat	United States	4:34:57
32	Roy Thorpe	Great Britain	4:35:57
33	Glen Sweazey	Canada	4:36:00
34	Max Grob	Switzerland	4:38:08
35	Nico Schroten	Netherlands	4:42:53
36	Helmut Bueck	Canada	4:50:52
37	Henry Klein	American Virgin Islands	5:09:04
DNF	Gérard Lelièvre	France
	Carl Lawton	Great Britain
	Vittorio Visini	Italy
	Floyd Godwin	United States
DSQ	Bengt Simonsen	Sweden
DNS	Alik Basirev	Bulgaria
	Nadarajan Rengasamy	Singapore

literature

• Mark Butler (Ed.): IAAF Statistics Handbook - 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Berlin 2009. IAAF Media & Public Relations Department, 2009, p. 153 ( PDF; 6.84 MB )

Web links

• World champion over 50 km walking on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 3, 2017
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 50km Walk, Malmö 1976, p. 220 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 13, 2020
• World Athletics Championships 1976 in Malmö, Sweden ifosta.de, accessed on July 3, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 13, 2020