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1962 European Athletics Championships
Track events
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200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
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Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
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Pole vault	men
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The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, on 14 September 1962.

Medalists

Gold	Abdon Pamich  Italy
Silver	Grigoriy Panichkin  Soviet Union
Bronze	Donald Thompson  Great Britain

Results

Final

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:19:46.6
	Grigoriy Panichkin	Soviet Union	4:24:35.6
	Donald Thompson	Great Britain	4:29:00.2
4	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:29:37.8
5	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:30:19.8
6	István Havasi	Hungary	4:34:14.8
7	Hannes Koch	East Germany	4:38:34.0
8	Horst Astroth	East Germany	4:39:49.0
9	Ingvar Green	Sweden	4:40:08.0
10	Joël Vanderhaegen	Belgium	4:41:31.0
11	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:42:23.0
12	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	4:48:31.6
13	Eric Hall	Great Britain	4:55:47.0
14	Alfred Leiser	Switzerland	4:57:28.0
15	Stefano Serchinic	Italy	5:13:20.4
	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	DNF
	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	DNF
	Elio Massi	Italy	DNF
	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	DNF
	Grigory Klimov	Soviet Union	DQ
	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

•  Belgium (1)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  East Germany (3)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (3)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Sweden (2)
•   Switzerland (2)
•  Great Britain (3)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014

• Events at the 1962 European Athletics Championships
• Racewalking at the European Athletics Championships