Misplaced Pages

1971 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 14 August 1971.

Medalists

Gold	Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union
Silver	Christoph Höhne  East Germany
Bronze	Peter Selzer  East Germany

Results

Final

14 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	4:02:22.0	CR
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:04:45.2
	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:06:11.0
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:09:14.4
5	Winfried Skotnicki	East Germany	4:10:22.0
6	Bernhard Nermerich	West Germany	4:11:44.0
7	Igor Della Rossa	Soviet Union	4:12:08.6
8	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:14:36.2
9	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:14:56.0
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:15:59.0
11	János Dalmati	Hungary	4:16:59.6
12	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:17:36.4
13	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:17:40.8
14	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	4:20:04.8
15	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:20:45.8
16	Bob Dobson	Great Britain	4:21:15.0
17	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	4:26:39.6
18	Antal Kiss	Hungary	4:26:53.6
19	Nesty Fischer	France	4:28:18.4
20	Manfred Aeberhard	Switzerland	4:35:45.6
21	Alfred Badel	Switzerland	4:43:12.0
	Tore Brustad	Norway	DNF
	Ron Wallwork	Great Britain	DNF
	Herbert Meier	West Germany	DNF
	Carl Lawton	Great Britain	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

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

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014

• Events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships
• Racewalking at the European Athletics Championships