2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Competition at the Track and Field European Championship 2002

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the European Athletics Championships

2002 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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the Men's 50 km walk event at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, Germany, held on August 8, 2002. Poland's Robert Korzeniowski set a new world record, clocking a total time of 3:36:39, defeating Valeriy Spitsyn's 3:37:26 from May 21, 2000 set in Moscow, Russia.

Medalists

Gold	Robert Korzeniowski Poland (POL)
Silver	Aleksey Voyevodin Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Jesús Ángel García Spain (ESP)

Standing records prior to the 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)	3:37:26	May 21, 2000	Moscow, Russia
Event Record	Hartwig Gauder (GDR)	3:40:55	August 31, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Standing records after the 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:39	August 8, 2002	Munich, Germany
Event Record	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:39	August 8, 2002	Munich, Germany

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Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert Korzeniowski (POL)	3:36:39	WR
	Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS)	3:40:16	SB
	Jesús Ángel García (ESP)	3:44:33	SB
4	German Skurygin (RUS)	3:48:58
5	Trond Nymark (NOR)	3:50:16
6	Denis Langlois (FRA)	3:50:47	SB
7	Aleksandar Raković (YUG)	3:51:47	SB
8	Francesco Galdenzi (ITA)	3:52:17
9	Modris Liepiņš (LAT)	3:52:36	SB
10	Grzegorz Sudoł (POL)	3:54:35
11	Peter Korčok (SVK)	3:55:34
12	Santiago Pérez (ESP)	3:55:50
13	Fredrik Svensson (SWE)	3:56:32	SB
14	Spiridon Kastanis (GRE)	4:00:31	SB
15	David Boulanger (FRA)	4:03:20	SB
16	Pedro Martins (POR)	4:03:39
17	Bengt Bengtsson (SWE)	4:07:03
18	René Piller (FRA)	4:07:20	SB
19	Uģis Brūvelis (LAT)	4:14:39
20	Marek Janek (SVK)	4:19:08
DISQUALIFIED (DQ)
—	Jiří Malysa (CZE)	DQ
—	Yuriy Andronov (RUS)	DQ
—	Tomasz Lipiec (POL)	DQ
—	Jamie Costin (IRL)	DQ
—	Jacob Sørensen (DEN)	DQ
—	Mikel Odriozola (ESP)	DQ
—	Giovanni de Benedictis (ITA)	DQ
—	Martin Pupis (SVK)	DQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Marco Giungi (ITA)	DNF
—	Jorge Costa (POR)	DNF
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Miloš Holuša (CZE)	DNS

Men

Women

v t e European Athletics Championships champions in men's 50 km walk and 35 km walk
1934–2018 50 kilometres	1934: Jānis Daliņš (LAT) 1938: Harold Whitlock (GBR) 1946: John Ljunggren (SWE) 1950: Pino Dordoni (ITA) 1954: Vladimir Ukhov (URS) 1958: Yevgeny Maskinskov (URS) 1962: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1966: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1969: Christoph Höhne (GDR) 1971: Veniamin Soldatenko (URS) 1974: Christoph Höhne (GDR) 1978: Jorge Llopart (ESP) 1982: Reima Salonen (FIN) 1986: Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 1990: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1994: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) 1998: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2002: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2006: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2010: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2014: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2018: Maryan Zakalnytskyy (UKR)
2022–present 35 kilometres	2022: Miguel Ángel López (ESP)

1934–2018
50 kilometres