1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 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
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
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The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 19 August 1958.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Stanley Vickers  Great Britain
Silver	Leonid Spirin  Soviet Union
Bronze	Lennart Back  Sweden

Results[]

Final[]

19 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Stanley Vickers	Great Britain	1:33:09.0	CR
	Leonid Spirin	Soviet Union	1:35:04.2
	Lennart Back	Sweden	1:35:22.2
4	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	1:35:38.4
5	Louis Marquis	Switzerland	1:35:59.4
6	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy	1:36:16.2
7	Siegfried Lefanczik	East Germany	1:39:18.6
8	Gabriel Reymond	Switzerland	1:39:18.6
9		Poland	1:39:44.0
10		France	1:40:34.6
11	Albert Johnson	Great Britain	1:41:54.4
12		Poland	1:43:53.2
	Dieter Lindner	East Germany	DQ
	Bruno Junk	Soviet Union	DQ

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

References[]