1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.[1]
Medalists[]
| Gold | Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union
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| Silver | Gerhard Sperling East Germany
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| Bronze | Paul Nihill Great Britain
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Results[]
Final[]
10 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Nikolay Smaga | Soviet Union |
1:27:20.2 | CR |
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Gerhard Sperling | East Germany |
1:27:29.0 | |
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Paul Nihill | Great Britain |
1:27:34.8 | |
| 4 | Peter Frenkel | East Germany |
1:27:52.8 | |
| 5 | Hans-Georg Reimann | East Germany |
1:28:56.8 | |
| 6 | Phil Embleton | Great Britain |
1:29:31.6 | |
| 7 | Boris Yakovlev | Soviet Union |
1:29:49.4 | |
| 8 | Yevgeniy Ivchenko | Soviet Union |
1:31:32.2 | |
| 9 | Bernhard Kannenberg |  West Germany |
1:32:06.4 | |
| 10 | Pasquale Busca |  Italy |
1:32:44.2 | |
| 11 | Antal Kiss |  Hungary |
1:33:15.4 | |
| 12 | Charles Sowa |  Luxembourg |
1:33:54.6 | |
| 13 | Great Britain |
1:34:15.0 | ||
| 14 | Hungary |
1:35:09.6 | ||
| 15 | Hungary |
1:35:24.2 | ||
| 16 |  Norway |
1:35:28.2 | ||
| 17 | Jan Ornoch |  Poland |
1:35:33.4 | |
| 18 | Stefan Ingvarsson |  Sweden |
1:36:17.2 | |
| 19 | Hans Tenggren | Sweden |
1:36:54.8 | |
| 20 | Wilfried Wesch | West Germany |
1:37:39.4 | |
| 21 | Jan Rolstad | Norway |
1:39:14.8 | |
| 22 | Norway |
1:40:28.6 |
Participation[]
According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.
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References[]
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014
Categories:
- Events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships
- Racewalking at the European Athletics Championships