1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	7th
Date	October 11–12
Host city	Le Grand-Quevilly, Haute-Normandie, France
Events	2 + 1 invited
Participation	71 + 38 guest athletes from 9 + 5 guest nations
← 1973 Lugano 1977 Milton Keynes →

The 1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Le Grand-Quevilly, France, on October 11–12, 1975. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy. For the first time, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)	1:26:12	Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)	1:26:20	Peter Frenkel (GDR)	1:26:54
50 km walk	Yevgeniy Lyungin (URS)	4:03:42	Gerhard Weidner (FRG)	4:09:58	Vladimir Svechnikov (URS)	4:11:31
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Soviet Union	117 pts	East Germany	105 pts	West Germany	102 pts
Women†
5 km walk†	Margareta Simu (SWE)	23:40	Siv Gustavsson (SWE)	24:33	Britt Holmquist (SWE)	24:45
Team (Women)†
Team (Women)†	Sweden	70 pts	United Kingdom	46 pts	France	42 pts

^†: Invitation event.

Results[]

Men's 20 km[]

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany (GDR)	1:26:12
	Bernd Kannenberg	West Germany (FRG)	1:26:20
	Peter Frenkel	East Germany (GDR)	1:26:54
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union (URS)	1:27:35
5	Vittorio Visini	Italy (ITA)	1:27:38
6	Brian Adams	Great Britain (GBR)	1:27:46
7		Soviet Union (URS)	1:27:59
8	Olly Flynn	Great Britain (GBR)	1:28:08
9	Yevgeniy Ivchenko	Soviet Union (URS)	1:28:39
10		Soviet Union (URS)	1:28:58
11	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany (GDR)	1:29:03
12	Armando Zambaldo	Italy (ITA)	1:29:29
13	Imre Stankovics	Hungary (HUN)	1:29:55
14	Gérard Lelièvre	France (FRA)	1:30:18
15	Domenico Carpentieri	Italy (ITA)	1:30:25
16	Hartwig Gauder	East Germany (GDR)	1:30:37
17		Great Britain (GBR)	1:30:42
18		Hungary (HUN)	1:30:53
19	Bengt Simonsen	Sweden (SWE)	1:31:13
20		Sweden (SWE)	1:31:57
21	Sandro Bellucci	Italy (ITA)	1:33:03
22		France (FRA)	1:33:17
23	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden (SWE)	1:33:27
24	Heinz Mayr	West Germany (FRG)	1:33:40
25		Sweden (SWE)	1:33:49
26		United States (USA)	1:34:15
27	László Sátor	Hungary (HUN)	1:34:48
28	Roger Mills	Great Britain (GBR)	1:35:23
29	Dominique Guebey	France (FRA)	1:35:42
30		West Germany (FRG)	1:37:26
31		United States (USA)	1:38:07
32		West Germany (FRG)	1:39:15
33		France (FRA)	1:42:41
—		Hungary (HUN)	DQ
—		United States (USA)	DQ
—		United States (USA)	DQ

Men's 50 km[]

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Yevgeniy Lyungin	Soviet Union (URS)	4:03:42
	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany (FRG)	4:09:58
	Vladimir Svechnikov	Soviet Union (URS)	4:11:31
4	John Warhurst	Great Britain (GBR)	4:14:35
5		Italy (ITA)	4:15:33
6		Hungary (HUN)	4:15:59
7		West Germany (FRG)	4:16:11
8		East Germany (GDR)	4:16:30
9		West Germany (FRG)	4:18:08
10		France (FRA)	4:19:35
11		Sweden (SWE)	4:21:10
12	János Dalmati	Hungary (HUN)	4:21:48
13	Paolo Grecucci	Italy (ITA)	4:23:55
14		East Germany (GDR)	4:24:59
15	Roy Thorpe	Great Britain (GBR)	4:26:48
16		West Germany (FRG)	4:27:31
17		Sweden (SWE)	4:29:03
18		Sweden (SWE)	4:30:05
19		Great Britain (GBR)	4:30:25
20		Great Britain (GBR)	4:31:15
21		United States (USA)	4:31:19
22		Italy (ITA)	4:36:11
23		France (FRA)	4:39:48
24		France (FRA)	4:47:05
25		Hungary (HUN)	4:55:37
26		United States (USA)	5:01:10
27		United States (USA)	5:15:08
—		France (FRA)	DQ
—		East Germany (GDR)	DQ
—		East Germany (GDR)	DQ
—		Sweden (SWE)	DQ
—	Veniamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union (URS)	DQ
—		Hungary (HUN)	DNF
—		Italy (ITA)	DNF
—		United States (USA)	DNF

Team (men)[]

The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results.^[2]

Place	Country	Points
	Soviet Union	117 pts
	East Germany	105 pts
	West Germany	102 pts
4	United Kingdom	102 pts
5	Italy	100 pts
6	Hungary	76 pts
7	Sweden	69 pts
8	France	59 pts
9	United States	24 pts

Women's 5 km^†[]

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Margareta Simu	Sweden (SWE)	23:40
	Siv Gustavsson	Sweden (SWE)	24:33
	Britt Holmquist	Sweden (SWE)	24:45
4	Thorill Gylder	Norway (NOR)	25:05
5		United States (USA)	25:07
6	Marion Fawkes	Great Britain (GBR)	25:12
7		Sweden (SWE)	28:14
8	Monika Karlsson	Sweden (SWE)	28:14
9		Denmark (DEN)	26:00
10		Great Britain (GBR)	26:05
11		West Germany (FRG)	26:16
12		France (FRA)	26:17
13		France (FRA)	26:22
14		France (FRA)	26:22
15		Norway (NOR)	26:34
16		Switzerland (SUI)	26:45
17		Netherlands (NED)	26:53
18		Great Britain (GBR)	27:05
19		West Germany (FRG)	27:12
20		Denmark (DEN)	27:22
21		Norway (NOR)	27:32
22		United States (USA)	27:35
23		Denmark (DEN)	27:38
24		West Germany (FRG)	27:44
25		United States (USA)	27:50
26		Denmark (DEN)	27:59
27		United States (USA)	28:14
28		Norway (NOR)	28:17
29		Switzerland (SUI)	28:35
30		Finland (FIN)	29:12
31		West Germany (FRG)	29:18
32		France (FRA)	30:09
33		Netherlands (NED)	32:50
—		France (FRA)	DQ
—		Great Britain (GBR)	DQ
—		United States (USA)	DQ
—		United States (USA)	DQ
—		Netherlands (NED)	DNF

^†: Invitation event.

Team (women)^†[]

Place	Country	Points
	Sweden	70 pts
	United Kingdom	46 pts
	France	42 pts
4	Norway	40 pts
5	Denmark	31 pts
6	West Germany	29 pts
7	United States	26 pts
8	Netherlands	14 pts

^†: Invitation event.

Participation[]

The participation of 109 athletes (71 men/38 women) from 14 countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds[]

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, Italy, the United States, and France proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1[] Odense, Denmark, September 20/21 Rank Nation Points 1  United Kingdom 90 pts 2  Sweden 80 pts 3  Poland 74 pts 4  Belgium 53 pts 5  Norway 23 pts 6  Denmark 18 pts

Zone 2[] Štětí, Czechoslovakia, September 20 Rank Nation Points 1  Hungary 65 pts 2  West Germany 53 pts 3  Czechoslovakia 49 pts 4  Romania 43 pts 5  Spain 32 pts

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