1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Events at the 1962 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

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, on 14 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Abdon Pamich  Italy
Silver	Grigoriy Panichkin  Soviet Union
Bronze	Donald Thompson  United Kingdom

Results

Final

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:19:46.6
02 !	Grigoriy Panichkin	Soviet Union	4:24:35.6
03 !	Donald Thompson	United Kingdom	4:29:00.2
4	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:29:37.8
5	John Ljunggren	Sweden	4:30:19.8
6	István Havasi	Hungary	4:34:14.8
7	Hannes Koch	East Germany	4:38:34.0
8	Horst Astroth	East Germany	4:39:49.0
9	Ingvar Green	Sweden	4:40:08.0
10	Joël Vanderhaegen	Belgium	4:41:31.0
11	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:42:23.0
12	Ladislav Moc	Czechoslovakia	4:48:31.6
13	Eric Hall	United Kingdom	4:55:47.0
14	Alfred Leiser	Switzerland	4:57:28.0
15	Stefano Serchinic	Italy	5:13:20.4
16	Anatoliy Vedyakov	Soviet Union	DNF
17	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	DNF
18	Elio Massi	Italy	DNF
19	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	DNF
20	Grigoriy Klimov	Soviet Union	DQ
21	Ray Middleton	United Kingdom	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References