1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Events at the 1969 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
10,000 m		men
100 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		women
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 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, on 18 September 1969.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Christoph Höhne  East Germany
Silver	Peter Selzer  East Germany
Bronze	Venyamin Soldatenko  Soviet Union

Results

Final

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:12:32.8	CR
02 !	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:16:09.6
03 !	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	4:23:04.8
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:25:45.8
5	Ray Middleton	United Kingdom	4:27:00.0
6	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:32:07.2
7	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:33:24.6
8	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:34:25.8
9	Henri Delerue	France	4:35:10.4
10	János Dalmati	Hungary	4:38:09.0
11	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	4:45:15.0
12	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:45:53.4
13	Robert Rinchard	Belgium	5:09:46.0
14	Aynur Ayhan	Turkey	5:10:16.4
15	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF
16	Antal Kiss	Hungary	DNF
17	Vittorio Visini	Italy	DNF
18	Guy Bailly	France	DNF
19	Tore Brustad	Norway	DNF
20	Odd Landehagen	Norway	DNF
21	Bryan Elley	United Kingdom	DNF
22	Sahun Lightman	United Kingdom	DNF
23	Burkhard Leuschke	East Germany	DQ
24	Sergey Bondarenko	Soviet Union	DQ
25	Paavo Pohjolainen	Finland	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References