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1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Nikolay Smaga
 Soviet Union
Silver Gerhard Sperling
 East Germany
Bronze Paul Nihill
 Great Britain

Results

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Final

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10 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union 1:27:20.2 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gerhard Sperling  East Germany 1:27:29.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 Charles Sutherland  Great Britain 1:34:15.0
14 Andor Antal  Hungary 1:35:09.6
15 Sándor Fórián  Hungary 1:35:24.2
16 Kåre Moen  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 Kjell Lund  Norway 1:40:28.6

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014