1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 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 20 kilometres race walk at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, on 12 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Kenneth Matthews  United Kingdom
Silver	Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany
Bronze	Vladimir Golubnichiy  Soviet Union

Results

Final

12 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Kenneth Matthews	United Kingdom	1:35:54.8
02 !	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:36:14.2
03 !	Vladimir Golubnichiy	Soviet Union	1:36:37.6
4	Anatoliy Vedyakov	Soviet Union	1:37:23.6
5	Lennart Back	Sweden	1:38:16.2
6	Dieter Lindner	East Germany	1:38:34.8
7	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	1:38:42.6
8	Franciszek Szyszka	Poland	1:40:30.8
9	Erik Söderlund	Sweden	1:40:45.4
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:41:24.2
11	Robert Clark	United Kingdom	1:41:30.0
12	Henri Delerue	France	1:41:58.2
13	Joël Vanderhaegen	Belgium	1:42:31.8
14	Karl-Heinz Pape	West Germany	1:45:39.8
15	Arthur Thomson	United Kingdom	1:50:08.2
16	Ozbi Vister	Yugoslavia	1:56:21.4
17	Stavros Hadjilaios	Greece	DNF
18	Sezer Selek	Turkey	DNF
19	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

References