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1962 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 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, on 12 September 1962.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Kenneth Matthews
 Great Britain
Silver Hans-Georg Reimann
 East Germany
Bronze Volodymyr Holubnychy
 Soviet Union

Results

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Final

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12 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kenneth Matthews  Great Britain 1:35:54.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hans-Georg Reimann  East Germany 1:36:14.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union 1:36:37.6
4 Anatoly 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  Great Britain 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  Great Britain 1:50:08.2
16 Ozbi Vister  Yugoslavia 1:56:21.4
Stavros Hadjilaios  Greece DNF
Sezer Selek  Turkey DNF
Tommy Kristensen  Denmark DQ

Participation

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

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014