1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	8th
Date	September 24–25
Host city	Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Nations participating	12 + 3 guest
Athletes participating	96 + 23 guest
Races	2 + 1 invitation
← 1975 Le Grand-Quevilly 1979 Eschborn →

The 1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, on September 24–25, 1977. For the first time, a new competition name IAAF Race Walking World Cup was introduced replacing the former Lugano Trophy. As in 1975, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event.

Complete results were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Daniel Bautista (MEX)	1:24:02	Domingo Colín (MEX)	1:24:31	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)	1:24:51
50 km walk	Raúl González (MEX)	4:04:16	Pedro Aroche (MEX)	4:04:55	Paolo Grecucci (ITA)	4:06:27
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Mexico	185 pts	East Germany	180 pts	Italy	160 pts
Women†
5 km walk†	Siv Gustavsson (SWE)	23:19	Carol Tyson (GBR)	23:46	Margareta Simu (SWE)	24:12

^†: Invitation event.

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Daniel Bautista MEX	1:24:02
02 !	Domingo Colín MEX	1:24:31
03 !	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller GDR	1:24:51
4	Maurizio Damilano ITA	1:25:33
5	Gérard Lelièvre FRA	1:26:48
6	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov URS	1:27:03
7	Roland Wieser GDR	1:27:09
8	Anatoliy Solomin URS	1:27:41
9	Armando Zambaldo ITA	1:27:53
10	Roberto Buccione ITA	1:28:28
11	Sandro Bellucci ITA	1:28:36
12	Nikolay Polozov URS	1:28:58
13	Hartwig Gauder GDR	1:29:51
14	Vladimir Golubnichiy URS	1:30:33
15	Juraj Bencík TCH	1:30:38
16	Jaroslaw Kazmierski POL	1:30:39
17	Bo Gustafsson SWE	1:30:43
18	Jan Dzurnák TCH	1:31:05
19	Jan Ornoch POL	1:31:09
20	Jean-Claude Decosse FRA	1:31:25
21	Zbigniew Gosławski POL	1:31:30
22	Dominique Guebey FRA	1:31:31
23	Mieczysław Górski POL	1:31:33
24	Werner Heyer GDR	1:32:02
25	Marcos Castro MEX	1:32:09
26	János Szálas HUN	1:32:18
27	Alfons Schwarz FRG	1:32:28
28	Štefan Petrík TCH	1:32:49
29	Lennart Lundgren SWE	1:32:58
30	Mike Holmes GBR	1:33:06
31	Bengt Simonsen SWE	1:33:09
32	Mick Greasley GBR	1:33:13
33	Roger Mills GBR	1:33:22
34	Jürgen Meyer FRG	1:33:26
35	Göran Aneheim SWE	1:33:38
36	Jim Heiring USA	1:33:40
37	Imre Stankovics HUN	1:33:46
38	Hans Michalski FRG	1:34:11
39	Amos Seddon GBR	1:34:31
40	Szaba Grandpierre HUN	1:35:04
41	Neal Pike USA	1:35:20
42	Jean-Pierre Garnung FRA	1:35:52
43	Wolfgang Werner FRG	1:36:11
44	Tivadar Szilagyi HUN	1:36:38
45	Sam Dibernando USA	1:39:48
—	Ángel Flores MEX	DQ
—	Todd Scully USA	DQ
—	Evûen Zedník TCH	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Raúl González MEX	4:04:16
02 !	Pedro Aroche MEX	4:04:55
03 !	Paolo Grecucci ITA	4:06:27
4	Veniamin Soldatenko URS	4:08:20
5	Ralf Knütter GDR	4:10:13
6	Steffen Müller GDR	4:14:34
7	László Sátor HUN	4:14:50
8	Heinrich Schubert FRG	4:15:15
9	Horst Matern GDR	4:15:50
10	Hans Binder FRG	4:17:23
11	Bohdan Bułakowski POL	4:18:05
12	Martín Bermúdez MEX	4:19:07
13	Larry Young USA	4:19:56
14	August Hirt USA	4:20:06
15	Franco Vecchio ITA	4:21:16
16	Leif Karlsson SWE	4:21:55
17	Brian Adams GBR	4:23:54
18	Feliks Sliwinski POL	4:24:05
19	Karl Degener FRG	4:24:11
20	Alain Moulinet FRA	4:24:34
21	Rosario Valore ITA	4:24:45
22	Owe Hemmingsson SWE	4:25:07
23	Mario Kerber GDR	4:25:27
24	Stig-Olof Elovsson SWE	4:25:38
25	Ladíslav Vitez TCH	4:25:45
26	Ferenc Danovsky HUN	4:26:06
27	Bob Dobson GBR	4:26:09
28	John Warhurst GBR	4:26:47
29	Luc Gauthier FRA	4:27:03
30	František Biro TCH	4:27:48
31	Yuriy Andryushchenko URS	4:28:37
32	Bogusław Kmiecik POL	4:29:15
33	Peter Hodkinson GBR	4:29:27
34	Jean-Pierre Garcia FRA	4:30:03
35	Franciszek Ustarbowski POL	4:36:39
36	Karoly Orban HUN	4:37:47
37	Jean-Louis Hauth FRA	4:38:00
38	Jaroslav Pták TCH	4:42:16
39	Vytautas Papas URS	4:46:46
—	Enrique Vera Ibanez MEX	DQ
—	Algis Sakalis URS	DQ
—	Gerhard Weidner FRG	DNF
—	Zoltán Rutkai HUN	DNF
—	Giancarlo Lisi ITA	DNF
—	Stefan Sjunnesson SWE	DNF
—	Josef Macek TCH	DNF
—	Tom Dooley USA	DNF
—	Dan OʼConnor USA	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Mexico	185 pts
02 !	East Germany	180 pts
03 !	Italy	160 pts
4	Soviet Union	128 pts
5	Poland	112 pts
6	West Germany	99 pts
7	France	99 pts
8	Sweden	94 pts
9	Czechoslovakia	82 pts
10	Hungary	69 pts
11	United Kingdom	69 pts
12	United States	56 pts

Women's 5 km^†

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Siv Gustavsson SWE	23:19
02 !	Carol Tyson GBR	23:46
03 !	Margareta Simu SWE	24:12
4	Judy Farr GBR	24:23
5	Britt Holmquist SWE	24:27
6	Elisabet Olsson SWE	24:51
7	Beverley Francis GBR	25:41
8	Ginney Lovell GBR	25:58
9	Christine Coleman GBR	26:01
10	Elaine Cox GBR	26:14
11	Irene Bateman GBR	26:24
12	Siobhan MacAuley GBR	27:39
13	Sheila Miller AUS	27:51
14	Pamela Reynolds IRL	27:58
15	Susan Till GBR	28:09
16	Carolyn Gee GBR	28:51
17	Shirley Rook GBR	29:03
18	Mary Brown GBR	29:27
19	Karen Bingham GBR	29:39
20	Julie Robery GBR	30:29
21	Linda Nicholls GBR	31:49
22	M. Servais BEL	35:52
—	Marion Fawkes GBR	DNF

^†: Invitation event.

Participation

The participation of 119 athletes (96 men/23 women) from countries is reported.

• Australia (-/1)
• Belgium (-/1)
• East Germany (8/-)
• France (8/-)
• Hungary (8/-)

• Ireland (-/1)
• Italy (8/-)
• Mexico (8/-)
• Poland (8/-)
• Soviet Union (8/)

• Sweden (8/4)
• Czechoslovakia (8/-)
• United Kingdom (8/16)
• United States (8/-)
• West Germany (8/-)

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and México proceeded directly to the final.

  Countries qualifying for the final are highlighted in green

Zone 1

San Remo, Italy, August 27/28

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Italy	58 pts
2	Hungary	50 pts
3	Spain	32 pts
4	Switzerland	18 pts
—	Bulgaria	DNS
	Romania	DNS

Zone 2

Vänersborg, Sweden, August 27

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Poland	53 pts
2	Sweden	51 pts
3	Finland	23 pts
4	Norway	21 pts

Zone 3

Lessines, Belgium, August 27/28

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	84 pts
2	France	64 pts
3	Belgium	49 pts
4	Netherlands	32 pts
5	Ireland	7 pts

See also

• 1977 Race Walking Year Ranking