1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Men's 20 kilometres walk
at the European Athletics Championships
1998 European
Athletics Championships
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These are the official results of the Men's 20 km walk event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with the race held on 18 August 1998.

Medalists

Gold Russia Ilya Markov
Russia (RUS)
Silver Latvia Aigars Fadejevs
Latvia (LAT)
Bronze Spain Paquillo Fernández
Spain (ESP)

Abbreviations

  • All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Bu Lingtang (CHN) 1:18:04 April 7, 1994 China Beijing, PR China
Event Record  Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) 1:18:45 August 8, 1994 Finland Helsinki, Finland

Final ranking

Rank Athlete Time Note
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Ilya Markov (RUS) 1:21:10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) 1:21:25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:21:39
4  Andreas Erm (GER) 1:21.53
5  Sándor Urbanik (HUN) 1:22.12
6  Ivan Trotski (BLR) 1:22.46
7  Denis Langlois (FRA) 1:23.02
8  Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS) 1:23.32
9  Valentí Massana (ESP) 1:23.36
10  Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) 1:25.06 SB
11  Michele Didoni (ITA) 1:25.54
12  Alessandro Gandellini (ITA) 1:25.57
13  José Urbano (POR) 1:26.04
14  Claus Jørgensen (DEN) 1:26.28
15  Igor Kollár (SVK) 1:26.43
16  Anthony Gillet (FRA) 1:27.07
17  Róbert Valíček (SVK) 1:27.25
18  Gyula Dudás (HUN) 1:27.51
19  Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA) 1:27.56
20  João Vieira (POR) 1:29.38
21  Jiří Malysa (CZE) 1:30.16
22  Spiridon Kastanis (GRE) 1:30.19
23  André Höhne (GER) 1:32.28
24  Erik Kalina (SVK) 1:35.55
25  Michael Casey (IRL) 1:38.58
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—  Andrey Makarov (BLR) DSQ
—  Daniel Plaza (ESP) DSQ
—  Birger Fält (SWE) DSQ
—  Artur Meleshkevich (BLR) DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—  Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) DNF
—  Jan Staaf (SWE) DNF
—  Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) DNF
—  Pierce O'Callaghan (IRL) DNF

See also

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