1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.

Medalists

Gold	Roland Wieser East Germany
Silver	Pyotr Pochenchuk Soviet Union
Bronze	Anatoliy Solomin Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Roland Wieser	East Germany	1:23:11.5	CR
	Pyotr Pochenchuk	Soviet Union	1:23:43.0
	Anatoliy Solomin	Soviet Union	1:24:11.5
4	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:24:27.9
5	José Marín	Spain	1:24:38.1
6	Maurizio Damilano	Italy	1:24:57.5
7	Hartwig Gauder	East Germany	1:25:15.7
8	Roberto Buccione	Italy	1:25:40.9
9	Bohdan Bułakowski	Poland	1:25:56.8
10	Bo Gustafsson	Sweden	1:26:13.5
11	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:26:42.3
12	Alessandro Pezzatini	Italy	1:26:44.2
13	Juraj Benčík	Czechoslovakia	1:27:47.4
14	Svetozár Blažek	Czechoslovakia	1:27:49.3
15	Lucien Faber	Luxembourg	1:29:19.7
16	Stanisław Rola	Poland	1:29:22.0
17	Imre Stankovics	Hungary	1:29:33.3
18	Štefan Petrík	Czechoslovakia	1:30:08.4
19	Owe Hemmingsson	Sweden	1:30:44.2
20	Alfons Schwarz	West Germany	1:31:17.6
21	Roger-George Mills	Great Britain	1:31:52.5
22	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	1:32:08.9
23	Erling Andersen	Norway	1:32:13.0
24	Alf Brandt	Sweden	1:32:41.7
25	Brian Adams	Great Britain	1:33:08.2
26	Amos Seddom	Great Britain	1:34:17.8
27	Knut Arne Strømøy	Norway	1:36:01.9
	Dominique Guebey	France	DNF
	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller	East Germany	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

• Bulgaria (1)
• Czechoslovakia (3)
• East Germany (3)
• France (2)
• Hungary (1)
• Italy (3)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Norway (2)
• Poland (2)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Spain (1)
• Sweden (3)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (1)