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

12 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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

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

Men

Women

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