The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.
Medalists Gold Jorge Llopart Silver Venyamin Soldatenko Bronze Jan Ornoch
Results
Final 2 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jorge Llopart 3:53:29.9 CR Venyamin Soldatenko 3:55:12.1 Jan Ornoch 3:55:15.9 4 Otto Barch 3:57:23.7 5 Viktor Dorovskiy 3:57:26.7 6 Vittorio Visini 3:57:42.8 7 Sandro Bellucci 3:58:25.9 8 Olaf Pilarski 4:00:03.8 9 Mathias Kroel 4:00:11.9 10 Mario Kreber 4:01:03.7 11 Bengt Simonsen 4:03:34.6 12 Gerhard Weidner 4:04:01.9 13 Hans Binder 4:04:12.4 14 Ján Dzurňák 4:04:40.0 15 Paolo Grecucci 4:05:46.8 16 Ladislav Vitéz 4:07:55.8 17 Lennart Lundgren 4:09:54.7 18 Dominique Guebey 4:09:57.0 19 László Sátor 4:10:22.4 20 Stig-Olaf Elofsson 4:12:39.1 21 Seppo Immonen 4:16:52.5 22 Cornel Patusinschi 4:23:26.9 23 Ian Richards 4:27:09.3 David Cotton DNF Lars Ove Moen DNF Gérard Lelièvre DNF Lucien Faber DNF José Marín DNF Agustín Jorba DNF Reima Salonen DNF Bogusław Kmiecik DNF Erling Andersen DNF Jaromír Vaňous DNF Bohdan Bułakowski DNF Heinrich Schubert DQ Yancho Kamenov DQ
Participation According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.
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