1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, on 18 September 1969.

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

Gold	Christoph Höhne East Germany
Silver	Peter Selzer East Germany
Bronze	Venyamin Soldatenko Soviet Union

Results

Final

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	4:12:32.8	CR
	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:16:09.6
	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	4:23:04.8
4	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:25:45.8
5	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	4:27:00.0
6	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:32:07.2
7	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:33:24.6
8	Alexander Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:34:25.8
9	Henri Delerue	France	4:35:10.4
10	János Dalmati	Hungary	4:38:09.0
11	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	4:45:15.0
12	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:45:53.4
13	Robert Rinchard	Belgium	5:09:46.0
14	Aynur Ayhan	Turkey	5:10:16.4
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF
	Antal Kiss	Hungary	DNF
	Vittorio Visini	Italy	DNF
	Guy Bailly	France	DNF
	Tore Brustad	Norway	DNF
	Odd Landehagen	Norway	DNF
	Bryan Elley	Great Britain	DNF
	Shaun Lightman	Great Britain	DNF
	Burkhard Leuschke	East Germany	DQ
	Sergey Bondarenko	Soviet Union	DQ
	Paavo Pohjolainen	Finland	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

• Belgium (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• East Germany (3)
• Finland (1)
• France (2)
• Hungary (2)
• Italy (2)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Norway (2)
• Poland (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Sweden (2)
• Turkey (1)
• Great Britain (3)