1974 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk
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 50 kilometres race walk at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, on 7 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Christoph Höhne  East Germany
Silver	Otto Barch  Soviet Union
Bronze	Peter Selzer  East Germany

7 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christoph Höhne	East Germany	3:59:05.6	CR
	Otto Barch	Soviet Union	4:02:38.8
	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:04:28.4
4	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:05:43.6
5	Venyamin Soldatenko	Soviet Union	4:09:31.6
6	Winfried Skotnicki	East Germany	4:10:19.0
7	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:10:52.4
8	Heinrich Schubert	West Germany	4:16:05.0
9	Bernhard Kannenberg	West Germany	4:21:47.8
10	Domenico Carpentieri	Italy	4:22:42.6
11	John Warhurst	Great Britain	4:26:34.6
12	Rosario Valore	Italy	4:30:22.8
13	Daniel Björkgren	Sweden	4:31:08.8
14	Bob Dobson	Great Britain	4:35:26.4
15	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	4:36:18.2
	Milan Bartos	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	Yancho Kamenov	Bulgaria	DNF
	Örjan Andersson	Sweden	DQ
	Sergey Bondarenko	Soviet Union	DQ

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.