1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, on 12 September 1962.

Medalists

Gold	Kenneth Matthews Great Britain
Silver	Hans-Georg Reimann East Germany
Bronze	Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union

Results

Final

12 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kenneth Matthews	Great Britain	1:35:54.8
	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:36:14.2
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:36:37.6
4	Anatoly 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	Great Britain	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	Great Britain	1:50:08.2
16	Ozbi Vister	Yugoslavia	1:56:21.4
	Stavros Hadjilaios	Greece	DNF
	Sezer Selek	Turkey	DNF
	Tommy Kristensen	Denmark	DQ

Participation

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

• Belgium (1)
• Denmark (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• East Germany (2)
• France (1)
• Greece (1)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Poland (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Sweden (2)
• Turkey (1)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (1)
• Yugoslavia (1)