1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	5th
Date	October 10
Host city	Eschborn, Hessen, Federal Republic of Germany
Nations participating	8
Athletes participating	60
Races	2
← 1967 Bad Saarow 1973 Lugano →

The 1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, on October 10, 1970. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR)	1:26:55	Vladimir Golubnichiy (URS)	1:27:22	Peter Frenkel (GDR)	1:27:33
50 km walk	Christoph Höhne (GDR)	4:04:36	Veniamin Soldatenko (URS)	4:09:52	Burkhard Leuschke (GDR)	4:11:10
Men (Team)
Team	East Germany	134 pts	Soviet Union	125 pts	West Germany	88 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Hans-Georg Reimann  GDR	1:26:55
02 !	Vladimir Golubnichiy  URS	1:27:22
03 !	Peter Frenkel  GDR	1:27:33
4	Nikolay Smaga  URS	1:28:09
5	Gennadiy Agapov  URS	1:28:25
6	Gerhard Sperling  GDR	1:28:48
7	Wilfried Wesch  FRG	1:30:16
8	Dave Romansky  USA	1:30:47
9	Tom Dooley  USA	1:30:50
10	Ron Wallwork  GBR	1:31:36
11	Bernhard Nermerich  FRG	1:32:14
12	Pasquale Busca  ITA	1:32:31
13	Edoardo Quirino  ITA	1:32:42
14	Andor Antal  HUN	1:32:50
15	Paul Nihill  GBR	1:33:10
16	Gabriele Nigro  ITA	1:33:53
17	Siegfried Zschiegner  GDR	1:34:01
18	Shaun Lightman  GBR	1:34:38
19	Heinz Mayr  FRG	1:34:55
20	Stefan Ingvarsson  SWE	1:35:06
21	Lennart Back  SWE	1:35:29
22	Hans Tenggren  SWE	1:35:58
23	Ronald Daniel  USA	1:37:02
24	Ronald Kulik  USA	1:37:38
25	Gerd Schuth  FRG	1:38:29
26	Kåre Moen  SWE	1:40:46
27	János Tábori  HUN	1:40:50
28	Robert Hughes  GBR	1:41:41
29	Sándor Forian  HUN	1:44:09
—	Nicola De Vito  ITA	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Christoph Höhne  GDR	4:04:36
02 !	Veniamin Soldatenko  URS	4:09:52
03 !	Burkhard Leuschke  GDR	4:11:10
4	Peter Selzer  GDR	4:11:48
5	Winfried Skotnicki  GDR	4:13:33
6	Yevgeniy Lyungin  URS	4:14:50
7	Herbert Meier  FRG	4:15:52
8	Otto Barch  URS	4:16:47
9	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor  FRG	4:18:41
10	Örjan Andersson  SWE	4:19:02
11	Ray Middleton  GBR	4:19:58
12	Antal Kiss  HUN	4:20:31
13	Bernd Kannenberg  FRG	4:21:44
14	Walter Sgardello  ITA	4:26:25
15	Bob Dobson  GBR	4:26:59
16	John Knifton  USA	4:28:42
17	Domenico Carpentieri  ITA	4:31:26
18	Gerhard Weidner  FRG	4:32:52
19	Goetz Klopfer  USA	4:33:24
20	Stig Lindberg  SWE	4:34:03
21	John Warhurst  GBR	4:34:31
22	Bob Kitchen  USA	4:37:54
23	Armando Zambaldo  ITA	4:40:17
24	Ken Harding  GBR	4:42:04
25	Tivadar Schiller  HUN	4:48:22
26	Ingvar Pettersson  SWE	4:53:49
—	István Havasi  HUN	DNF
—	Vittorio Visini  ITA	DNF
—	Daniel Björkgren  SWE	DNF
—	Jim Lopes  USA	DNF

Team

Place	Country	Points
01 !	East Germany	134 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	125 pts
03 !	West Germany	88 pts
4	United Kingdom	65 pts
5	Italy	59 pts
6	United States	59 pts
7	Sweden	40 pts
8	Hungary	31 pts
9	India	DNS

Participation

The participation of 60 athletes from 8 countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the United Kingdom, India, the United States, and the Soviet Union proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Odense, Denmark, August 15/16 Rank Nation Points 1  West Germany 98 pts 2  Sweden 87 pts 3  France 69 pts 4  Norway 38 pts 5  Denmark 29 pts 6  Belgium 22 pts

Zone 2 Dunaújváros, Hungary, August 26/27 Rank Nation Points 1  Italy 44 pts 2  Hungary 40 pts 3  Czechoslovakia 39 pts 4   Switzerland 19 pts 5  Poland DNS  Spain DNS

See also

• 1970 Race Walking Year Ranking

References