1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	7th
Date	October 11–12
Host city	Le Grand-Quevilly, Haute-Normandie, France
Nations participating	9 + 5 guest
Athletes participating	71 + 38 guest
Races	2 + 1 invited
← 1973 Lugano 1977 Milton Keynes →

The 1975 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Le Grand-Quevilly, France, on October 11–12, 1975. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy. For the first time, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)	1:26:12	Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)	1:26:20	Peter Frenkel (GDR)	1:26:54
50 km walk	Yevgeniy Lyungin (URS)	4:03:42	Gerhard Weidner (FRG)	4:09:58	Vladimir Svechnikov (URS)	4:11:31
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Soviet Union	117 pts	East Germany	105 pts	West Germany	102 pts
Women†
5 km walk†	Margareta Simu (SWE)	23:40	Siv Gustavsson (SWE)	24:33	Britt Holmquist (SWE)	24:45
Team (Women)†
Team (Women)†	Sweden	70 pts	United Kingdom	46 pts	France	42 pts

^†: Invitation event.

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  GDR	1:26:12
02 !	Bernd Kannenberg  FRG	1:26:20
03 !	Peter Frenkel  GDR	1:26:54
4	Otto Barch  URS	1:27:35
5	Vittorio Visini  ITA	1:27:38
6	Brian Adams  GBR	1:27:46
7	Aleksey Troitskiy  URS	1:27:59
8	Olly Flynn  GBR	1:28:08
9	Yevgeniy Ivchenko  URS	1:28:39
10	Mikhail Alekseyev  URS	1:28:58
11	Hans-Georg Reimann  GDR	1:29:03
12	Armando Zambaldo  ITA	1:29:29
13	Imre Stankovics  HUN	1:29:55
14	Gérard Lelièvre  FRA	1:30:18
15	Domenico Carpentieri  ITA	1:30:25
16	Hartwig Gauder  GDR	1:30:37
17	Amos Seddon  GBR	1:30:42
18	János Tábori  HUN	1:30:53
19	Bengt Simonsen  SWE	1:31:13
20	Göran Aneheim  SWE	1:31:57
21	Sandro Bellucci  ITA	1:33:03
22	Alain Moulinet  FRA	1:33:17
23	Daniel Björkgren  SWE	1:33:27
24	Heinz Mayr  FRG	1:33:40
25	Owe Hemmingsson  SWE	1:33:49
26	Bob Kitchen  USA	1:34:15
27	László Sátor  HUN	1:34:48
28	Roger Mills  GBR	1:35:23
29	Dominique Guebey  FRA	1:35:42
30	Bernhard Schmidt  FRG	1:37:26
31	Wayne Glusker  USA	1:38:07
32	Helmut Stolte  FRG	1:39:15
33	Michel Leveque  FRA	1:42:41
—	Sándor Forian  HUN	DQ
—	Jerry Brown  USA	DQ
—	John Knifton  USA	DQ

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Yevgeniy Lyungin  URS	4:03:42
02 !	Gerhard Weidner  FRG	4:09:58
03 !	Vladimir Svechnikov  URS	4:11:31
4	John Warhurst  GBR	4:14:35
5	Franco Vecchio  ITA	4:15:33
6	Ferenc Danovsky  HUN	4:15:59
7	Heinrich Schubert  FRG	4:16:11
8	Werner Galina  GDR	4:16:30
9	Hans Binder  FRG	4:18:08
10	Jean-Pierre Garcia  FRA	4:19:35
11	Max Sjöholm  SWE	4:21:10
12	János Dalmati  HUN	4:21:48
13	Paolo Grecucci  ITA	4:23:55
14	Olaf Pilarski  GDR	4:24:59
15	Roy Thorpe  GBR	4:26:48
16	Hans Michalski  FRG	4:27:31
17	Stig-Olof Elovsson  SWE	4:29:03
18	Lennart Lundgren  SWE	4:30:05
19	Alec Banyard  GBR	4:30:25
20	Charley Fogg  GBR	4:31:15
21	August Hirt  USA	4:31:19
22	Mirko Scussel  ITA	4:36:11
23	Luc Gauthier  FRA	4:39:48
24	Claude Sauriat  FRA	4:47:05
25	Karoly Orban  HUN	4:55:37
26	Tom Knatt  USA	5:01:10
27	Paul Eddig  USA	5:15:08
—	Didier David  FRA	DQ
—	Ralf Knütter  GDR	DQ
—	Matthias Kroel  GDR	DQ
—	Kåre Moen  SWE	DQ
—	Veniamin Soldatenko  URS	DQ
—	Lajos Lanyl  HUN	DNF
—	Rosario Valore  ITA	DNF
—	Ray Somers  USA	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Soviet Union	117 pts
02 !	East Germany	105 pts
03 !	West Germany	102 pts
4	United Kingdom	102 pts
5	Italy	100 pts
6	Hungary	76 pts
7	Sweden	69 pts
8	France	59 pts
9	United States	24 pts

Women's 5 km^†

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Margareta Simu  SWE	23:40
02 !	Siv Gustavsson  SWE	24:33
03 !	Britt Holmquist  SWE	24:45
4	Thorill Gylder  NOR	25:05
5	Sue Brodock  USA	25:07
6	Marion Fawkes  GBR	25:12
7	Elisabet Olsson  SWE	28:14
8	Monika Karlsson  SWE	28:14
9	Karin Møller  DEN	26:00
10	Ginney Lovell  GBR	26:05
11	Monika Glöckler  FRG	26:16
12	Nadine Mogis  FRA	26:17
13	Jeanine Piroux  FRA	26:22
14	Dominique Terraz  FRA	26:22
15	Mia Kjølberg  NOR	26:34
16	Margot Vetterli   SUI	26:45
17	Marica Zethof  NED	26:53
18	Sylvia Saunders/Black  GBR	27:05
19	Heike Penner  FRG	27:12
20	Laila Nielsen  DEN	27:22
21	Gerd Gylder  NOR	27:32
22	Becky Villalvaso  USA	27:35
23	Tina Thomsen  DEN	27:38
24	Regine Broders  FRG	27:44
25	Eileen Smith  USA	27:50
26	Ulla Kristiansen  DEN	27:59
27	Sandy Briscoe  USA	28:14
28	Fröydis Hilsen  NOR	28:17
29	Edith Häppt   SUI	28:35
30	Anne Fröberg  FIN	29:12
31	Olivia Lorenz  FRG	29:18
32	Chantal Vallée  FRA	30:09
33	Adri van Dirven  NED	32:50
—	Jacqueline Delassaux  FRA	DQ
—	Judy Farr  GBR	DQ
—	Cynthia Johnson  USA	DQ
—	Lisa Metheny  USA	DQ
—	Jacoba Kemna  NED	DNF

^†: Invitation event.

Team (Women)^†

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Sweden	70 pts
02 !	United Kingdom	46 pts
03 !	France	42 pts
4	Norway	40 pts
5	Denmark	31 pts
6	West Germany	29 pts
7	United States	26 pts
8	Netherlands	14 pts

^†: Invitation event.

Participation

The participation of 109 athletes (71 men/38 women) from 14 countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, Italy, the United States, and France proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Odense, Denmark, September 20/21 Rank Nation Points 1  United Kingdom 90 pts 2  Sweden 80 pts 3  Poland 74 pts 4  Belgium 53 pts 5  Norway 23 pts 6  Denmark 18 pts

Zone 2 Štětí, Czechoslovakia, September 20 Rank Nation Points 1  Hungary 65 pts 2  West Germany 53 pts 3  Czechoslovakia 49 pts 4  Romania 43 pts 5  Spain 32 pts

See also

• 1975 Race Walking Year Ranking

References