1967 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1967 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	4th
Date	October 15
Host city	Bad Saarow, Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder), German Democratic Republic
Nations participating	8
Athletes participating	48
Races	2
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The 1967 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Bad Saarow, German Democratic Republic, on October 15, 1967. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Nikolay Smaga (URS)	1:28:39	Vladimir Golubnichiy (URS)	1:28:58	Ron Laird (USA)	1:29:13
50 km walk	Christoph Höhne (GDR)	4:09:09	Peter Selzer (GDR)	4:11:40	Aleksandr Shcherbina (URS)	4:13:07
Men (Team)
Team	East Germany	128 pts	Soviet Union	107 pts	United Kingdom	104 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Nikolay Smaga  URS	1:28:39
02 !	Vladimir Golubnichiy  URS	1:28:58
03 !	Ron Laird  USA	1:29:13
4	Gerhard Sperling  GDR	1:30:15
5	Peter Frenkel  GDR	1:30:30
6	Peter Fullager  GBR	1:31:34
7	Hans-Joachim Pathus  GDR	1:33:07
8	John Webb  GBR	1:33:56
9	Ron Wallwork  GBR	1:34:54
10	Julius Müller  FRG	1:35:00
11	Bernhard Nermerich  FRG	1:35:37
12	Åke Söderlund  SWE	1:36:02
13	Karl-Heinz Pape  FRG	1:36:06
14	István Göri  HUN	1:36:09
15	Pasquale Busca  ITA	1:36:22
16	Tom Dooley  USA	1:37:21
17	János Dalmati  HUN	1:37:53
18	Andor Antal  HUN	1:38:03
19	Örjan Andersson  SWE	1:38:15
20	Gabriele Nigro  ITA	1:40:48
21	Ingvar Pettersson  SWE	1:41:39
22	Jack Mortland  USA	1:42:14
23	Gennadiy Solodov  URS	1:48:24
—	Nicola De Vito  ITA	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Christoph Höhne  GDR	4:09:09
02 !	Peter Selzer  GDR	4:11:40
03 !	Aleksandr Shcherbina  URS	4:13:07
4	Kurt Sakowski  GDR	4:13:52
5	Sergey Bondarenko  URS	4:21:52
6	Don Thompson  GBR	4:25:21
7	Stig Lindberg  SWE	4:28:53
8	Ray Middleton  GBR	4:29:23
9	Shaun Lightman  GBR	4:31:24
10	Igor Della-Rossa  URS	4:31:28
11	István Havasi  HUN	4:33:01
12	Gerhard Weidner  FRG	4:35:25
13	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor  FRG	4:36:53
14	Max Sjöholm  SWE	4:40:21
15	Sante Mancini  ITA	4:41:26
16	Antonio De Gaetano  ITA	4:41:49
17	Goetz Klopfer  USA	4:46:42
18	Werner Hupfeld  FRG	4:50:46
19	Luigi De Rosso  ITA	4:51:50
20	James Clifton  USA	4:57:07
21	János Szabó  HUN	5:02:53
22	Larry Young  USA	5:06:08
23	Tibor Balajcza  HUN	5:18:05
—	Stefan Ingvarsson  SWE	DNF

Team

Place	Country	Points
01 !	East Germany	128 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	107 pts
03 !	United Kingdom	104 pts
4	West Germany	73 pts
5	Sweden	52 pts
6	United States	50 pts
7	Hungary	46 pts
8	Italy	40 pts
9	South Africa	DNS

Participation

The participation of 48 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, Hungary, the United States, and the Republic of South Africa proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Dole, France, August 26/27 Rank Nation Points 1  Italy 75 pts 2  West Germany 65 pts 3  France 41 pts 4   Switzerland 37 pts 5  Belgium 22 pts

Zone 2 København, Denmark, September 9/10 Rank Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 86 pts 2  Sweden 60 pts 3  Czechoslovakia 37 pts 4  Bulgaria 34 pts 5  Denmark 23 pts

See also

• 1967 Race Walking Year Ranking

References