1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	6th
Date	October 12–13
Host city	Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Nations participating	9
Athletes participating	68
Races	2
← 1970 Eschborn 1975 Le Grand-Quevilly →

The 1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Lugano, Switzerland, on October 12–13, 1973. 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)	1:29:31	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)	1:29:36	Ron Laird (USA)	1:30:45
50 km walk	Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)	3:56:51	Otto Barch (URS)	3:57:11	Christoph Höhne (GDR)	3:57:26
Men (Team)
Team	East Germany	139 pts	Soviet Union	134 pts	Italy	104 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Hans-Georg Reimann  GDR	1:29:31
02 !	Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller  GDR	1:29:36
03 !	Ron Laird  USA	1:30:45
4	Nikolay Smaga  URS	1:30:57
5	Yevgeniy Ivchenko  URS	1:31:33
6	Armando Zambaldo  ITA	1:31:42
7	Todd Scully  USA	1:32:24
8	Roger Mills  GBR	1:32:45
9	Pasquale Busca  ITA	1:33:04
10	Peter Frenkel  GDR	1:33:23
11	Siegfried Richter  FRG	1:33:33
12	Vladimir Resayev  URS	1:33:47
13	Abdon Pamich  ITA	1:33:56
14	Jerry Brown  USA	1:34:05
15	Siegfried Zschiegner  GDR	1:34:12
16	Roberto Buccione  ITA	1:34:38
17	Feliks Sliwinski  POL	1:34:45
18	John Warhurst  GBR	1:34:58
19	Jan Ornoch  POL	1:35:13
20	Amos Seddon  GBR	1:35:17
21	Stefan Ingvarsson  SWE	1:35:52
22	Mieczysław Górski  POL	1:36:04
23	Hans Tenggren  SWE	1:36:27
24	Roy Thorpe  GBR	1:37:40
25	Jan Raszka  POL	1:38:25
26	Manfred Kolvenbach  FRG	1:38:44
27	Bill Ranney  USA	1:39:11
28	Marcel Jobin  CAN	1:39:25
29	Helmut Stolte  FRG	1:39:36
30	Pat Farrelly  CAN	1:40:52
31	Kåre Moen  SWE	1:41:44
32	Karl-Heinz Merschenz  CAN	1:43:38
—	Heinz Mayr  FRG	DQ
—	Bo Gustafsson  SWE	DNF
—	Anatoliy Solomin  URS	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Bernd Kannenberg  FRG	3:56:51
02 !	Otto Barch  URS	3:57:11
03 !	Christoph Höhne  GDR	3:57:26
4	Veniamin Soldatenko  URS	4:01:34
5	Gerhard Weidner  FRG	4:01:59
6	Peter Selzer  GDR	4:02:11
7	Sergey Bondarenko  URS	4:07:52
8	Winfried Skotnicki  GDR	4:08:30
9	Vittorio Visini  ITA	4:09:25
10	Vladimir Svechnikov  URS	4:11:22
11	Matthias Kroel  GDR	4:12:25
12	Shaun Lightman  GBR	4:15:14
13	Heinrich Schubert  FRG	4:15:52
14	John Knifton  USA	4:17:49
15	Rosario Valore  ITA	4:18:17
16	Domenico Carpentieri  ITA	4:19:59
17	Leo Frey  FRG	4:20:30
18	Örjan Andersson  SWE	4:21:06
19	Ray Middleton  GBR	4:22:25
20	Floyd Godwin  USA	4:23:49
21	Henryk Wypich  POL	4:25:07
22	Franco Vecchio  ITA	4:25:44
23	Bob Dobson  GBR	4:27:32
24	William Weigle  USA	4:28:41
25	Bob Kitchen  USA	4:29:39
26	Stanisław Korneluk  POL	4:32:28
27	Alex Oakley  CAN	4:34:06
28	Max Sjöholm  SWE	4:34:47
29	Bo Fransson  SWE	4:36:12
30	Mike Holmes  GBR	4:37:54
31	Stanisław Chwiej  POL	4:39:06
32	Pat Farrelly  CAN	4:40:55
33	Karl-Heinz Merschenz  CAN	4:48:03
—	Marek Kaspryzk  POL	DNF
—	Owe Hemmingsson  SWE	DNF

Team

Place	Country	Points
01 !	East Germany	139 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	134 pts
03 !	Italy	104 pts
4	West Germany	95 pts
5	United States	95 pts
6	United Kingdom	81 pts
7	Poland	52 pts
8	Sweden	40 pts
9	Canada	18 pts

Participation

The participation of 68 athletes from 9 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 Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, and Canada proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 Borås, Sweden, September 8/9 Rank Nation Points 1  United Kingdom 97 pts 2  Sweden 84 pts 3  France 70 pts 4  Norway 34 pts 5  Denmark 31 pts 6  Ireland 28 pts

Zone 2 Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy, September 9 Rank Nation Points 1  Italy 104 pts 2  Poland 95 pts 3  Bulgaria 79 pts 4  Czechoslovakia 57 pts 5  Spain 56 pts 6  Hungary 48 pts 7   Switzerland 29 pts

References