Nordic Race Walking Championships

The Nordic Race Walking Championships (Norwegian: Nordisk mesterskap i kappgang) is an annual racewalking competition between athletes from the Nordic countries organised by Nordic Athletics. Established in 1957, it was a biennial competition until 2004. The events vary between road competitions and track competitions each edition. The 1975 and 1979 editions were open to non-Nordic athletes.[1]

Nordic Race Walking Championships
SportRacewalking
Founded1957
CountryFinland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland

The championships features two senior races: a men's 20 kilometres race walk and a women's 10 kilometres race walk. There are also six further age category competitions: 20 km walk for under-23 men, 10 km walk for under-23 women and under-20 men, and 5 kilometres race walk for under-20 women and both sexes under-18. A men's 50 kilometres race walk event was held at the championships until 2010. The age category events were held as the Nordic Junior Race Walking Match from 1966 to 2003, before being folded into the main championships.[2]

Editions

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  • The 1959 course was short.
Year Dates Place Country Edition
1957 25 August Gothenburg Sweden 1
1959 29–30 August Pori Finland 2
1961 26–27 August Copenhagen Denmark 3
1963 24–25 August Fredrikstad Norway 4
1965 21–22 August Örebro Sweden 5
1967 9–10 September Copenhagen Denmark 6
1969 2–3 August Taivassalo Finland 7
1971 24–25 July Gothenburg Sweden 8
1973 10–11 August Fredrikstad Norway 9
1975 19–20 July Odense Denmark 10
1977 6–7 August Helsinki Finland 11
1979 8 July Härnösand Sweden 12
1981 25–26 July Sistranda Norway 13
1983 16 July Copenhagen Denmark 14
1985 7–8 September Pori Finland 15
1987 11–12 July Gimo Sweden 16
1989 28–29 April Bergen Norway 17
1992 26–27 September Copenhagen Denmark 18
1994 9–10 September Stockholm Sweden 19
1996 14–15 September Espoo Finland 20
1998 9 May Bergen Norway 21
2000 21–22 October Vallensbæk Denmark 22
2004 11 September Stockholm Sweden 23
2005 24 September Odense Denmark 24
2006 16 September Turku Finland 25
2007 8 June Strandebarm Norway 26
2008 13 September Eskilstuna Sweden 27
2009 5 September Ballerup Denmark 28
2010 4 September Tuusula Finland 29
2011 17 September Halden Norway 30
2012 15 September Eskilstuna Sweden 31
2013 Cancelled
2014 13 September Glostrup Denmark 32
2015 29 August Espoo Finland 33
2016 17 September Norway 34
2017 17 September Stockholm Sweden 35[2]

Medalists

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Men's 20 km walk

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1957   Åke Söderlund (SWE) 1:36:09   Folke Zackrisson (SWE) 1:36:10   Erik Söderlund (SWE) 1:36:25
1959   Pentti Kallionpää (FIN) 1:32:42   Åke Söderlund (SWE) 1:32:46   Jan Nilsson (SWE) 1:33:39
1961   Lennart Back (SWE) 1:32:33   John Ljunggren (SWE) 1:34:07   Erik Söderlund (SWE) 1:34:44
1963   John Ljunggren (SWE) 1:34:20   Erik Söderlund (SWE) 1:35:33   Tommy Kristensen-Bjørnø (DEN) 1:36:46
1965   Göte Nygren (SWE) 1:39:11   Ole David Jensen (DEN) 1:39:59   Roine Karlsson (SWE) 1:40:38
1967   Åke Söderlund (SWE) 1:37:38   Göte Nygren (SWE) 1:39:44   Kjell Gunnarsson (SWE) 1:40:23
1969   Stefan Ingvarsson (SWE) 1:41:44   Daniel Björkgren (SWE) 1:47:12   Georg Davidsson (SWE) 1:47:30
1971   Hans Tenggren (SWE) 1:32:24t   Kåre Moen (SWE) 1:34:51t   Jan Rolstad (NOR) 1:37:24t
1973   Hans Tenggren (SWE) 1:33:06t   Ove Hemmingsson (SWE) 1:35:07t   Kjell Lund (NOR) 1:36:04t
1975   Gérard Lelièvre (FRA) 1:30:14   Jan Ornoch (POL) 1:31:17   Godfried Dejonckheere (BEL) 1:31:40
1977   Reima Salonen (FIN) 1:32:04   Bo Gustafsson (SWE) 1:32:22   Ove Hemmingsson (SWE) 1:33:55
1979   Matti Katila (FIN) 1:29:51   Leif Karlsson (SWE) 1:30:41   Alf Brandt (SWE) 1:32:40
1981   Erling Andersen (NOR) 1:29:00   Roland Nilsson (SWE) 1:29:50   Per Rasmussen (SWE) 1:31:50
1983   Bo Gustafsson (SWE) 1:21:38   Jan Staaf (SWE) 1:28:13   Per Rasmussen (SWE) 1:28:32
1985   Reima Salonen (FIN) 1:28:43   Bo Gustafsson (SWE) 1:28:48   Roland Nilsson (SWE) 1:32:24
1987   Jan Staaf (SWE) 1:28:22   Roland Nilsson (SWE) 1:28:52   Veijo Savikko (FIN) 1:29:17
1989   Erling Andersen (NOR) 1:29:25.6t   Jan Olsson (SWE) 1:29:33.3t   Pauli Pirjetä (FIN) 1:30:14.0t
1992   Valentin Kononen (FIN) 1:24:40.6t   Kari Ahonen (FIN) 1:25:42.4t   Magnus Morenius (SWE) 1:26:12.8t
1994   Valentin Kononen (FIN) 1:23:56.4t   Jani Lehtinen (FIN) 1:27:50.6t   Veijo Savikko (FIN) 1:33:39.4t
1996   Trond Nymark (NOR) 1:31:49.38t   Jacob Sørensen (DEN) 1:33:35.28t   Esa Kinnunen (FIN) 1:44:57.53t
1998   Birger Fält (SWE) 1:24:48.2t   Claus Jørgensen (DEN) 1:27:09.4t   Klaus David Jensen (DEN) 1:29:25.6t
2000   Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) 1:31:18   Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:32:17   Birger Fält (SWE) 1:33:33
2004   Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) 1:34:40.2t   Christer Svensson (SWE) 1:37:04.7t   Erling Andersen (NOR) 1:38:33.0t
2005   Trond Nymark (NOR) 1:27:59.7t   Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) 1:29:50.1t   Fredrik Svensson (SWE) 1:32:54.1t
2006[3]   Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:20:56.5   Trond Nymark (NOR) 1:27:30.9   Antti Kempas (FIN) 1:28:48.9
2007[4]   Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:22:03   Trond Nymark (NOR) 1:27:50   Jani Lehtinen (FIN) 1:37:46
2008[5]   Fredrik Svensson (SWE) 1:29:55   Christer Svensson (SWE) 1:35:17   Timo Viljanen (FIN) 1:36:28
2009[6]   Ato Ibáñez (SWE) 1:29:26.25   Fredrik Svensson (SWE) 1:35:48.74   Arne-Johan Martinsen (NOR) 1:36:10.21
2010[7]   Antti Kempas (FIN) 1:29:34.03   Timo Viljanen (FIN) 1:34:27.53   Christer Svensson (SWE) 1:35:39.99
2011[8]   Heikki Kukkonen (FIN) 1:24:07.52   Andreas Nielsen (DEN) 1:32:39.23   Timo Viljanen (FIN) 1:33:28.74
2012[9]   Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:20:39   Ato Ibáñez (SWE) 1:22:36   Andreas Gustafsson (SWE) 1:23:20
2013[10] Cancelled
2014[11]   Ato Ibáñez (SWE) 1:24:53.20   Perseus Karlström (SWE) 1:29:39.52   Matias Korpela (FIN) 1:32:54.86
2015[12]   Timo Viljanen (FIN) 1:38:39.3   Andreas Nielsen (DEN) 1:41:54.7   Christer Svensson (SWE) 1:43:05.0
2016[13]   Anders Hansson (SWE) 1:25:52   Remo Kalström (SWE) 1:34:25   Timo Viljanen (FIN) 1:38:56
2017[2]   Ato Ibáñez (SWE) 1:28:42.77   Anders Hansson (SWE) 1:29:01.68   Elmo Koivunen (FIN) 1:34:07.86

References

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  1. ^ Nordic Race Walking Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  2. ^ a b c Nordic Competitions 2017. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  3. ^ Competitions 2006. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. ^ Competitions 2007. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  5. ^ Competitions 2008. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  6. ^ Competitions 2009. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  7. ^ Competitions 2010. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  8. ^ Competitions 2011. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  9. ^ Competitions 2012. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. ^ Competitions 2013. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  11. ^ Competitions 2014. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  12. ^ Competitions 2015. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  13. ^ Competitions 2016. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
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