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
  • The 1959 course was short.
Year Dates Place Country Edition
195725 AugustGothenburgSweden1
195929–30 AugustPoriFinland2
196126–27 AugustCopenhagenDenmark3
196324–25 AugustFredrikstadNorway4
196521–22 AugustÖrebroSweden5
19679–10 SeptemberCopenhagenDenmark6
19692–3 AugustTaivassaloFinland7
197124–25 JulyGothenburgSweden8
197310–11 AugustFredrikstadNorway9
197519–20 JulyOdenseDenmark10
19776–7 AugustHelsinkiFinland11
19798 JulyHärnösandSweden12
198125–26 JulySistrandaNorway13
198316 JulyCopenhagenDenmark14
19857–8 SeptemberPoriFinland15
198711–12 JulyGimoSweden16
198928–29 AprilBergenNorway17
199226–27 SeptemberCopenhagenDenmark18
19949–10 SeptemberStockholmSweden19
199614–15 SeptemberEspooFinland20
19989 MayBergenNorway21
200021–22 OctoberVallensbækDenmark22
200411 SeptemberStockholmSweden23
200524 SeptemberOdenseDenmark24
200616 SeptemberTurkuFinland25
20078 JuneStrandebarmNorway26
200813 SeptemberEskilstunaSweden27
20095 SeptemberBallerupDenmark28
20104 SeptemberTuusulaFinland29
201117 SeptemberHaldenNorway30
201215 SeptemberEskilstunaSweden31
2013Cancelled
201413 SeptemberGlostrupDenmark32
201529 AugustEspooFinland33
201617 SeptemberNorway34
201717 SeptemberStockholmSweden35[2]

Medalists

Men's 20 km walk
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
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References
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  2. 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.
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  9. Competitions 2012. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. Competitions 2013. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
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  13. Competitions 2016. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
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