*** Welcome to piglix ***

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 France
Nations participating 9 + 5 guest
Athletes participating 71 + 38 guest
Races 2 + 1 invited

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.

: Invitation event.

: Invitation event.

: Invitation event.

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

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.

Odense, Denmark, September 20/21

Štětí, Czechoslovakia, September 20


...
Wikipedia

...