1997 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 10 July 1997.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Aigars Fadejevs  Latvia
Silver	Paquillo Fernández  Spain
Bronze	Artur Meliashkevich  Belarus

Results

Final

10 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aigars Fadejevs	Latvia	1:19:58
	Paquillo Fernández	Spain	1:21:59
	Artur Meliashkevich	Belarus	1:22:26
4	Yevgeniy Shmalyuk	Russia	1:22:38
5	Andreas Erm	Germany	1:22:55
6	Anthony Gillet	France	1:23:10
7	Lorenzo Civallero	Italy	1:23:45
8	Pavel Nikolayev	Russia	1:24:25
9	José Alejandro Cambil	Spain	1:24:44
10	Vitaliy Stetsyshyn	Ukraine	1:25:38
11	Gintaras Andriuškevičius	Lithuania	1:26:58
12	Silviu Casandra	Romania	1:27:18
13	Roman Magdziarczyk	Poland	1:27:36
14	Trond Nymark	Norway	1:29:44
15	Pierce O'Callaghan	Ireland	1:40:24
	Ivan Trotskiy	Belarus	DQ
	João Vieira	Portugal	DNF
	Sérgio Vieira	Portugal	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

•  Belarus (2)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Spain (2)
•  Ukraine (1)