| Event: | Men's 20 kilometres walk |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 30 August 1978.
| Gold | Roland Wieser | |
| Silver | Pyotr Pochenchuk | |
| Bronze | Anatoliy Solomin |
30 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | align=left | 1:23:11.5 | CR | ||||
| align=left | align=left | 1:23:43.0 | |||||
| align=left | align=left | 1:24:11.5 | |||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 1:24:27.9 | ||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:24:38.1 | |||
| 6 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:24:57.5 | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 1:25:15.7 | ||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | | 1:25:40.9 | |||
| 9 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:25:56.8 | |||
| 10 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:26:13.5 | |||
| 11 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:26:42.3 | |||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | | 1:26:44.2 | |||
| 13 | align=left | align=left | 1:27:47.4 | ||||
| 14 | align=left | align=left | 1:27:49.3 | ||||
| 15 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:29:19.7 | |||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | | 1:29:22.0 | |||
| 17 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:29:33.3 | |||
| 18 | align=left | align=left | 1:30:08.4 | ||||
| 19 | align=left | align=left | | 1:30:44.2 | |||
| 20 | align=left | align=left | 1:31:17.6 | ||||
| 21 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:31:52.5 | |||
| 22 | align=left | align=left | 1:32:08.9 | ||||
| 23 | align=left | align=left |  | 1:32:13.0 | |||
| 24 | align=left | align=left | | 1:32:41.7 | |||
| 25 | align=left | align=left | | 1:33:08.2 | |||
| 26 | align=left | align=left | | 1:34:17.8 | |||
| 27 | align=left | align=left | | 1:36:01.9 | |||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | DQ |
According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.
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