| Event: | Men's 50 kilometres walk |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, on 2 September 1978.
| Gold | Jorge Llopart | |
| Silver | Venyamin Soldatenko | |
| Bronze | Jan Ornoch |
2 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | align=left | | 3:53:29.9 | CR | |||
| align=left | align=left | 3:55:12.1 | |||||
| align=left | align=left | | 3:55:15.9 | ||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 3:57:23.7 | ||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 3:57:26.7 | ||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left |  | 3:57:42.8 | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | | 3:58:25.9 | |||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 4:00:03.8 | ||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 4:00:11.9 | ||||
| 10 | align=left | align=left | 4:01:03.7 | ||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:03:34.6 | |||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | 4:04:01.9 | ||||
| 13 | align=left | align=left | 4:04:12.4 | ||||
| 14 | align=left | align=left | 4:04:40.0 | ||||
| 15 | align=left | align=left | | 4:05:46.8 | |||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | 4:07:55.8 | ||||
| 17 | align=left | align=left | | 4:09:54.7 | |||
| 18 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:09:57.0 | |||
| 19 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:10:22.4 | |||
| 20 | align=left | align=left | | 4:12:39.1 | |||
| 21 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:16:52.5 | |||
| 22 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:23:26.9 | |||
| 23 | align=left | align=left |  | 4:27:09.3 | |||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left |  | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left |  | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | DNF | |||||
| align=left | align=left | | DNF | ||||
| align=left | align=left | DQ | |||||
| align=left | align=left | DQ |
According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.
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