1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
# 1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 20 km walk event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with the race held on 18 August 1998.

## Medalists

| Gold | Ilya Markov Russia (RUS) |
| - | - |
| Silver | Aigars Fadejevs Latvia (LAT) |
| Bronze | Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP) |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

| DNS | did not start |
| - | - |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships :

| World Record | Bu Lingtang (CHN) | 1:18:04 | April 7, 1994 | Beijing, PR China |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Event Record | Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) | 1:18:45 | August 8, 1994 | Helsinki, Finland |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Ilya Markov (RUS) | 1:21:10 | |
| | Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) | 1:21:25 | |
| | Paquillo Fernández (ESP) | 1:21:39 | |
| 4 | Andreas Erm (GER) | 1:21.53 | |
| 5 | Sándor Urbanik (HUN) | 1:22.12 | |
| 6 | Ivan Trotski (BLR) | 1:22.46 | |
| 7 | Denis Langlois (FRA) | 1:23.02 | |
| 8 | Yevgeniy Shmalyuk (RUS) | 1:23.32 | |
| 9 | Valentí Massana (ESP) | 1:23.36 | |
| 10 | Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) | 1:25.06 | SB |
| 11 | Michele Didoni (ITA) | 1:25.54 | |
| 12 | Alessandro Gandellini (ITA) | 1:25.57 | |
| 13 | José Urbano (POR) | 1:26.04 | |
| 14 | Claus Jørgensen (DEN) | 1:26.28 | |
| 15 | Igor Kollár (SVK) | 1:26.43 | |
| 16 | Anthony Gillet (FRA) | 1:27.07 | |
| 17 | Róbert Valíček (SVK) | 1:27.25 | |
| 18 | Gyula Dudás (HUN) | 1:27.51 | |
| 19 | Fedosei Ciumacenco (MDA) | 1:27.56 | |
| 20 | João Vieira (POR) | 1:29.38 | |
| 21 | Jiří Malysa (CZE) | 1:30.16 | |
| 22 | Spiridon Kastanis (GRE) | 1:30.19 | |
| 23 | André Höhne (GER) | 1:32.28 | |
| 24 | Erik Kalina (SVK) | 1:35.55 | |
| 25 | Michael Casey (IRL) | 1:38.58 | |
| DISQUALIFIED (DSQ) ||||
| — | Andrey Makarov (BLR) | DSQ | |
| — | Daniel Plaza (ESP) | DSQ | |
| — | Birger Fält (SWE) | DSQ | |
| — | Artur Meleshkevich (BLR) | DSQ | |
| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) ||||
| — | Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) | DNF | |
| — | Jan Staaf (SWE) | DNF | |
| — | Bengt Bengtsson (SWE) | DNF | |
| — | Pierce O'Callaghan (IRL) | DNF | |
