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.

Medallists Men20 km walk 1:26:12 1:26:20 1:26:5450 km walk 4:03:42 4:09:58 4:11:31 Lugano Cup (Men)Team (Men) 117 pts 105 pts 102 pts Women†5 km walk† 23:40 24:33 24:45 Team (Women)†Team (Women)† 70 pts 46 pts 42 pts †: Invitation event.

Results

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller 1:26:12 Bernd Kannenberg 1:26:20 Peter Frenkel 1:26:54 4 Otto Barch 1:27:35 5 Vittorio Visini 1:27:38 6 Brian Adams 1:27:46 7 Aleksey Troitskiy 1:27:59 8 Olly Flynn 1:28:08 9 Yevgeniy Ivchenko 1:28:39 10 Mikhail Alekseyev 1:28:58 11 Hans-Georg Reimann 1:29:03 12 Armando Zambaldo 1:29:29 13 Imre Stankovics 1:29:55 14 Gérard Lelièvre 1:30:18 15 Domenico Carpentieri 1:30:25 16 Hartwig Gauder 1:30:37 17 Amos Seddon 1:30:42 18 János Tábori 1:30:53 19 Bengt Simonsen 1:31:13 20 Göran Aneheim 1:31:57 21 Sandro Bellucci 1:33:03 22 Alain Moulinet 1:33:17 23 Daniel Björkgren 1:33:27 24 Heinz Mayr 1:33:40 25 Owe Hemmingsson 1:33:49 26 Bob Kitchen 1:34:15 27 László Sátor 1:34:48 28 Roger Mills 1:35:23 29 Dominique Guebey 1:35:42 30 Bernhard Schmidt 1:37:26 31 Wayne Glusker 1:38:07 32 Helmut Stolte 1:39:15 33 Michel Leveque 1:42:41 — Sándor Forian DQ — Jerry Brown DQ — John Knifton DQ

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Yevgeniy Lyungin 4:03:42 Gerhard Weidner 4:09:58 Vladimir Svechnikov 4:11:31 4 John Warhurst 4:14:35 5 Franco Vecchio 4:15:33 6 Ferenc Danovsky 4:15:59 7 Heinrich Schubert 4:16:11 8 Werner Galina 4:16:30 9 Hans Binder 4:18:08 10 Jean-Pierre Garcia 4:19:35 11 Max Sjöholm 4:21:10 12 János Dalmati 4:21:48 13 Paolo Grecucci 4:23:55 14 Olaf Pilarski 4:24:59 15 Roy Thorpe 4:26:48 16 Hans Michalski 4:27:31 17 Stig-Olof Elovsson 4:29:03 18 Lennart Lundgren 4:30:05 19 Alec Banyard 4:30:25 20 Charley Fogg 4:31:15 21 August Hirt 4:31:19 22 Mirko Scussel 4:36:11 23 Luc Gauthier 4:39:48 24 Claude Sauriat 4:47:05 25 Karoly Orban 4:55:37 26 Tom Knatt 5:01:10 27 Paul Eddig 5:15:08 — Didier David DQ — Ralf Knütter DQ — Matthias Kroel DQ — Kåre Moen DQ — Veniamin Soldatenko DQ — Lajos Lanyl DNF — Rosario Valore DNF — Ray Somers DNF

Team (men) The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Place Country Points 117 pts 105 pts 102 pts 4 102 pts 5 100 pts 6 76 pts 7 69 pts 8 59 pts 9 24 pts

Women's 5 km† Place Athlete Nation Time Margareta Simu 23:40 Siv Gustavsson 24:33 Britt Holmquist 24:45 4 Thorill Gylder 25:05 5 Sue Brodock 25:07 6 Marion Fawkes 25:12 7 Elisabet Olsson 28:14 8 Monika Karlsson 28:14 9 Karin Møller 26:00 10 Ginney Lovell 26:05 11 Monika Glöckler 26:16 12 Nadine Mogis 26:17 13 Jeanine Piroux 26:22 14 Dominique Terraz 26:22 15 Mia Kjølberg 26:34 16 Margot Vetterli 26:45 17 Marica Zethof 26:53 18 Sylvia Saunders/Black 27:05 19 Heike Penner 27:12 20 Laila Nielsen 27:22 21 Gerd Gylder 27:32 22 Becky Villalvaso 27:35 23 Tina Thomsen 27:38 24 Regine Broders 27:44 25 Eileen Smith 27:50 26 Ulla Kristiansen 27:59 27 Sandy Briscoe 28:14 28 Fröydis Hilsen 28:17 29 Edith Häppt 28:35 30 Anne Fröberg 29:12 31 Olivia Lorenz 29:18 32 Chantal Vallée 30:09 33 Adri van Dirven 32:50 — Jacqueline Delassaux DQ — Judy Farr DQ — Cynthia Johnson DQ — Lisa Metheny DQ — Jacoba Kemna DNF †: Invitation event.

Team (women)† Place Country Points 70 pts 46 pts 42 pts 4 40 pts 5 31 pts 6 29 pts 7 26 pts 8 14 pts †: Invitation event.

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

(-/4) (8/-) (-/1) (8/5) (8/-) (8/-) (-/3) (-/4) (7/-) (8/5) (-/2) (8/4) (8/6) (8/4)

Qualifying rounds 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.

Zone 1 Odense, Denmark, September 20/21 Rank Nation Points 1 90 pts 2 80 pts 3 74 pts 4 53 pts 5 23 pts 6 18 pts

Zone 2 Štětí, Czechoslovakia, September 20 Rank Nation Points 1 65 pts 2 53 pts 3 49 pts 4 43 pts 5 32 pts

See also 1975 Race Walking Year Ranking

References