The 1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, on 24–25 September 1977. For the first time, a new competition name IAAF Race Walking World Cup was introduced replacing the former Lugano Trophy. As in 1975, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event. Mexico was dominant in the men's events, taking the team title and the top two spots in the 20 km and 50 km events through Daniel Bautista, Domingo Colín, Raúl González and Pedro Aroche. Sweden's Siv Gustavsson won the invitational women's event.IAAF World Race Walking Cup. GBRAthletics. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

Complete results were published.

Medallists Men20 km walk 1:24:02 1:24:31 1:24:5150 km walk 4:04:16 4:04:55 4:06:27 Lugano Cup (Men)Team (Men) 185 pts 180 pts 160 pts Women†5 km walk† 23:19 23:46 24:12 †: Invitation event.

Results

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Daniel Bautista 1:24:02 Domingo Colín 1:24:31 Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller 1:24:51 4 Maurizio Damilano 1:25:33 5 Gérard Lelièvre 1:26:48 6 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov 1:27:03 7 Roland Wieser 1:27:09 8 Anatoliy Solomin 1:27:41 9 Armando Zambaldo 1:27:53 10 Roberto Buccione 1:28:28 11 Sandro Bellucci 1:28:36 12 Nikolay Polozov 1:28:58 13 Hartwig Gauder 1:29:51 14 Vladimir Golubnichiy 1:30:33 15 Juraj Bencík 1:30:38 16 Jaroslaw Kazmierski 1:30:39 17 Bo Gustafsson 1:30:43 18 Jan Dzurnák 1:31:05 19 Jan Ornoch 1:31:09 20 Jean-Claude Decosse 1:31:25 21 Zbigniew Gosławski 1:31:30 22 Dominique Guebey 1:31:31 23 Mieczysław Górski 1:31:33 24 Werner Heyer 1:32:02 25 Marcos Castro 1:32:09 26 János Szálas 1:32:18 27 Alfons Schwarz 1:32:28 28 Štefan Petrík 1:32:49 29 Lennart Lundgren 1:32:58 30 Mike Holmes 1:33:06 31 Bengt Simonsen 1:33:09 32 Mick Greasley 1:33:13 33 Roger Mills 1:33:22 34 Jürgen Meyer 1:33:26 35 Göran Aneheim 1:33:38 36 Jim Heiring 1:33:40 37 Imre Stankovics 1:33:46 38 Hans Michalski 1:34:11 39 Amos Seddon 1:34:31 40 Szaba Grandpierre 1:35:04 41 Neal Pike 1:35:20 42 Jean-Pierre Garnung 1:35:52 43 Wolfgang Werner 1:36:11 44 Tivadar Szilagyi 1:36:38 45 Sam Dibernando 1:39:48 — Ángel Flores DQ — Todd Scully DQ — Evûen Zedník DNF

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Raúl González 4:04:16 Pedro Aroche 4:04:55 Paolo Grecucci 4:06:27 4 Veniamin Soldatenko 4:08:20 5 Ralf Knütter 4:10:13 6 Steffen Müller 4:14:34 7 László Sátor 4:14:50 8 Heinrich Schubert 4:15:15 9 Horst Matern 4:15:50 10 Hans Binder 4:17:23 11 Bohdan Bułakowski 4:18:05 12 Martín Bermúdez 4:19:07 13 Larry Young 4:19:56 14 August Hirt 4:20:06 15 Franco Vecchio 4:21:16 16 Leif Karlsson 4:21:55 17 Brian Adams 4:23:54 18 Feliks Sliwinski 4:24:05 19 Karl Degener 4:24:11 20 Alain Moulinet 4:24:34 21 Rosario Valore 4:24:45 22 Owe Hemmingsson 4:25:07 23 Mario Kerber 4:25:27 24 Stig-Olof Elovsson 4:25:38 25 Ladíslav Vitez 4:25:45 26 Ferenc Danovsky 4:26:06 27 Bob Dobson 4:26:09 28 John Warhurst 4:26:47 29 Luc Gauthier 4:27:03 30 František Biro 4:27:48 31 Yuriy Andryushchenko 4:28:37 32 Bogusław Kmiecik 4:29:15 33 Peter Hodkinson 4:29:27 34 Jean-Pierre Garcia 4:30:03 35 Franciszek Ustarbowski 4:36:39 36 Karoly Orban 4:37:47 37 Jean-Louis Hauth 4:38:00 38 Jaroslav Pták 4:42:16 39 Vytautas Papas 4:46:46 — Enrique Vera Ibanez DQ — Algis Sakalis DQ — Gerhard Weidner DNF — Zoltán Rutkai DNF — Giancarlo Lisi DNF — Stefan Sjunnesson DNF — Josef Macek DNF — Tom Dooley DNF — Dan OʼConnor DNF

Team (men) The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Place Country Points 185 pts 180 pts 160 pts 4 128 pts 5 112 pts 6 99 pts 7 99 pts 8 94 pts 9 82 pts 10 69 pts 11 69 pts 12 56 pts

Women's 5 km† Place Athlete Nation Time Siv Gustavsson 23:19 Carol Tyson 23:46 Margareta Simu 24:12 4 Judy Farr 24:23 5 Britt Holmquist 24:27 6 Elisabet Olsson 24:51 7 Beverley Francis 25:41 8 Ginney Lovell 25:58 9 Christine Coleman 26:01 10 Elaine Cox 26:14 11 Irene Bateman 26:24 12 Siobhan MacAuley 27:39 13 Sheila Miller 27:51 14 Pamela Reynolds 27:58 15 Susan Till 28:09 16 Carolyn Gee 28:51 17 Shirley Rook 29:03 18 Mary Brown 29:27 19 Karen Bingham 29:39 20 Julie Robery 30:29 21 Linda Nicholls 31:49 22 M. Servais 35:52 — Marion Fawkes DNF †: Invitation event.

Participation The participation of 119 athletes (96 men/23 women) from countries is reported.

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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 Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and México proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 San Remo, Italy, 27/28 August Rank Nation Points 1 58 pts 2 50 pts 3 32 pts 4 18 pts— DNS DNS

Zone 2 Vänersborg, Sweden, 27 August Rank Nation Points 1 53 pts 2 51 pts 3 23 pts 4 21 pts

Zone 3 Lessines, Belgium, 27/28 August Rank Nation Points 1 84 pts 2 64 pts 3 49 pts 4 32 pts 5 7 pts

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