Organisers IAAF Date September 24–25 Athletes participating 96 + 23 guest | Edition 8th Nations participating 12 + 3 guest | |
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The 1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, on September 24–25, 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.
Contents
Complete results were published.
Medallists
†: Invitation event.
Women's 5 km†
†: Invitation event.
Participation
The participation of 119 athletes (96 men/23 women) from countries is reported.
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.
References
1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA