# 1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

The 1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Lugano, Switzerland, on October 12–13, 1973. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.
Complete results were published.

## Medallists

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Men |||||||
| 20 km walk | Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR) | 1:29:31 | Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR) | 1:29:36 | Ron Laird (USA) | 1:30:45 |
| 50 km walk | Bernd Kannenberg (FRG) | 3:56:51 | Otto Barch (URS) | 3:57:11 | Christoph Höhne (GDR) | 3:57:26 |
| Men (Team) |||||||
| Team | East Germany | 139 pts | Soviet Union | 134 pts | Italy | 104 pts |

## Results
### Men's 20 km

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Hans-Georg Reimann | East Germany (GDR) | 1:29:31 |
| | Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller | East Germany (GDR) | 1:29:36 |
| | Ron Laird | United States (USA) | 1:30:45 |
| 4 | Nikolay Smaga | Soviet Union (URS) | 1:30:57 |
| 5 | Yevgeniy Ivchenko | Soviet Union (URS) | 1:31:33 |
| 6 | Armando Zambaldo | Italy (ITA) | 1:31:42 |
| 7 | Todd Scully | United States (USA) | 1:32:24 |
| 8 | Roger Mills | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:32:45 |
| 9 | Pasquale Busca | Italy (ITA) | 1:33:04 |
| 10 | Peter Frenkel | East Germany (GDR) | 1:33:23 |
| 11 | Siegfried Richter | West Germany (FRG) | 1:33:33 |
| 12 | Vladimir Resayev | Soviet Union (URS) | 1:33:47 |
| 13 | Abdon Pamich | Italy (ITA) | 1:33:56 |
| 14 | Jerry Brown | United States (USA) | 1:34:05 |
| 15 | Siegfried Zschiegner | East Germany (GDR) | 1:34:12 |
| 16 | Roberto Buccione | Italy (ITA) | 1:34:38 |
| 17 | Feliks Sliwinski | Poland (POL) | 1:34:45 |
| 18 | John Warhurst | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:34:58 |
| 19 | Jan Ornoch | Poland (POL) | 1:35:13 |
| 20 | Amos Seddon | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:35:17 |
| 21 | Stefan Ingvarsson | Sweden (SWE) | 1:35:52 |
| 22 | Mieczysław Górski | Poland (POL) | 1:36:04 |
| 23 | Hans Tenggren | Sweden (SWE) | 1:36:27 |
| 24 | Roy Thorpe | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:37:40 |
| 25 | Jan Raszka | Poland (POL) | 1:38:25 |
| 26 | Manfred Kolvenbach | West Germany (FRG) | 1:38:44 |
| 27 | Nicholas John Stabile | United States (USA) | 1:39:11 |
| 28 | Marcel Jobin | Canada (CAN) | 1:39:25 |
| 29 | Helmut Stolte | West Germany (FRG) | 1:39:36 |
| 30 | Pat Farrelly | Canada (CAN) | 1:40:52 |
| 31 | Kåre Moen | Sweden (SWE) | 1:41:44 |
| 32 | Karl-Heinz Merschenz | Canada (CAN) | 1:43:38 |
| — | Heinz Mayr | West Germany (FRG) | DQ |
| — | Bo Gustafsson | Sweden (SWE) | DNF |
| — | Anatoliy Solomin | Soviet Union (URS) | DNF |

### Men's 50 km

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Bernd Kannenberg | West Germany (FRG) | 3:56:51 |
| | Otto Barch | Soviet Union (URS) | 3:57:11 |
| | Christoph Höhne | East Germany (GDR) | 3:57:26 |
| 4 | Veniamin Soldatenko | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:01:34 |
| 5 | Gerhard Weidner | West Germany (FRG) | 4:01:59 |
| 6 | Peter Selzer | East Germany (GDR) | 4:02:11 |
| 7 | Sergey Bondarenko | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:07:52 |
| 8 | Winfried Skotnicki | East Germany (GDR) | 4:08:30 |
| 9 | Vittorio Visini | Italy (ITA) | 4:09:25 |
| 10 | Vladimir Svechnikov | Soviet Union (URS) | 4:11:22 |
| 11 | Matthias Kroel | East Germany (GDR) | 4:12:25 |
| 12 | Shaun Lightman | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:15:14 |
| 13 | Heinrich Schubert | West Germany (FRG) | 4:15:52 |
| 14 | John Knifton | United States (USA) | 4:17:49 |
| 15 | Rosario Valore | Italy (ITA) | 4:18:17 |
| 16 | Domenico Carpentieri | Italy (ITA) | 4:19:59 |
| 17 | Leo Frey | West Germany (FRG) | 4:20:30 |
| 18 | Örjan Andersson | Sweden (SWE) | 4:21:06 |
| 19 | Ray Middleton | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:22:25 |
| 20 | Floyd Godwin | United States (USA) | 4:23:49 |
| 21 | Henryk Wypich | Poland (POL) | 4:25:07 |
| 22 | Franco Vecchio | Italy (ITA) | 4:25:44 |
| 23 | Bob Dobson | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:27:32 |
| 24 | William Weigle | United States (USA) | 4:28:41 |
| 25 | Bob Kitchen | United States (USA) | 4:29:39 |
| 26 | Stanisław Korneluk | Poland (POL) | 4:32:28 |
| 27 | Alex Oakley | Canada (CAN) | 4:34:06 |
| 28 | Max Sjöholm | Sweden (SWE) | 4:34:47 |
| 29 | Bo Fransson | Sweden (SWE) | 4:36:12 |
| 30 | Mike Holmes | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:37:54 |
| 31 | Stanisław Chwiej | Poland (POL) | 4:39:06 |
| 32 | Pat Farrelly | Canada (CAN) | 4:40:55 |
| 33 | Karl-Heinz Merschenz | Canada (CAN) | 4:48:03 |
| — | Marek Kaspryzk | Poland (POL) | DNF |
| — | Owe Hemmingsson | Sweden (SWE) | DNF |

### Team

The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results.
| Place | Country | Points |
| | East Germany | 139 pts |
| | Soviet Union | 134 pts |
| | Italy | 104 pts |
| 4 | West Germany | 95 pts |
| 5 | United States | 95 pts |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 81 pts |
| 7 | Poland | 52 pts |
| 8 | Sweden | 40 pts |
| 9 | Canada | 18 pts |

## Participation

The participation of 68 athletes from 9 countries is reported.
* Canada (4)
* East Germany (8)
* Italy (8)
* Poland (8)
* Soviet Union (8)
* Sweden (8)
* United Kingdom (8)
* United States (8)
* West Germany (8)

## Qualifying rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, and Canada proceeded directly to the final.