1961 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

International athletics championship event

The 1961 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland, on October 15–16, 1961. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
20 km walk	Ken Matthews (GBR)	1:30:55	Lennart Back (SWE)	1:32:12	George Williams (GBR)	1:34:02
50 km walk	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:25:38	Don Thompson (GBR)	4:30:35	Åke Söderlund (SWE)	4:36:48
Men (Team)
Team	United Kingdom	53 pts	Sweden	53 pts	Italy	28 pts

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Ken Matthews	Great Britain (GBR)	1:30:55
	Lennart Back	Sweden (SWE)	1:32:12
	George Williams	Great Britain (GBR)	1:34:02
4	John Ljunggren	Sweden (SWE)	1:34:22
5	Erik Söderlund	Sweden (SWE)	1:35:17
6	Tibor Balajcza	Hungary (HUN)	1:36:17
7	Bob Clark	Great Britain (GBR)	1:36:52
8	Giuseppe Dordoni	Italy (ITA)	1:37:17
9	Antal Kiss	Hungary (HUN)	1:37:39
10	István Göri	Hungary (HUN)	1:39:06
11	Gianni Corsaro	Italy (ITA)	1:42:46
—	Stefano Serchinich	Italy (ITA)	DNF

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Abdon Pamich	Italy (ITA)	4:25:38
	Don Thompson	Great Britain (GBR)	4:30:35
	Åke Söderlund	Sweden (SWE)	4:36:48
4	Ray Middleton	Great Britain (GBR)	4:39:24
5	Ingvar Green	Sweden (SWE)	4:42:27
6	Evert Leonardsson	Sweden (SWE)	4:43:25
7	István Havasi	Hungary (HUN)	4:46:59
8	Luigi De Rosso	Italy (ITA)	4:49:22
9	Charley Fogg	Great Britain (GBR)	4:49:22
10	Antonio De Gaetano	Italy (ITA)	5:05:02
11	Géza Szabó	Hungary (HUN)	5:12:57
12	Béla Dinesz	Hungary (HUN)	5:13:03

From this edition up to 1997, the team ranking was named Lugano Trophy and combined the results of the 20km and 50km races..^[2]

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds with the winners proceeding to the final.

Countries qualifying for the final are highlighted in green

^†: Combined East and West German Team.

Spoleto, Italy, September 3

Cancelled

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Hungary
2	Turkey	DNS

^ IAAF WORLD RACE WALKING CUP - SARANSK 2012 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved July 29, 2013
^ "IAAF WORLD RACE WALKING CUP - TAICANG 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 5 August 2017.