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 Men20 km walk 1:29:31 1:29:36 1:30:4550 km walk 3:56:51 3:57:11 3:57:26 Men (Team)Team 139 pts 134 pts 104 pts

Results

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

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Bernd Kannenberg 3:56:51 Otto Barch 3:57:11 Christoph Höhne 3:57:26 4 Veniamin Soldatenko 4:01:34 5 Gerhard Weidner 4:01:59 6 Peter Selzer 4:02:11 7 Sergey Bondarenko 4:07:52 8 Winfried Skotnicki 4:08:30 9 Vittorio Visini 4:09:25 10 Vladimir Svechnikov 4:11:22 11 Matthias Kroel 4:12:25 12 Shaun Lightman 4:15:14 13 Heinrich Schubert 4:15:52 14 John Knifton 4:17:49 15 Rosario Valore 4:18:17 16 Domenico Carpentieri 4:19:59 17 Leo Frey 4:20:30 18 Örjan Andersson 4:21:06 19 Ray Middleton 4:22:25 20 Floyd Godwin 4:23:49 21 Henryk Wypich 4:25:07 22 Franco Vecchio 4:25:44 23 Bob Dobson 4:27:32 24 William Weigle 4:28:41 25 Bob Kitchen 4:29:39 26 Stanisław Korneluk 4:32:28 27 Alex Oakley 4:34:06 28 Max Sjöholm 4:34:47 29 Bo Fransson 4:36:12 30 Mike Holmes 4:37:54 31 Stanisław Chwiej 4:39:06 32 Pat Farrelly 4:40:55 33 Karl-Heinz Merschenz 4:48:03 — Marek Kaspryzk DNF — Owe Hemmingsson DNF

Team The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Place Country Points 139 pts 134 pts 104 pts 4 95 pts 5 95 pts 6 81 pts 7 52 pts 8 40 pts 9 18 pts

Participation The participation of 68 athletes from 9 countries is reported.

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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.

Zone 1 Borås, Sweden, September 8/9 Rank Nation Points 1 97 pts 2 84 pts 3 70 pts 4 34 pts 5 31 pts 6 28 pts

Zone 2 Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy, September 9 Rank Nation Points 1 104 pts 2 95 pts 3 79 pts 4 57 pts 5 56 pts 6 48 pts 7 29 pts

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