Today begins the first day of the seventeenth edition of the Pan American Race Walking Cup.
Marcia dal Mondo will follow as usual with interest this event.
At the same time our readers can scroll through the results and news of the previous editions that Marcia dal Mondo has published with the help of Ruben Aguilera clicking the link given below
It is also available the Team Manual and the link to the LOC web site.
20 km men
Victory of the Guatemalan Erick Barrondo with the time of 1:21:25 that prevailed by a narrow margin on Brazilian Caio de Sena Bonfim who won the silver in 1:21:26.
For third place the Colombian Ivan Garrido has prevailed in 1:21:39 in the final detaching the other two athletes who finished the race under 1:22:00, Ivan Dunfee (CAN - 1:21:53) and Eder Sanchez (MEX - 1:21:58)
As expected the race was decided in the final part.
Of the forty athletes ate the start, 36 have completed the race, 3 DNF and only 1 DQ.
20 km for men - Team Standings
The victory went to Canada with 21 points (fourth place of Evan Dunfee, seventh place of Inaki Gomez and the tenth of Benjamin Thorne), in front of Colombia with 23 points.
The bronze per team goes to Guatemala with 32 points.
10 km junior women
Wins the race the Bolivian Stefany Coronado with a time of 47:05.
Second place went to the Mexican Valeria Ortuno (47:19) and the Colombian Maria Montoya (47:38).
Twenty-five athletes at the start and all they complete the race.
10 km junior women Team Standings
The victory went to Colombia with 7 points (third place of Maria Montoya and the fourth of Lina Bolivar), in front of Bolivia with 10 points, but with the best finish athlete.
The bronze per team goes to Mexico again with 10 points.
20 km Women
He wins the race the Mexican Maria Gonzalez with a time of 1:29:21 in front of the Peruvian Kimberly Garcia (1:31:13) and the Guatemalan Mirna Ortiz (1:31:31).
20 km women Team Standings
The victory went to Messico with 14 ponits (first place of Maria Gonzalez, fourth of Alejandra Ortega and nineth of Lizbeth Silva), in front of Guatemala with points 21.
The bronze per team goes to Stati Uniti with 35 points.
10 km junior men
He wins the race the Colombiamo Brayan Fuentes with a time of 41:41.
Second place went to the Peruvian Paulo Yurivica (41:45) before the Colombian Cesar Herrera (42:36).
10 km junior uomini per Team
The victory went to Messico with 4 points (first place of Brayan Fuentes and third of Cesar Herrera) in front of Perù with points 6.
The bronze per team goes to Ecuador with 20 points.
On the second day there was the race of 50 km open also for the first time to women.
50 km men
The Mexican Horacio Nava has no difficulty in winning the race in 3:45:41, in front of teammate David Berdeja in 3:50:19.
The bronze goes to the Colombian James Rendon (3:50:47).
Mexico won the team standings thanks to fourth José Qieda.
(from IAAF web site)
Barrondo and Gonzalez take Pan American Race Walkking Cup 20 km wins
Guatemala’s London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Erick Barrondo and Mexico’s Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez both rose to second place in the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge after taking the 20km wins at the 17th Pan American Race Walking Cup in Arica, Chile, on Saturday and Sunday (9-10).
Barrondo held off a strong challenge from Brazil’s Caio Bonfim to beat him by one second, the Guatemalan crossing the line in 1:21:25 to achieve his first win of the season, and in the Challenge following his runner-up finish in the Mexican city of Chihuahua in March.
Third two years ago, the Brazilian improved to silver this time while Colombia’s 21-year-old Ivan Garrido produced the best performance of his life, slicing off over two minutes from his previous best to win the bronze medal in 1:21:39, coming home ahead of Canadian record holder Evan Dunfee, fourth in 1:21:54, and Mexico’s 2009 IAAF World Championships medallist Eder Sanchez, who was fifth in 1:21:58.
In the women’s 20km on Saturday, Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez continued to show excellent form this season.
After winning in the second leg of the IAAF Challenge on home soil in March, the Mexican dominated the race in Arica with 1:29:21, the second sub-1:30 performance of her career and close to two minutes faster than her closest rival, Peru’s defending champion Kimberly Garcia, who was second in 1:31:13.
Guatemala’s North, Central American and Caribbean record holder and 2011 Pan American Games silver medallist Mirna Ortiz had to settle for bronze in 1:31:31, seven seconds ahead of Mexico’s 20-year Alejandra Ortega.
Ortega, the 2013 Pan American Cup junior 10km winner, walked over three minutes faster than two months ago at home in Chihuahua, when she made her debut over the distance.
Mexico’s Horacio Nava also showed impressive form in his first race of the season, winning the 50km on Sunday with a Cup record of 3:45:41, the fourth fastest time of his career.
The 2007 champion also won the silver medal two years ago in Guatemala.
“I achieved my goal to qualify to the next major events. It is a busy year so my goal here was to finish with the best time possible. It is not my personal best, but it is more than enough to give me the Olympic qualification,” said Nava.
His countryman and 2000 world junior champion Cristian David Berdeja was with Nava in the lead until the last two 2km laps and finished second in a personal best of 3:50:19.
Colombian record holder James Rendon averted a Mexican clean sweep of the podium as he clinched the bronze medal with a season’s best of 3:50:47.
Mexico’s 2013 defending champion Omar Zepeda was down in seventh this time with 3:58:44, but ahead of Colombia’s 2011 IAAF World Championships 20km bronze medallist Luis Fernando Lopez, although the latter improved his 50km best by more than four minutes with 4:00:55.
For the first time in the history of the Pan American Race Walking Cup, two women contested the 50km.
USA’s Erin Taylor-Talcott completed the distance in 4:50:26, six minutes ahead of the other participant, her fellow American Susan Randall, who clocked 4:56:42.
Bolivia’s Stefany Coronado took the top honours in the junior women’s 10km with a Cup record of 47:05, ahead of Mexico’s Valeria Ortuno and Colombia’s Maria Montoya, who were second and third in 47:19 and 47:38 respectively.
In the junior men’s 10km, Colombia’s Brayan Fuentes won in 41:41 to upset Peru’s 2014 world junior bronze medallist Paolo Yurivilca, who was four seconds in arrears in 41:45. Another Colombian, Cesar Herrera, finished third in 42:36.
The event in Chile’s northernmost city had more than 200 athletes representing 16 countries.
The 11-leg IAAF Race Walking Challenge will now travel to Spain for the next two stops: the 11th European Cup Race Walking next Sunday (17) in Murcia and the 29th La Coruna Grand Prix on 6 June before it wraps up at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing this August.
Javier Clavelo Robinson for the IAAF
A phase of the race with Ivan Dunfee to lead the pack
together with Eder Sanchez, Caio Bonfim, Erick Barrondo and Ivan Garrido
The podium of 20 km men
The podium of 20 km women