We continue the annual publication of the lists provided with the support of the archive of "All-Athletics.com", with the following:

world list - 10.000m track walk U18 men

limited to the first 20 athletes of the year, but of which we have considered all the performances obtained.

In addition, to facilitate the reading of our followers, we have immediately compared with the

world list - 10km road walk U18 men

There are no Italian athletes in the top 20 of the list, as the first Italian, Giacomo Brandi with his time of 43.26.24 obtained in Macerata (ITA) on May 9, 2015 is in 21th position.

Moreover Giacomo Brandi, in the road race with a time of 44:55 obtained in Cassino (ITA) on March 29, 2015, is just in 102nd place.

Leads the track list the Chinese Jun Zhang (silver in World Youth Championships in Cali) with the performance of 41:07.02 obtained on the occasion of the victory in First Youth Games in Fuzhou (CHN), past October 24, 2015, followed by teammates Haofeng Huan with the performance of 41:44.72obtained in the same race and the Russian Zakhar Sliva, with the performance of 41:52.62 obtained at the Russian championships in Cheboksary on June 12, 2015 (while in Cali, after the penalty suffered in the Pit Lane he finished 10th in 45:22.02.

The road list is essentially a mixture of the races of Changbaishan on September 5, 2015 (Autumn Chinese National Championships), Kobe on February 15, 2015 (Japanese National Championships) and Beijing on March 20, 2015 (Grand Prix and selection for the World Championships in Beijing on the same race course).

In all of these races the presence of an international jury, but especially of a certified course (the same for years), leave no doubt on the level of performances obtained by the young athletes.

Leads the road list the Chinese Yingchao Gao (which is 9th in the ranking on track) with a time of 40:48 obtained with the victory at the National Autumn Chinese Championships in Changbaishan, and is followed by two compatriots Ning Lu (40:58 - no result in track because DNS in Fuzhou) and Ke Zheng (41:03 - 16th in the ranking on track) with the times obtained in the same race.

Only five countries appear in the top 20 list of U18, monopolized by China if we consider both track event or road.

The table below shows the numbers

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IThe podium of Cali with Jun Zhang (2°) Sergey Shirobokov (1°) and Federico Gonzalez (3°)

respectively World leader, 4th and 15th in 2015 track walk list. 

 

 

Zakhar Sliva,third in the World track list 2015, during his Pit Stop 

in World Youth Championships in Cali