Below our favourite in Rome 2016

10 km U20 men

Three are the athletes who have a time tbelow 41:00 on 10km and they are all of China: Zhang Jun, Jin Xiangqian, Linfeng Hu.

Follow them a package of athletes with a time less than 42:00, the Japanese Masaya Ishikawa, Masatora Kawano and Ryutaro Yamamoto.

Follow the Spanish Manuel Bermudez, the Mexicans Andres Olivas and Noel Ali Chama, the English Callum Wilkinson and the Italian Giacomo Brandi.

Marcia dal Mondo indicates as favorite Jun Zhang that last year in Cali won the silver medal.

In teams: China 

10 km U20 Women

Even in this race three Chinese on top of the ranking: Zhenxia Ma, Lifang Zhang, Li Ma, but heeled by Noemi Stella (ITA). All are under the wall of 45:00.

Two other athletes are credited with times of less than 46:00: Taika Numi (FIN) and Valeria Ortuno (MEX).

Two other with time less than 47:00: Zoe Hunt (AUS) and Clara Smith AUS).

Marcia dal Mondo indicates as favored Zhenxia Ma, although the heart say Noemi Stella.

In teams: China

20 km men

Difficult choice to a favorite.

Three elite Japanese: Eiki Takahashi, Isamu Fujisawa and Takumi Saito.

Four are the elite Chinese: Wang Zhen, Chen Ding, Cai Zelin, Wang Kailua.

There are three Canadians: Inaki Gomez, Benjamin Thorne and Evan Dunfee.

These are joined by Dane Bird-Smith (AUS), Lebogang Shange (RSA), Ruslan Dmytrenko (UKR), but above all Eider Arevalo (COL) and Miguel Angel Lopez (ESP).  The last one, if decides to play his role he does usually for the victory.

Marcia dal Mondo indicates a quartet of favorites: Eiki Takahashi, Zhen Wang, Eider Arevalo and Cai Zelin.

In teams: Japan, China and Canada all equal.

20 km women

Four Chinese (Hong Liu, Shenjie Qieyang, Xiuzhi Lu and Jiayu Yang), two Italian (Eleonora Giorgi and Elisa Rigaudo), a Brazilian (Erica De Sena) and two Portuguese (Ana Cabecinha and Ines Henriques) here is the parterre of the favorites.

Reason says Hong Liu that since she broke the world record in La Coruna last year seems to have taken on a different dimension.

She will be up against Xiuzhi Lu, although we think that the fireworks will be true in Rio.

Do not underestimate the desire for revenge in Rome of the two Italian.

Marcia dal Mondo indicates: Hong Liu (65%), Xiuzhi Lu, Eleonora Giorgi and Elisa Rigaudo (all with 15%)

In teams: China (90%) and Italy (10%)

50 km men

The first five athletes of the year are Chinese (Han Yucheng, Zhan Hang, Lu Jian, Faguang Xu, Zhang Ling).

Then there's Jared Tallent who never misses a match, and Igor Glavan (UKR).

Again in competitions, after the banned period for doping, Alex Schwarzer (ITA) looking for the entry standard to Rio de Janeiro, even if no one believes that he wants to be limited to this. In the Italian team also Marco De Luca, Matteo Giupponi, Federico Tontodonati and Teodorico Caporaso: a very good team.

Marcia dal Mondo indicates: Ling Zhang, Jared Tallent and Igor Glavan

In teams: China and Italy