In November, she will turn 36 years, many of which are dedicated along with Laura's sister, to race walking.

We are talking about Marie Polli, athlete of Switzerland (Ticino) well known in Italy for her frequent races in Lombardy and also for being previously coached by Pietro Pastorini.

The nice Ticino athlete of SAL Lugano, 19 years after her first title (Chailly-sur-Montreux), won her 14th title in what the same athlete said should be her last Swiss Championship.

Time: 50:46.4, after having covered the first 5 km in 25:42.1.

This year Marie Polli had already obtained in Lomello (ITA) on the 5km road in April, the time 25:03 and in Rome on the occasion of the IAAF World Race Walk Team Championships the performance 1:41:06 (77th place).

In the race on the new track of the Stade de la Saussaz, Chially in the second place arrived  Corinne Henchoz in 59:03.2 (split time at 5.000m in 29:18.1).

Third place went to Millija Zinkovska in 1:03:47.3

In the men's race victory for Claude Berner in 1:02:33.5, in front of Claude Greber (1:02: 36.3) and Bernard Cossy (1: 05: 00.0).