Saturday, March 4 in Valverde in the island of El Hierro, the most westerly of the Canary Islands will host the 86th edition of the Spanish Championship of road walk.

The competition is valid as a selection criterion for the European Cup to be held in Podebrady (CZE) on May 21, 2017.

Will be scheduled the following races, from which it is excluded the 20km men:

50km men

The best accreditation time is to Jose Ignacio Diaz (3:51:10, dated 2005) before Francisco Arcilla (3:55:06). These are the only two athletes who have entered a time under 4:00:00.

Other athlete of interest are Luis Manuel Corchete (4:03.23, having in any case a personal best 3:59.58 obtained in Pontevedra, ESP il March 4, 2012), but mostly it will be interesting to see the first time on the 50km for the young Diego Garcia (born in 1996) accredited with a PB on 20km of 1:21:36.

In 2016 the title was won by Miguel Angel Lopez in 3:53:52 in Puerto Motril on Feb. 28, 2016

20km women

Unfortunately, in the race of women are absent some illustrious names due to injuries and muscle problems.

Will therefore not be the start Julia Takacs (in recovery from a lung disease in July 2016), Raquel Gonzalez (recovering after a knee surgery), Beatriz Pascual and Maria Jose Poves (after-effect of flu), who will try to qualify for the European Cup next April 2, 2017 in Merida (ESP).

The victory will be a matter between the U23 Laura Garcia-Caro (1:29:32) and Maria Perez (1:33:44) and the most experienced Ainhoa ​​Pinedo (1:31:58) and Amanda Cano (1:35:14). Ainhoa ​​Pinedo will have saturai the opportunity to test the seven-week training period passed in Australia.

In 2016 the title had been won by Beatriz Pascual in 1:29:27 in Puerto Motril on Feb. 28, 2016

In addition to these championship races also will take place for U20 and U18 races on 10km valid for the Championships of Spain of Autonomous Federations