While the 2018 European Athletics Championships, which are scheduled for July in Berlin, have 20km walks for men and women and a 50km walk for men, the published timetable does not show a 50km for women. 

This is very disappointing considering that the women's 50km championship was included in the 2017 IAAF World Championships and is scheduled for the 2018 World Race Walking Teams Championships, and considering that the current world champion and world record holder is European athlete Inês Henriques.

For this reason European walkers Inês Henriques (POR) and María Dolores Marcos Valero (ESP) have, via their attorney Paul DeMeester, filed a case with the European Athletics Association Court (EAA Court).

This claim is quite different to the previous two which were able to be directed to the independent Court of Arbitration in Sport. In this case, the claim has been lodged with the EAA Court which is appointed by the European Athletics Association Council.

Gender discrimination is the central issue here, just as it was in the 2016 World Race Walking Teams Championships and in the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships in London.

European Athletics decided to make a decision by Jan. 31, 2018.