The Australian All School Championships are also taking place in Adelaide, Australia with the following walking events:

- U18 boys: 5.000m track walk

- U18 girls: 5.000m track walk

- U16 boys: 3.000m track walk

- U16 girls: 3.000m track walk

- U16 boys: 3.000m track walk

- U16 girls: 3.000m track walk

5.000m. track walk U18 girls

One of the best results of the day comes precisely from the race of U18 girls, and is signed by Katie Hayward (AUS) who won in 22:06.65.

The young athlete from Queensland has repeated the victory of 2016 when he dominated the race with a time of 21:40.87, touching the personal best of 21:39.03 obtained in Brisbane on October 22, 2016.

Ominously, Hayward said she was off her best form, as she’s hoping to be in top shape for the U20 World Championships mid-2018.

“I’m about 30 seconds slower, but I’m happy. This is a good hit out,” Hayward said. “I tried my best. Because this is my last nationals, I wanted to finish knowing that I did everything that I could so as soon as the gun went off, I went for it.”

The following are the split times:

- 200m: 44:48

- 600m: 2:20.72 (1:36.04)

- 1.000m: 4:02.73 (1:42:01)

- 1.400m: 5:45.85 (1:43.12)

- 1.800m: 7:29.71 (1:43.86)

- 2.200m: 9:16.10 (1:46.39)

- 2.600m: 11.04.04 (1:47.94)

- 3.000m: 12:54.10 (1:50.06)

- 3.400m: 14:46.06 (1:51.96)

- 3.800m: 16:39.39 (1:53.33)

- 4.200m: 18:31.78 (1:52.39)

- 4.600m: 20:23.26 (1:51.48)

- 5.000m: 22:06.65 (1:43.39)

Second place to Jemma Pearth (AUS) in 2412.32

Third place to Alice Randall (AUS) in 24: 26.53

5.000m. track walk U18 boys

The victory in U18 boys went to Mitchell Baker (AUS) in 22:12:26, which also had to bow to the excessive power of Katie Hayward, but which establishes the new personal best on the distance (previous 22:24.53 established at Sydney in the NSW qualifiers for these same championships last October 14, 2017)

Second place to Connor Frew (AUS) in 22:17.80

Third place to Tristan Camillery (AUS) in 22:27.59

As for the other U16 and U14 events we leave the race report in the column of our correspondent Tim Erickson in the next issue of Heel an Toe which will appear in our section “Race walking in the World".

Full results (also of events U16 e U14) in the section Results or download directly from this link: click here