In the Olympic rowing center near Marathon (Schinias beach, GRE) 40 km east of Athens took place on January 14, 2018 the national race walking Championships of Greece on 50 km and the 6th race walking winter games.
The national championship was a trail for the European championship in Berlin.
It was also the occasion for Greece to see at the start the 1st champiomship for 50 km Women.
At the start also 2 foreigner athletes: Gregorio Angelini (ITA) in men and Ivana Renits (CRO) in women who unforunately didn't finish the competiton cause of the bad weather.
The weather was cold, with a lot of wing and sometimes raining with a temperature between 5° to 9° Celsius. This maked problems to the athletes and of them didn’t finish the competiton.
50km women
Angeliki Makri (GRE), born in 1978 and mother of 3 young children was the 1st winner of 50 km women Championships after finishing the race in 4:56:00. In 2000, she stopped her race walk activity to dedicate at the family and last year she come back.
Second place to Nikolitsa Andreopoulos (GRE) in 5:05:39,
Third place to Eftathia Kourkoutsaki (GRE) in 5:34.21
50 km men
Victory to Konstantinos Ntentopoulos (GRE) in 4:24:57 at his second victory in these 50km Championships.
Second place to Dimitris Tsioridas (GRE) in 4:26:36
Third place to Kostas Stamelos (GRE) in 4:35:18
In other races interesting was the result of Yiorgos Tzatzimakis (GRE) who walked for the first time 20km (1:30:36) in order to have a long distance train for the U20 World Championships in Filand next summer.
(Co-operation by Zoe Gkini - GRE)