Today Saturday 24 February 2018 is being held in Monterrey (MEX) the first day of the Memorial Hausleber second leg of the IAAF Race Walk Challenge.
The events of the first day are as follows at the following local Mexico time:
- 8.00 - 10km U20 men
- 9:30 - 10km U20 women
- 14:00 - 20km men
- 16:00 - 20km women
while tomorrow it will take place at
- 7.00 - 50km open to men and women
The competitions are held inside the Parque Fundidora in the Bulevar del Acero, on a 2km track (1km: go & back) located at 530m above sea level with an average width of about 8m.
All races, both U20 and senior, of the IAAF Challenge will be judged with the rule of the Pit Lane which provides for the following penalties before the eventual disqualification that will start at the fourth red card:
- 3 red cards in 10km U20: 1 minute penalty
- 3 red cards in 20km: 2 minutes penalty
- 3 red cards in the 50km: 3 minutes penalty
10km U20 men
Victory to Cesar Cordova Fernandez (MEX) in 42:36.
Second place to Saul Mena Gomez (MEX) in 42:56.
Third place to José Gilberto Menjival Aviles (ESA) in 43:44
Twenty-two athletes at the start of which 20 completed the race, and 2 DQ.
10km U20 women
Victory to Alegna Aryday Gonzalez Munoz (MEX) in 45:20.
Second place to Noelia Vargas Mena (CRC) in 48:56.
Third place to Maria Alejandra Chaparro Salinas (COL) in 49:43
Nineteen athletes at the start of which 18 completed the race, and 1 DQ.
20km uomini
All together of the first two laps. The pack is led by Omar Pineda (MEX) and Perseus Karlstrom (SWE).
Nothing changes in the third lap that is passed in 8:44 (4:22/km), the group is always compact.
The move to the fourth lap sees the head of Perseus Karstrom (SWE) with about ten meters ahead of the rest of the group.
On the fifth lap Lebogang Shange (RSA) catched Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) in the leadership of the race with a lap of 8:25.
The split time to 10km is 42:41
Sixth step: Lebogang Shange detached about five meters Perseus Karlstrom, which in turn has about ten meters on the rest of the group.
Seventh lap of Shange in an incredible 8:14 and increases the advantage on Karstrom that was reached by Yerko Araya (CHI).
The next round of Shange is covered in 8:17.
In the last two laps we see the recovery of Carlos Sanchez Cantera (MEX) and Mauricio Areteaga Sanchez (ECU).
Victory to Lebogang Shange (RSA) in 1: 24.32
Second place to Carlos Sanchez Cantera (MEX) in 1:24:59
Third place to Mauricio Arteaga Sanchez (ECU) in 1:25:10
20km women
It was almost a solo of Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX).
The Olympic and World silver, after six km of the race forced the pace and has flown towards the victory with a time of 1:27:46.
At the moment this result represents the third seasonal world performance behind the results of Yelena Lashmanova (RUS - 1:26:23) and Mariya Ponomaryova (RUS - 1:27:11) obtained a week ago in Sochi (RUS).
Certainly the temperature did not help the strong Mexican athlete.
Second place to Erica de Sena (BRA) in 1:30:47
Third place to the stainless Ines Henriques (POR) in 1:32:08.
Valentina Trapletti (ITA) also performed well in this race. She got an excellent fifth place (albeit with a not so impressive time - 1:36:18 - after the workloads in Albuquerque) behind Kimberly Garcia (PER) in 1:32:56.
Full results (of the first day) in the section Results or download directly from this link: click here
Photo album: click here