Weekend of interesting walk also in Italy, where in Agropoli, near Salerno, the Italian Championships U20 and U23 took place with the classic races on the distance of 10.000m track walk.
10,000m U20 men track walk
They start in nineteen, a good number.
Victory to Riccardo Orsoni (ITA) in 43: 59.30 new personal best (previous of 43: 59.53 established in Livorno on Apr. 22, 2018)
Second place to Nicolas Fanelli (ITA) in 44:09.40
Third place to Diego Chirivì (ITA) in 44:35.94 also for him new personal best (previous of 44:47.20 established in Turin on May 5, 2018)
They finish the race in seventeen, 1 DNF (after serving a penalty of 60") and 1 DQ (even after having paid a penalty of 60")
10,000m U23 men track walk
Victory to Gianluca Picchiottino (ITA) in 40:17.14
Second place to Stefano Chiesa (ITA) in 40:34.56 new personal best (previous of 41:16.39 established in Cinisello Balsamo on May 26, 2018).
Third place to Giacomo Brandi (ITA) in 41:42.17 new personal best (precvious of 42:02.94 established in Macerata on May 5, 2018).
Nine athletes at the start with eight that complete the race and 1 DQ
10,000m U20 women track walk
The eighteen-year-old Andrada Lavinia Lacatus, who is still awaiting Italian citizenship, is reconfirmed and this year she has already won two titles: the 3,000m indoor and the 20km on the road.
We have already expressed our opinion on the talent of the young athlete.
Today we only add that the result obtained in Agropoli is currently the seventh world performance of the 2018 season over the distance of 10,000m track walk.
Here below the list of the first 10 performances
Her victory has never been questioned ends from the third kilometer of the race.
Even theperformance obtained is quite good (49:48.43).
Second place to Camilla Crivellaro (ITA) in 51 55.61 that uses the stop to a lap from the arrival of Vittoria Giordani who was in second position.
Third place to Anthea Mirabello (ITA) in 52:46.99
Twenty-seven athletes at the start. Twenty finish the race with 6 DNF and 1 DQ (after anyway the stop in the Penalty Area)
10,000m U23 women track walk
Victory to Lidia Barcella (ITA) in 47:46.47 new personal best (previous of 48:55.08 established in Cinisello Balsamo on Apr. 23, 2017).
Second place to Martina Ansaldi (ITA) in 48:52.87 new personal best (previous of 51:10.92 established in Trieste on June 30, 2017).
Third place to Giulia Imbesi (ITA) in 50:45.83 new personal best (previous of 52:09.97 established in Caorle on May 29, 2016).
Fifteen athletes at the start; 2 DNF and 1 DQ
A short technical comment
We allow ourselves, and hopefully we do not want to hurt anyone, to insist once again on the standard anomaly that is found in Italian races compared to international ones.
We refer to the relationship between the red cards as consequence of bent knee with respect to the total number of cards.
We have summarized it in the following table that we propose to our readers.
| Event | Bent Knee | % | Loss of Contact | % | Total | % |
| | | | | | | |
| Men U20 | 14 | 93,4 | 1 | 6,6 | 15 | 100 |
| Men U23 | 5 | 83,3 | 1 | 16,7 | 6 | 100 |
| Women U20 | 20 | 100 | - | | 20 | 100 |
| Women U23 | 6 | 85,7 | 1 | 14,3 | 7 | 100 |
| Total | 45 | 93,8 | 3 | 6,2 | 48 | 100 |
The content is commented on by itself.
In our opinion, these percentages seem to give unfortunately the indication of how much the degree of perception of the difference between the errors of bent knee and loss of contact has been lost.
The recent DQ Posting Doard of an international competition
Full results in the section Results or directly download from this link: click here