19/01/2020   Schinias (GRE): Dimitri Tsordias and Nikolitsa Andreopoulou win the 50km Championship in Greece






The Panhellenic Walking Championships were held in Schinias near Marathon (GRE).

 
The races took place Sunday 19.1.2020 and the following distances were covered:
- 50km men and women
- 20km women
- 10km women
- 10 km U18 boys and girls
plus some events for younger on shorter distances.
 
The day was certainly not favorable. Bad weather (with rain and low temperatures) was the main condition with which all the athletes had to deal with the long morning of doing.
 
 
50km men
 
Victory for Dimitri Tsordias (GRE) with the mark of 4:41:33, quite far from his personal best (4:26:36) obtained on this same course on 14.1.2018.
Second place to Yannis Vaitis (GRE) in 4:50:32
Third place to Costas Stamelos (GRE) in 5:16:52
 
 

 

 

 
50km women
 
Two athletes at the start of the race.
Victory for Nikolitsa Andreopoulou (GRE) in 5:06:32
Angelki Makri (GRE) instead had to stop due to stomach cramps.
 
 
 

 

 
 
In the other races the following winners were registered:
 
20km women: Maria Asteriou (GRE) in 2:17:17
10km women: Lydia Stupel (GRE) in 55:10
 
 
10km U18 boys
 
Victory for Alexandros Mortzakis (GRE) in 48:40
Second place to Aristotelis Bosdas (GRE) in 50:22
Third place to Michael Kelepouris (GRE) in 51:25
 
 
10km U18 girls
 
Victory to Zafiria Papadimitriou (GRE) in 55:38