The Regional Championships of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the U18 and U20 categories took place this weekend in Majano near Udine (ITA).
The walking events took place on the second day, Sunday 6.9.2020 starting at 19:02.
5.000m track walk U18 boys
Finally, the expected result for the athlete from Monfalcone (GO) Emiliano Brigante, registered for Trieste Atletica, arrived.
Emiliano Brigante stood out in 2017 when he had won the U16 national review, and then in the first months of 2018 he had achieved a splendid victory at the School Championships in Palermo.
Subsequently at the beginning of 2019 he obtained a series of good U18 performances over the distance of 5.000m track walk culminating with the personal best of 21:40.70 obtained in Udine at the Todaro Memorial on 25.4.2019.
But as is usually the case, his chronometric development did not go hand in hand with the technical one and during the 2019 season he was often object of jury arrows more than a few times, suffering heavy disqualifications.
During the winter of 2020, his coach Sergio Tonut had contacts with the previous head of the Italian race walk, Vittorio Visini who indicated to the coach of young athlete what they have to follow in order to correct the erros, giving some suggestions that evidently found rich ground.
Sunday in Maiano he won the race in 21:00.36 with these split times each 1.000m.
- 1.000m: 4:08.9
- 2.000m: 8:22.0 (4:13.1)
- 3.000m: 12:34.7 (4:12.7)
- 4.000m: 16:47.8 (4:13.1)
- last 1.000m in 4:12.56
This time, in addition to representing the personal best of the athlete at the time of writing, represents the best seasonal world performance for a U18
These are his statements to the press after the race:
"Honestly, my coach and I expected such a result after the specific training sessions of the last few months. However, we are still working intensely on the technique, more specifically on bent knee, to avoid future disqualifications that have come too much in recent years. often".
Next Sunday the athlete will try at the Memorial Rodolfo Crasso in Trieste to obtain a prestigious result on the 10,000m track walk in which he boasts the personal best of 44: 33.84 obtained in Agropoli on 22.6.2019.
5.000m walk on track U18 girls
Victory for Lara Barbato in 29: 40.69