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30/12/2018 - Saransk (RUS): victories of Yelena Lashmanova and Sergey Shirobokov - Denis Nizhegorodov announces his retirement at 38 years of age
And we end the year 2018 with two flash news from Russia. Indoor Championships of the Republic of Mordovia in Saransk 5.000m indoor women The London Olympic champion 2014, Yelena Lashmanova won the indoor walking champion...
27/12/2018 - Tokyo (JPN): 310 entries at 67th edition of New Year Race Walk Meeting
An impressive number of enties those registered in Tokyo (JPN) for the race that will contest to Hong Kong the title of the "first race of the year" 2019. The very young U18 girls will start at 8:50 on the distance of 3km. Following...
24/12/2018 - Lievin (FRA): David Kuster establishes the new U20 France record on 5.000m indoor walk
It seems that the week before Christmas, for David Kuster (FRA) is a week always to be framed. Already last year in Nogent-sur-Oise (FRA) on December 17 the not yet twenty year old French (born on 25.3.1999) had set the new record U20 of Fran...
22/12/2018 - 2019 of Liu Hong: 50km goal
Time zone allowing this year the race organized by the Hong Kong Race Walking Association will not be the first race in the world in 2019. Even if just a little (about thirty minutes) will be preceded as last year by that of Tokyo that will inaugura...
21/12/2018 - Getafe (ESP): victories of Alvaro Nunez Gomez and Lidia Sanchez-Puebla
Getafe (ESP) near Madrid hosted the 20th edition of the "Trofeo di Marcha Asociaciòn Deportiva Cerro de Buenavista" on Sunday, which was then matched by the Spanish Road Race Masters Championships. ...
20/12/2018 - Section Athletes: updated reports of best world athletes men
Sandro Damilano has finished updating the 2017 most representing male athletes in the world included with the most up-to-date technical reports. The section dedicated to Foreign Athletes (men) was updated at Dec. 31, 2018. Th...
14/12/2018 - Italy in Race Walking Judges Panels
It was the year 1990 when Tiziano Campedelli, then Fiduciario Nazionale of the GGG of Fidal, with a great foresight, proposed to Palle Lassen two young Italian judges for the role of International Race Walking Judges at the IAAF: they were Lamberto ...
13/12/2018 - Fabio Ruzzier 50 years of activity in athletics
Friday December 7, at the Grezar Stadium in Trieste a nice initiative took place. Fabio Ruzzier, an athlete known in all continents in particular for his activity in the world of Masters, has singularly celebrated his 50 years of conti...
10/12/2018 - Raheny (IRL): Victories of Erick Barrondo and Mirna Ortiz (GUA) in 30km; of Brendan Boyce (IRL) and Ivana Renic (CRO) in 20km
On Saturday 8 December, St. Anne's Park in Raheny hosted the Irish Life Health National Championships of 20km and 30km in Ireland. Not many athletes at the start, but with some names of foreign athletes to highlight the races. Suffice it ...
09/12/2018 - Guadix (ESP): Luis Alberto Amezcua and Maria Perez won the 14th Memorial Alcalde
Guadix (ESP) hosted yesterday the "VIII Campeonato de Espana de marcha de invierno de promocion" with an interesting series of races that began at 16:00 with the 3km U16 female and continued with the remaining races on the distance of 5km ...
07/12/2018 - Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez suspended per doping (trenbolone)
A Mexican tragedy. Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Romero was found positive to a doping control and was therefore suspended provisionally. The provision is dated 16 November but was only announced yesterday by the Athletics Integrity Unit of the Internati...
04/12/2018 - Go ahead for the 50km women in Tokyo
A news worthy of note. The IAAF Council approved the recommendation to the International Olympic Committee to include the 50km women's race walk. The women's race will be conducted at the same time as the 50km men race walk and athle...
03/12/2018 - Strengthening the race of the 50km race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, making it gender equality
The IAAF Council will take place in Munich today and tomorrow. We have come into possession, received by a mutual friend, of an interesting document entitled "Strengthening the race of the 50km race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, ...
02/12/2018 - Melbourne (AUS): Caio Bonfim and Claire Tallent won Australian Open 50km Championships
People who know the local Melbourne summer weather will be unsurprised to hear that while Saturday was a horridly hot and windy day and while Saturday night was stormy, with rain and thunder, Sunday morning dawned still, overcast and cool. After las...
30/11/2018 - Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) athlete of the year in the Marcia dal Mondo poll
A month ago we launched a survey among our readers with the aim of getting to know their idea on the best walkers of the year 2018 proposed by Marcia dal Mondo. We now want to remember that in the men we had proposed the following ten ...
29/11/2018 - Koki Ikeda (JPN) athlete of the year in the Marcia dal Mondo poll
A month ago we launched a survey among our readers with the aim of getting to know their idea on the best walkers of the year 2018 proposed by Marcia dal Mondo. We now want to remember that in the men we had proposed the following ten ...
27/11/2018 - Revised final standings of 2018 IAAF Challenge
Almost two months after the last race in China, IAAF has revised the results of the 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. The mistake was that no points were awarded at the European Championships in Berlin. On the women's side, this ...
26/11/2018 - Areas-World: "negative spread" in 20km men average speed
The last chart that we propose our readers is that of 20km men. We summarize data selection standard. - We have first of all chosen the best ten performances in the world as they appear from the official lists of the IAAF - We have limited ou...
25/11/2018 - Areas-World: "negative spread" in 20km women average speed
The second chart that we propose our readers is that of 20km women. We summarize data selection standard. - We have first of all chosen the best ten performances in the world as they appear from the official lists of the IAAF - We have limite...
23/11/2018 - Areas-World: "negative spread in 50km men average speed
This year we wanted to enrich our area dedicated to statistics by providing our readers with an additional tool for analyzing the individual specialties of race walking. We wanted to call him with a name similar to one quite fashionable in th...
22/11/2018 - Italy vs. World: difference in speed in the three Olympic specialties
Even this year Marcia dal Mondo wanted to enrich the statistical analysis by adding the following interesting comparisons: a) 20 km men: the speed of the top Italian athlete compared with th...
21/11/2018 - Trends of speed performances in women walking
Like every year at this time in the Statistics section were published graphs updated for trends of speed performances in road walking events. As done last year also in 2018 we made two...
20/11/2018 - Toledo (ESP): Diego Garcia and Raquel Gonzalez won the 31st "Espada Toledana"
On Saturday 17 November 2018 the 31st edition of the "Espada Toledana" took place in Toledo. This year's edition took place on track, rather than the traditional 5km route due to renovations. The distance in the two most important even...
19/11/2018 - Trends of speed performances in men walking
Like every year at this time in the Statistics section were published graphs updated for trends of speed performances in road walking events. The years taken into consideration, r...
01/11/2018 - Marcia dal Mondo: Female athlete of the year 2018
We arrive now to the nomination of the female category. Nomination We have considered for the nomination of athlete of the year all the athletes who during the months from January to October 2018 have had a nomination for athlet...
31/10/2018 - Marcia dal Mondo: Male athlete of the year 2018
At the beginning of 2018 we started for the first time to publish "the athlete of the month" we had in our mind the goal of arriving at a choice shared by the readers of Marcia dal Mondo of "athlete of the year". Now, when...
30/10/2018 - Takayuki Tanii (JPN): announced his last race
Takayuki Tanii was in 2015 the athlete symbol of Japan's renaissance in race walking. Never before (it was August 29, 2015) a Japanese athlete had managed to win an individual medal in an IAAF World Championship or another major event (Ol...
29/10/2018 - Tomohiro Noda (JPN) and Valentyna Myronchuk (UKR) best athletes of October 2018
We return today to the athlete's choice of the month of October 2018 Men category The month has reserved a certain activity that has interested in particular the national championships of Ukrain...
28/10/2018 - Takahata (JPN): Tomohiro Noda wins the 50km in 3:39:47 new Japan record and 2018 world best performance
This morning at 8:00 (Japan time, one of the night in Europe as the summer time ended at two in the night) took place the 57th edition of the 50km All Japan Race Walking. The circuit was 2km (1km go & back) with a slight slope of 4m over ...
28/10/2018 - Grottammare (ITA): In U18 victories of Daniele Breda and Martina Casiraghi
The last round of race walk in Italy for the 2018 season is that of Grottammare where this year the National Final of the U18 Race Walk Individual Trophyis held with a completely new test reserved for the Regions of Italy that will compete with at l...
25/10/2018 - A lot of updates in the section History
As usual, this last part of the season is dedicated to the annual update of the History section. This year the most important events of which Marcia dal Mondo updates the facts of the History were five. IAAF World Race Wa...
24/10/2018 - Grottammare (ITA): Sunday October 28 the last 2018 race walking competition in Italy
The last race walk appointment in Italy is approaching. To host it will be as usual city of Grottammare on the coast of Ascoli Piceno for the organization of the Centro Marcia Solestà of Ascoli Piceno. This year to honor the lat...
23/10/2018 - Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR): Dmytro Sobchuk and Valentina Myronchuk win 50km Ukrainian Championships
During the weekend between 20 and 21 October, the 22nd 50km National Championships took place in Ukraine, in Ivano-Frankivsk, with some other events. 50 km men At the 10km lead three athletes: Dmytro Sobchuk (47:56), Serh...
22/10/2018 - Davide Finocchietti e Aldo Andrei: what a day !
Yesterday in our usual report on the races of the Italian Championship of 50km we flew, leaving only a slight mention of the two surprises of the 10km race, also valid for the title of Italian Champion U18 of 10km road walk. Let's now loo...
21/10/2018 - Reggio Emilia: Leonardo Dei Tos Italian Champion of 50km
The ideal day for the 50km walk. A nice circuit in the city center of Reggio Emilia (ITA), although quite hard, with slight slopes in several parts of the circuit of 2.000m which is repeated 25 times. 50km men The most important...
18/10/2018 - 50km: Entry list of Reggio Emilia (ITA) and Takahata (JPN) next week
Between this weekend and the next two important national events will take place on the distance of 50km. Both will also have some very interesting side events. Let's start from the first one Sunday 21st October 2018 -...
17/10/2018 - From Qinghai to Buenos Aires, the travel dream of a shepherd girl
The seventeen-year-old who dominated the two stages of the 5000 track walk in Buenos Aires in 2018, grew up on the Chinese plateau of Qinghai-Tibet, a place called the "roof of the world" and certainly this has helped her organically. &nbs...
16/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Xi Ricuo (CHN) wins the second stage and gold
Sunny afternoon in Buenos Aires for the second day of the U18 girls race walk, the one that will award the medals. The race, as in the first day will be on 5,000m track. Today's time will be added to that of the first day to determine the final ...
16/10/2018 - Suraj Panwar (IND) the new name of race walk in Asia
We had repeatedly said that the center of gravity of the world race walk had moved to Asia, but, to be honest, we meant China and Japan. We knew that India presented numbers at the start, that for us in Europe are now a distant memory. But ma...
15/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Suraj Panwar (IND) wins the 2nd stage and Oscar Patin (ECU) wins gold
Sunny afternoon in Buenos Aires for the second day of the race walk U18 boys, the one that will award the medals. The race, as in the first day will be on 5,000m track walk. Today's time will be added to that of the first day to determine...
14/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Youth Olympic Games - 2nd stage
Tomorrow at 2.30pm local time (7.30pm CET) in Buenos Aires the second stage, the one that will establish the final result of the Youth Olympic Games in the race. 5.000m U18 boys track walk After what we saw in the first s...
12/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Xi Ricuo (CHN) win the first stage of the Youth Olympic Games
Second day and first test of the women's 5,000m track walk. The temperature is fresh (16°C) and also the humidity is acceptable (66%) 5.000m track walk U18 girls One of the favorites, Xi Ricuo (CHN), immediately lead the...
11/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Oscar Patin (ECU) win the first stage of the Youth Olympic Games
A cloudy day is the setting for the first ever track of the athletics. It is the one dedicated to the first stage of men's race walk. 5.000m track walk U18 boys Wang Xin (CHN) who is officially accredited by no time...
10/10/2018 - Alina Tsviliy (UKR) suspended by IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit
The IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit on 4.9.2018 opened a disciplinary process against athlete Alina Tsviliy (born Halchenko) and consequently her provisional suspension was in force. If the procedure confirms the athlete's positivity (adver...
10/10/2018 - Buenos Aires (ARG): Youth Olympic Games
Start today in Buenos Aires (ARG) the athletics competitions in the third edition of the Youth Olympic Games. The inaugural test is precisely the 5.000m track walk U18 boys students who will follow those of the students tomorrow. 5.000m tra...
08/10/2018 - Fukui (JPN): Kumiko Okada wins the 73rd Sport National Festival
This morning (Japan time) in Fukui (JPN) which hosts the 73rd National Sports Festival, the women's walking events and the U20 and U18 boys race were held on the distance of 5.000m on the track. 5.000m women's track walk ...
07/10/2018 - Wien (AUT): 50km international race and more distances
An international 50km race walk was held yesterday in Vienna (AUT), also valid for the title of the Polish Champion on the 50km road walk. Nine Nations athletes took part in the race on a 2km course (1km go & back) on the central Prater a...
07/10/2018 - Fukui (JPN): Koki Ikeda wins the 73rd Sport National Festival
Today and tomorrow the city of Fukui (JPN) hosts the 73rd National Sports Festival. Today the men's competitions were held. 10.000m men's track walk Twenty-one athletes at the start. Immediately goes to lead the r...
06/10/2018 - Rieti (ITA): Victories of Giada Traina and Nicola Lomuscio
It rains at intervals in Rieti throughout the afternoon, but the god of rain decides that the moment to show his power is that of the start of 3.000m track walk of U16 girls. On the other hand, it often happens! 3.000m track walk U16 g...
05/10/2018 - Rieti (ITA): U16 (boys and girls) Italian Championships
In the weekend in Rieti the U16 Individual Championships. The two walking events tests take place on Saturday with the following times: - U16 girls: 15:15 with 3.000m track walk - U16 boys: 16:45 with 5.000m track walk 5.000m U1...
02/10/2018 - Eider Arevalo (COL) and Liang Rui (CHN) best athletes of september 2018
We return today to the athlete's choice of the month of September 2018 Men category In a month with reduced activity only for the National Championships of China, Italy, Lithuania and the Multiday competition o...
01/10/2018 - Around Taihu International Race Walk (CHN): red cards and penalties
From most people we have had the request to offer our readers two tables that summarizes the red cards and the related penalties received by the most important athletes in the three races of the Multiday Event "Around Taihu". We hav...
01/10/2018 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): victories of Miroslav Uradnik (SVK) and Viktoria Madarasz (HUN)
The second edition of the international walking meeting in the park took place on Saturday at the SNP Memorial in Banska Bystrica (SVK). An exceptional starter was Matej Toth (SVK). On this occasion he was also awarded the "coach...
30/09/2018 - International Match HUN-CRO-CZE-SLO-SVK
Gyor (HUN) yesterday hosted an international match between Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia at U16 level. The match also included the walking revents that took place, both for U16 bioys and girls over the distance of 30...
30/09/2018 - The finals of U18 boys and girls Club Championships
That the Finals of the U18 Clubs Championships presented in boys a parterre of non-top athletes we had already said during the presentation of the race; the only venue that in our opinion presented a duel of a certain interest was that of the Finale...
29/09/2018 - Cuenca (ECU) - Cesar Rodriguez (PER) and Leyde Jossy Guerra (PER) win U2e Suamerican Championships
This morning (local time) took place in Cuenca (ECU) the two walking events of the South American U23 Championships. Both races took place on the distance of 20,000m on track. 20.000m men's track walk Victory t...
28/09/2018 - Tomorrow in Italy the national finals of U18 boys and girls Clubs Championships
On Saturday there will be the National finals of the Clubs Championships on track for U18 boys and girls with the usual walking events that will be disputed on the distance of 5.000m track. La Fidal has published the list of departing athlete...
28/09/2018 - Around Taihu International Race Walk - a successful format
When a few months ago the Chinese Athletic Association invited me to act as a walking judge at the international competition "Around Taihu" I thought: "Who knows what my last international race will be like?" Yes, because the pro...
26/09/2018 - Mudu (CHN): Eider Arevalo and Wang Yingliu win the Taihu Multiday 2018
A day with a little veiled sky awaits the walkers at the start in the center of Mudu. The challenge, in particular for individual victory in men, is an exciting one: they are both at the same time after two stages. 12km men The ...
25/09/2018 - Taihu Park (CHN): Victories of Eider Arevalo and Qieyang Shenije
Second day of competition in Taihu, on a new route that involves a stretch on the road and a stretch in a park for a total of 12km. Yesterday less hot day and more ventilated. 12km men A compact group of up to seven kilom...
24/09/2018 - Taihu (CHN): Victories of Leobogang Shange (RSA) and Wang Yingliu in the first stage
A fairly hot day with a temperature of 28°C and a high humidity level. Every so often a gust of breeze coming from the Lake of Taihu relieves the efforts of the walkers. The course is the usual traditional one with a 10km go & back co...
22/09/2018 - Mottola - Antonella Palmisano and Lorenzo Dessì today married
A particular Saturday, September 22, 2018. We find ourselves in the ancient Church of Santa Maria Assunta that historians Marco Lupo and Michele Lentini claim existed already in the tenth century, and that was then destroyed in 1102, together...
22/09/2018 - Pavia (ITA): Victories of Stefano Chiesa and Martina Ansaldi
As planned, the two finals of the U23 Society Championships for men and women were held in Pavia. 5.000m men's track walk The forecast of the eve has been respected. The race was resolved in a battle between two Stefa...
21/09/2018 - Pavia (ITA): the national final of the U23 Clubs Championships
On Saturday 22nd September in Pavia the National Championships of the Company Championships will take place. The two walking events will take place at the same time (18:15) in separate lanes, as has been used for some time now. Both tests wil...
20/09/2018 - Ravne (SLO): awakening of race walking in Slovenia
Also in Slovenia, the final race of the Slovenian Race Walk Championships for Clubs took place on 15 September 2018. The fifth and final leg of the Slovenian Race Walk Club's Championship was held in Ravne (Slovenian Carinthia),...
17/09/2018 - Bragança Paulista (BRA): victories of Caio Bonfim and Erica de Sena
The Brasil Trophy that took place from the 14th to the 16th of September in Bragança Paulista (BR) saw the return to the races of Caio Bonfim (BRA). On Saturday 15th September, the race walk events on the distance of 50km and 20km with...
16/09/2018 - Trieste (ITA): the 10th memorial Rodolfo Crasso a muted celebration
What a sadness in the tenth edition of the Memorial Rodolfo Crasso who wanted to remember the president of the historic club of Trieste born in 1945 after 2nd world war. First of all for the location. In the last two editions, t...
15/09/2018 - Trnava (SVK): the U16 Championships of Slovakia
The U16 Championships of Slovakia are being held in Trnava (SVK). The walking races were held on Saturday, September 15, 2018 on the distance of the 3,000m track walk for both males and females. 3.000m U16 boys track walk Eight ...
13/09/2018 - Kawasaki City (JPN) victories of Aguri Ashi (JPN) and Koki Ikeda (JPN)
Kawasaki City, in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo hosted the 87th edition of the Japan Intercollegiate Athletics Championships on Friday, September 7, 2018, a sort of Student Championships open not only to high schools but also to universities. &nbs...
10/09/2018 - Druskininkai (LTU): Victories of Brigita Virbalytė-Dimsiene (LTU) and Alexander Liakhovič (BLR)
On Saturday September 8th, Druskininkai (LTU) hosted an international race walk meeting also valid as the Lithuanian championship on the distance of 10km. 10km women Brigita Virbalytė-Dimsiene (LTU) has improved the record of th...
09/09/2018 - In Mati (GRE) the 9th Athens walkamp
After 50 days from the great fire tragety with 98 death peorle in Mati, 50 km east from Athens, the 9th Athens race walking camp send a&n...
08/09/2018 - Pescara (ITA) - Antonella Palmisano and Massimo Stano Italian Champions
The walking races begin in Pescara's waterfront in the rain. 10km women Quiet departure. The passage to 1km sees in the head Antonella Palmisano and Valentina Trapletti in 4:38 The couple continues to agree with the followin...
08/09/2018 - Xi'an (CHN): Luo Dongpo and Liang Rui win 50km at Chinese Autumn Championships
The morning of the second day of the China Autumn Championships in Dali near Xi'an saw the performance of long distance races. Starting at 7:00 am on a day warmer than yesterday's, they showed up at the start: - 50km men: 57 athletes ...
07/09/2018 - Xi'an (CHN): Yin Jiaxing and Lu Xiuzhi win the autumn China Championships
They are taking place in Dali, a town about 200 km away. from the capital of Shaanxi, Xi'an (CHN), the Autumn Chinese Championships. Xi'an is a large city as well as the capital of the Shaanxi province of Central China and is known fo...
04/09/2018 - Pescara (ITA) - Italian Championship
On Friday, September 7th, the Italian Athletics Championships will start in Pescara. The walking events will take place on the road on a course already experienced for the 2009 Mediterranean Games on the seafront of Pescara on the distance of...
02/09/2018 - Dubnica nad Váhom (SVK): Victories of Miroslav Uradnik and Maria Czakova
Intense this weekend for race walk. The National Club Championship finals were also held in Slovakia with two tests on the distance of 5.000m track walk. 5.000m men track walk Victory to Miroslav Uradnik (SVK) in 20:15.16...
02/09/2018 - Tampere (FIN): great mark of Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) at Finnkamp 2018
The walking events of the classic Finland-Sweden match Finnkampen took place yesterday in Tampere. A match that is a tradition since the first edition dates back to 1925 and over the years has always grown as the most important moment of a prestigio...
01/09/2018 - Lake Kawana (AUS): victories of Tyler Jones and Rachel Tallent
On Sunday, August 26, Australian Road Walk (winter) Championships took place at Lake Kawana in Queensland on the Sunshine Coast. Time has certainly not helped the athletes who have had to race under a constant rain and with very difficult wea...
01/09/2018 - Coatzacoalcos (MEX): great result of Isaac Palma (MEX)
The second edition of the Coatza Race Walk Circuit, which took place on Saturday 25th August in the city of Coatzacoalcos in the state of Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, has not gone unnoticed. This is the second edition that wants to honor ...
31/08/2018 - Maryan Zakalnytskyy (UKR) and Ines Henriques (POR) best athletes of august 2018
The month of August 2018 was a very busy month with regards to race walk. All the most important athletic competitions in the world have included race walk in their program. We list them: August 1: Barranquilla (COL) - Juegos Centroamericanos...
31/08/2018 - Daisuke Matsunaga (JAP) and Li Maucuo (CHN) best athletes of July 2018
We return today to the choice of the athlete of the month, which in the last month of July we had postponed. Let's start again just re-proposing our nomination of the month of July 2018 In the next days we will update...
30/08/2018 - Jakarta (INA): Hayato Katsuki (JPN) wins - despite the penalty - the 50km of Asian Games 2018
It was the day of 50km. at the Asian Games in Jakarta. Race full of twists played in climatic conditions beyond the normal limit. A devilishly hot, starting from 8 and, above all, a humidity of 90%. It was difficult for the misty cape to see ...
29/08/2018 - Jakarta (INA): Wang Kaihua and Yang Jiayu won the 20km of the Asian Games 2018
They were held this morning (leaving at 6 for males, 6.10 for women) the two 20 km. valid for the Asian Games. In both races 11 athletes at the start. Seven nations were represented in men and eight in women. Temperature at 24° Celsius - humidit...
28/08/2018 - Jakarta (INA): Tomorrow the 20km of Asian games
Tomorrow morning, at an almost impossible time for the European mentality (6:00), the two races of the 20km of the Asian Games will start in Jakarta, Palembang. Below is the starting list 20km uomini I...
28/08/2018 - Eskilstuna (SWE): Monica Svensson and Perseus Karlstrtom champions of Sweden
The initiative by Sweden was very interesting, with the National Championships taking place over two days and two different races, one short and one long. In the location of Eskilstuna on Saturday the races took place the track events (5.000m for wo...
26/08/2018 - Trujillo (PER): Mauricio Arteaga (ECU) wins the Ibero-American Championships
IN UPDATING There are nine athletes at the start. Juan Manuel Cano (ARG) and Yerko Araya (CHI) are first leaders with a few meters of advantage. The pace is around 4:13/4:15km. The two are then reached after about 12 minutes of ...
25/08/2018 - Gdansk (POL): Great result of Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene
The 53rd Race Walk Festival took place yesterday in Gdansk (POL). The international race took place on 10km for both men and women, while the events of the U23 and U20 Poland Championship took place on the distance of 20km. 10km women ...
25/08/2018 - Trujillo (PER): Sandra Arenas (COL) wins the Ibero-American Championships
Immediately in the lead the favorites with Sandra Arenas (COL) and Kimberly Garcia (PER) to share the task of making the pace. It soon becomes clear that for Julia Takacs (ESP) the fatigue of the 50km of the 2018 European Championships is not...
23/08/2018 - Week-end with Iberoamerican Championships in Trujillo (PER)
The Iberoamerican Athletics Championships will start tomorrow, August 24th, and will take place in Peru in Trujillo at the Chan Chan stadium. The two walking events will take place: - Saturday 25th August at 8.00: 10.000m track walk women - S...
21/08/2018 - Byrkjelo (NOR): Haukenes and Helgeim champions of Norway
In the past weekend the Norwegian Championships took place in Byrkjelo. The races were completely unusual for a national championship: 5.000m track walk for men and 3.000m track walk for women. Participation too, especially in the men&...
20/08/2018 - Open the entries to Around Taihu 2018
This year the classic race walk competition Around Taihu will take place over three days. Here is the program: Septermber 24: Taihu Station: 20 km (competition valid also as IAAF Challenge) - 9:15 Course: Taihu International Convention...
16/08/2018 - Sandro Damilano denies press reports about his future commitment as coach of Eleonora Giorgi
On August 13, one of the leading Italian newspapers published the following news in an article analyzing Italian performance at the recent European Athletics Championships: "... Eleonora Giorgi, which for years is walking with technical ...
13/08/2018 - Italy: the glass half empty and half full
It took the words of the Head Coach of the National Team of Italy, Elio Locatelli, a person we know very well who usually calls “a spade a spade” and not mince his words to make known to those who follow race walk in Italy the technical ...
12/08/2018 - Toronto (CAN): Evan Dunfee (CAN) and Maria Michta-Coffey (USA) NACAC champions
This weekend took place the North America Central America and Caribbean athletics championships. The two 20km walking races were held on a 2km track on Friday, August 10th in Toronto, Hainan's Point. 20km men There was no do...
12/08/2018 - Berlin 2018: The Spanish walk on the roof of Europe
We who we think to know quite well the race walk of our friends of Spain would not have bet 1 Euro on a result like that obtained in the two days of European Championships: two golds, one silver and one bronze. A historical result, which is o...
11/08/2018 - Berlin (GER): the day of Spain - Victories of Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez
The second day of race walk at the European Athletics Championships begins with the women's race over the distance of 20km. Covered sky with cooler temperature than 50km. But something goes wrong and there are special checks of the firefi...
10/08/2018 - Asaba (NIG): Gathimba in men and Beletew in women are the new African Champions in 20km walk
On Sunday 5 August the African Athletics Championships are also finished. The championship races were held on a road course next to the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba (NIG) and with the use of the Pit Lane rule. 20km men ...
08/08/2018 - Berlin 2018: the slowest 50km of the European Championships for a quarter of a century
The men's 50km of Berlin was, among the last European Championships, the slowest one. We have not recorded results so slow in the last 24 years of the Championships (seven editions). Maybe it was the heat (but who writes recalls the editi...
07/08/2018 - Berlin (GER): Maryan Zakalnytskyy (UKR) e Ines Henriques (POR) European champions in 50km
The first time the men and women together in the 50km in a European Championship has only one great opponent: the heat. More than the distance to go to scare are the high temperatures: the control units speak of 20.5°C at the start and th...
05/08/2018 - Eleonora Giorgi is in doubt for Berlin ? Nicole Colombi gives up.
A small article on one of the major Italian sports magazines revolutionizes the fight for medals in the 20km road walk women at the upcoming European Championships. Eleonora Giorgi (ITA), one of the favorites for the medals, suffers from a ba...
01/08/2018 - Baranquilla 2018 - Eider Arevalo (COL) in 20km and Jose Leyver Ojeda (MEX) in 50 km won the Centroamerican and Carebbean Games
This morning (Colombia time) were held in Baranquilla the two walking races (men only) of the Central American and Caribbean Games. 50km men They start in seven athletes for the 50km of the Central American and Caribbean Games of Baran...
31/07/2018 - The way to Berlin 2018: 50km men
We continue with the publication of the seasonal list of the athletes who obtained a performance under 4:00:00, in which we highlighted in red-italic the athletes of Russia who, as known, will not be able to participate in the Championships giv...
30/07/2018 - Also Igor Glavan suspended for anomalies in his biological passport
The male presence of Ukraine is complicated at the upcoming European Championships in Berlin. Just yesterday we had remembered, while we were presenting the 2018 list of 20 km European athletes with a performance below 1:24:00 that certainly ...
29/07/2018 - The way to Berlin 2018: 20km men
We continue with the publication of the seasonal list of the athletes who obtained a performance under 1:24:00, in which we highlighted in red-italic the athletes of Russia who, as known, will not be able to participate in the Championships giv...
28/07/2018 - The way to Berlin 2018: 20km and 50km women
The 2018 European Championships that will take place in Berlin are approaching. This for the athletes of Europe, after the IAAF World Team Championships that took place in Taicang in May, is the second of the most important goals of the seaso...
26/07/2018 - Lublin (POL): Polish title to Dawid Tomala and Paulina Buziak
On Friday 20th July, the 98th edition of the Polish Championships took place on the Lublin track. The walking events were the first two races of the athletics program and both took place on the morning of the first day. 10.000m ...
24/07/2018 - Sport and technology: towards a "new electronic eye" for race walk
In the wake of what is already doing the IAAF for the construction of an electronic sole for the control of the "loss of contact" are also moving other interesting studies. In Italy, the Olympic walker Teodorico Caporaso (rec...
23/07/2018 - Jyvaskyla (FIN): Veli-Matti Partanen and Elisa Neuvonen Finnish Champions
Last Thursday Jul. 19, 2018 in Jyvaskyla (FIN) took place the Finnish Athletics Championships which ended on Sunday 22. The two walking events were held in the afternoon of the first day with a scorching and unusual heat for the Finnish summe...
22/07/2018 - Caio Bonfim (BRA): Is official, 6 months banned (from 1.3.2018 to 1.9.2018)
Brazilian walker Caio de Sena Bonfim, bronze medalist at the World Championships in London 2017, has been banned for 6 months, from 1 March this year, due to a positive bumetanide substance, classified as a diuretic. It had left s...
22/07/2018 - Getafe (ESP): Alvaro Martin wins Spanish track championships
The second day of the Spanish Absolute Championships in Getafe also gave the public an intense race 10.000m men track walk It was also a very interesting race for the men who saw medals favorites Alvaro Martin (ESP), Miguel Ange...
21/07/2018 - Getafe (ESP): Raquel Gonzalez wins Spanish track championships
Underway in Getafe (ESP) the Spanish Athletics Championships with the marching races that take place on the classic distance of 10.000m run on the track. This morning at multi-sport stadium Juan de la Cierva the women's competit...
21/07/2018 - London (GBR): Bosworth at world record on 3.000m track walk, which had been resisting for 28 years
After 28 years Tom Bosworth (GBR) broke the best outdoor world performance over 3000 meters track walk, which was signed by Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) and which was established in San Giovanni Valdarno on May 19, 1990 in 10:47.11 and that now...
17/07/2018 - I love race walking because ...
The report by Steve Landells on Eider Arevalo, a humble and incredible athlete, had almost gone unnoticed on the IAAF website. We propose it to our readers because its history shows the importance of "role models" in the developing athlete...
14/07/2018 - Tampere (FIN): Alegna Gonzalez (MEX) and Zhang Yao (CHN) World Champions U20
Two breathtaking races were witnessed this morning at the U20 World Championships in Tampere (FIN). 10,000m women track walk In mid-race lap 22:41.39 sees a large group of 10 athletes, Rachelle de Orbeta (PUR), fol...
11/07/2018 - Soria (ESP) Diego Garcia and Lidia Sanchez-Puebla Spanish U23 champions
Weekend with the Spanish Championships U23 that took place in Soria (ESP) Saturday 7 July 2018. The two races were held on the distance of 10,000m on track. 10.000m men track walk Easy victory for Diego Garcia Carrera (ESP...
10/07/2018 - Albi (FRA): Gabriel Bordier and Clemence Beretta are the new French champions
It was the heat that dominated the Elite Championships in the Elite category that took place in Albi (FRA) on Friday 6 July 2018. The two races were covered on the distance of 5.000m track walk. 5.000m men's track walk ...
09/07/2018 - Leiria (POR): Joao Vieira and Ines Henriques Champions of Portugal
Week end of National Championships in Portugal in Leiria with the two running races on the first day. The tests took place on the 10,000m track walk. 10.000m men's track walk Victory to Joao Vieira (POR) who after walki...
08/07/2018 - Kitami (JPN): Re-written the world season list of 10.000m track walk men
At the municipal stadium of Kitami (JPN), today took place the second day of the "Hokuren Distance Challenge", an event that takes place over four stages and contemplates events of middle-distance, long-distance and race walk. ...
07/07/2018 - Temporary closure of activity
Following work that will be carried out in the telephone line by the telephone service provider, it will not be possible to use internet from Saturday 6 July 2018 to Thursday 19 July 2018. We inform our readers that in that period, unfortunat...
06/07/2018 - Gyor (HUN): Victory to Davide Finocchietti (ITA) in male event
The two Italians Davide Finocchietti and Aldo Andrei were the favorites, but we believe that not many would have accepted to bet on a victory and a silver from Italy. The last time that had happened were the 1998 European Championships in Bud...
05/07/2018 - Gyor (HUN): Victory of Hanna Zubkova (BLR) in female race
She could not celebrate in the better way her 17th birthday (it was yesterday, July 4th) Hanna Zubkova (BLR). The young Belarusian was the favorite of the U18 European Championships in Gyor (HUN) and was not denied. 5.000m track...
04/07/2018 - Barcelona (ESP): Catalunya Championships win by Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado and Raquel Gonzalez Campos
Catalonia (ESP), which has been much discussed in recent months, is a historic region for race walking in Spain. Catalonia has its own individual championships, so much so that those of 2018 have reached the 98th edition, and were held on Sun...
04/07/2018 - Abashiri (JPN): Men's great results in 5.000m track walk
At the municipal stadium of Abashiri, on the island of Hokkaido (JPN), today took place the first day of the "Hokuren Distance Challenge", an event that takes place over four stages and contemplates events of middle-distance, long-distance...
03/07/2018 - Chinfeng (CHN): good results in U20, U18 and 50km women
The competitions valid for the 2nd round of the Chinese Championship for Provincial Clubs in Chinfeng, in the province of Inner Mongolia, took place on Saturday and Sunday. High temperature and humidity for good performance (25 degrees and 75...
02/07/2018 - Yohann Diniz will not take part in the 2018 European Championships
It's official: Yohann Diniz will not take part in the 2018 European Championships in the 50km. These are his words on his Facebook profile Hello everyone, unfortunately, I will not be able to defend my European title that I ...
02/07/2018 - Gyor (HUN): European U18 Championships - Preview
On Thursday and Friday next in Gyor (HUN) the two European U18 Championship race walking events will take place on the 5,000m track walk for girls and 10,000m track walk for boys. Presenting these events is always a rather difficult un...
02/07/2018 - Vagos (POR): Paulo Martins and Maria Bernardo champions U20 of Portugal
Week end with the two walking events of the Portugal U20 Championships in Vagos (POR). 10.000m U20 men's track walk Victory to Paulo Martins (POR) with a time of 44:56.40 The young athlete from Portugal won the title ...
01/07/2018 - Cuenca (ECU): South American U18 Championships
This morning (Ecuador time) the two walking events of the U18 South American Championships in Cuenca (ECU) took place. 10,000m track walk U18 boys Victory to Oscar Oswaldo Patin Manobanda (ECU) with a time of 46:54.86 which...
30/06/2018 - Samorin (SVK): victories of Dawid Tomala (POL) and Maria Katerinka Czakova (SVK)
A beautiful walk evening that offered by the Pravda-Televizia-Slovnaft Meeting of Samorin, a suburb about twenty minutes by car from Bratislava that included two events on the 3.000m track walk in its Meeting (now at 53rd edition). 3.0...
29/06/2018 - Caceres (ESP): Still wins by Alvaro Martin and Lidia Sanchez-Puebla
They continue to compete, and above all continue to win, the bearers of the club of "Playa de Castellon" (ESP). On Wednesday 27th June, Alvaro Martin (ESP) and Lidia Sanchez-Puebla (ESP) won the 31st Meeting of the Diputacion de Cac...
29/06/2018 - Eider Arevalo (COL) and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) best athletes of june 2018
The choice of the athlete of month of June 2018 marks a turning point, as a watershed, in what according to Marcia dal Mondo should be the main choice of the result. The Russian Championships at Cheboksary brought to the fore the resul...
28/06/2018 - Rome (ITA): Marco De Luca honors the memory of Cristana Pellino in Trofeo Pellino
On Sunday, June 24th in the Nino Papacci park in the Grottarossa area (Rome), a youth competition took place with the participation to a 3.000m walk of Marco De Luca. In itself it would be one of the many news in the world of the Itali...
27/06/2018 - Leeds (GBR) - Tom Bosworth and Bethan Davies win British Championships
British race walking witnessed a historic day in Leeds as four athletes secured selection for the European Championships for the first time in 28 years. 20km men Tom Bosworth (GBR) win the Grand Prix titles and British titles, q...
26/06/2018 - Vagos (POR): Joao Bernardo and Catarina Santos win Portuguese U18 Championships
Week-end of championships also in Portugal, where in Vagos the Championships U18 on track were held with the two walking events over the distance of 5,000m on track that took place on Saturday 23rd June. 5.000m track walk...
25/06/2018 - Katerini (GRE): Olga Fiaska and Anthimos Kelepouris win Greek U18 Championships
Last weekend on 23-24 June in Katerini (500 km north of Athens), under the altar of Mount Olympus, the mountain of the twelve Gods of the ancient Greeks, the national championship U18 took place. The weather was perfect 21°C and clou...
24/06/2018 - Warsaw (POL): Victories of Richard Vargas (VEN) and Paulina Buziak (POL)
Saturday morning (starting at 7:45) at the Warsaw Academy of Physical Education (for the eleventh time in the history of the capital) the Polish race walk championships of 20km started with 12 men and 10 women registered. The test of men, how...
24/06/2018 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): victories of Lubomir Kubis and Alzbeta Ragasova in U18 Championships
Excellent results in boys events at the U18 Championships in Slovakia that are underway in Banska Bystrica (SVK). 5.000m U18 boys track walk Victory to Lubomir Kubis (SVK) in 20:59.46 who gets the new personal best (previ...
23/06/2018 - Gijon (ESP): Ana Pulgarin Cardeno and Pedro Conesa Ceron win Spanish U18 Championships
We continue the report of the intense weekend of race walk in Europe with the women's competitions of the Spanish U18 Championships, whose first day is being held in Gijon (ESP). Today was held 5.000m track walk U18 girls &n...
23/06/2018 - Murcia (ESP): Marina Pena Alonso and Jose Manuel Perez Rubio win the Spanish U20 Championships
We start the intense weekend of race walk in Europe with the women's competition of the Spanish U20 Championships whose first day is being held in Murcia (ESP). Today was held: 10.000m track walk U20 women We h...
23/06/2018 - Modena (ITA): Great performance of Valentina Trapletti and victory of Leonardo Dei Tos
Modena - Gold final The most important competition for the clubs is that of the gold final held in Modena. In the first lane the males start for their 10,000m race while the women compete in the 4th lane for their 5,000m race. &...
22/06/2018 - Des Moins (USA): Nick Christe ans Maria Michta-Coffey win USATF Championships
The USATF Outdoor Championships are being held in Des Moins (USA) at the Drake University stadium, which also include the 20,000m men's and women's race walking events. 20.000m men's track walk Undisputed victory of ...
21/06/2018 - Great result of Maria Perez in Castellon (ESP)
Last Saturday the Spanish Club Championship Finals were held in various cities of Spain. The most important final, that for the title, was held in two locations, in Soria (for males) and in Castellon (for females). In Spain the finals of the ...
20/06/2018 - Italian Clubs Championships this weekend
Intense weekend in Italy where the Clubs Track Championship Finals will take place with the walking events. The finals are as follows: - Gold final in Modena with 10,000m ytaco walk for men and 5,000m track walk for women - Silver final in Be...
19/06/2018 - Sumy (UKR): Oleksiy Kazanin and Mariya Filyuk win 20km Ukrainian Championships
Last race of past week, are the 20km Championships in Ukraine. The test took place in Sumy on the road circuit that had already hosted other events. A muggy heat was expected, but in the night a storm cooled the air and so at the start at 8:3...
19/06/2018 - Trikala (GRE): Georgios Tzatzimakis and Olga Fiaska win Greek U20 Championships
The U20 track championships took place this weekend in Greece The competitions were held in the city of Trikala, 300km north of Athens, in the tourist area of the Meteora Monasteries. The walking races were held on Sunday morning with a ver...
18/06/2018 - Bedford (ENG): Cameron Corbisley win on polemics
Sunday of walking championships also in England, at Bedford, where the U20 and U23 British Championships took place with the walking events. Not many athletes at the start, and among other things in the U23 women at the start there was...
17/06/2018 - Espoo (FIN): Veli-Matti Partanen (FIN) wins Finnish 30km road walk Championships
This morning the 30km Finnish Championships took place in Espoo. Only five athletes at the start. 30km road walk The race is in fact a solo of Veli-Matti Partanen who in the post race has defined this the best race of his career...
16/06/2018 - Rieti (ITA): Davide Finocchietti and Simona Bertini win U18 Championships
On the first day the event of walk is the last race scheduled. A correct decision being the coolest hour of the day. 10,000m track walk U18 boys Four are immediately to lead: Davide Finocchietti, Daniele Bre...
14/06/2018 - La Coruña “always beautiful and charming”
La Coruña is a port city located on the northwest coast of Galicia, in a picturesque position on a strip of land stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean. It has ten kilometers of promenade, a large beach at the foot of the city, a historic cen...
12/06/2018 - Rieti (ITA): Week end with the Italian U18 Championships
Next weekend in Rieti will be held the U18 Italian Championships on the track. The two scheduled walking events will take place at the following times: - 10.000m track walk U18 boys: Friday, June 15, 2018 at 20:30 - 5.000m track walk U18 girl...
11/06/2018 - Murcia (ESP): Victories of Miguel Angel Lopez and Amanda Cano
In this intense week of race walk an interesting Meeting in Spain was almost unnoticed: the Grand Prix de Atletismo "Ciudad de Murcia". As usual they could not miss in this meeting, organized by the Murcian Athletics Federation, who...
11/06/2018 - Huelva (ESP): Maria Perez establish the new Spanish record on 3.000m track walk
In this intense weekend a great result could not be missed even in the land of Spain. It was obtained in Huelva, on Friday 8 June, where I held the traditional Iberoamerican Meeting. 3.000m women's track walk Only four athle...
11/06/2018 - Simnas (LTU): Victories to Vasily Mizinov and Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene
This year the athletes who had gone to compete in Alythus also had the opportunity to try the next day on a short test on the distance of 5km. The Lithuanian organizers had in fact scheduled an International Meeting in Simnas, a small city wi...
10/06/2018 - Cheboksary (RUS) - Incredible results at Russian road walk Championship
Incredible results on the first day of the Russian March Championships in Cheboksary. 20km road walk women This race offered the local audience the most incredible result with the victory of Yelena Lashmanova (RUS) with a time o...
09/06/2018 - Jesolo (ITA): Stefano Chiesa and Lidia Sanchez Puebla win the 3rd edition of Mediterranean U23 Championships
Very hot day in Jesolo for the first day of the U23 Mediterranean Championships. 10,000m men's track walk Departure on the rhythm of 4:12/km with the favorite in the group: Gianluca Picchiottino (ITA), Stefano Chiesa (ITA), ...
08/06/2018 - Alythus (LTU): Victories of Christopher LInke and Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene
Great participation and interesting results at Alythus in Lithuania. 20km men Very fast start of Christopher Linke (GER) that passes to 5km in 20:30 together with Federico Tontodonati (ITA). The group of pursuers composed by Vas...
07/06/2018 - Gifu (JPN): Ma Li (CHN) and Gong Hao (CHN) win the U20 Asian Championships
Gifu, a city located just north of Nagoya in the hundred-south part of Japan, is hosting these days the U20 Asian Championships. 10,000m U20 women's track walk Seven athletes at the start. They are immediately in the ...
07/06/2018 - Jesolo (ITA) - U23 Mediterranean Championships
Saturday will be the third edition of the U23 Mediterranean Championships. We remember that the previous editions were held in Aubane (FRA) and Tunis (TUN). 10,000m men's track walk If we refer to the time of accreditation w...
06/06/2018 - Cochabamba (BOL): XI Juegos Suramericanos
Yesterday (in the European night) the three walking events of the XI Juegos Suramericanos de Atletismo underway in Cochabamba (BOL) took place yesterday. 20km women Victory to Kimberly Garcia Leon (PER) in 1:33:11 Second place t...
06/06/2018 - Utena (LTU): record for Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene
It was a Saturday to remember for the athletics of Lithuania, and in particular for the march of that country. 3.000m women's track walk Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene (LTU) took part in the Universitary Championships in Utena (...
03/06/2018 - Agropoli (ITA): Italian U20 e U23 Championships
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 ...
02/06/2018 - La Coruna (ESP): Great results of Qieyang Shenjie and Eider Arevalo
The Colombian Eider Arevalo and the Chinese Qieyang Shenjie win the respective 20km of the Spanish leg of the IAAF Challenge respectively in 1:19:14 and in 1:26:28. 20km women The race of women is the first to star...
29/05/2018 - Borský Mikuláš (SVK): victories of Rafal Fedaczynski (POL) and Maria Czaková (SVK)
It was a big weekend in Slovakia with the 50th Open 20km and U20 10km Roadwalk Championships contested on Saturday in Borský Mikuláš. On Sunday, the annual meeting in Hlohovec, where a series of evente on 5km were playe...
27/05/2018 - Faro (POR): great performance of Ana Cabecinha
Since female counterpart to results of Turin is today echo those obtained by Ana Cabecinha (POR) to Faro at the Algarve Regional Championship Absolute (POR). 5.000m track walk women Victory to Ana Cabecinha (POR) in 21:35.00 nea...
26/05/2018 - Race walking show in Turin
Race walking show in Turin on the occasion of the 2nd regional round of the Italian track championships. 5.000m track walk women It was foreseeable that with a parterre of three Chinese at the start the race could excite the aud...
25/05/2018 - IAAF Challenge: next stage La Coruna
The next important walking appointment is set in Europe and precisely in La Coruna where Saturday, June 2, 2018 will take place the XXXII edition of Cantones de la Coruna also this year named to Sergio Vazquez, the creator of the competition that si...
24/05/2018 - Hirooki Arai (JPN) and Liang Rui (CHN) best athletes of may 2018
For the selection of the best athletes of the month of May 2018 the races taken into consideration are only those of Taicang that have monopolized the high level of the month So many opportunities to make good results and in choosing the best...
23/05/2018 - Analysis of the results of the 20km and 50km men of Taicang 2018 and Continents weight
Today the recent results of male events in the Taicang World Team Championships were analysed Analysis of men events Results first 16 men ...
22/05/2018 - Analysis of the results of the 20km and 50km women of Taicang 2018
The recent results in the Taicang World Team Championships were analysed . Let's start with general statistical data and with the analysis of women's competitions. In the next days we will continue with the analysis of men and the overall on...
20/05/2018 - Brixen (ITA): Simona Bertini and Davide Finocchietti win the 36th Brixia Meeting
Today the 36th Brixia Meeting took place in Bressanone with two races on the distance of 5,000m track walk The races of the categories of the years 2001 and lower were open, as per the Brixia Meeting regulations, also to the foreign selection...
19/05/2018 - Isernia (ITA): Francesco Fortunato and Martina Ansaldi are the winners of University Championships
Yesterday Saturday, May 19, 2018 the two walkin events of the National Athletics University Championships in Athletics were held in Isernia. The two tests took place on the distance of 5,000m track walk. 5.000m track walk...
15/05/2018 - Claire Tallent (AUS): my 50km in favor of all the women who walk
From n. 33 of "Heel and Toe" (newsletter by Tim Erickson, AUS) I felt like my entire life had been leading up to Saturday 5 May 2018. For so many reasons. I have always felt that women’s sport is hard. As a young...
14/05/2018 - Chen Ding (CHN): from Olympic champion to race walking judge
When, on 4 August 2012, the almost twentieth-year old Chen Ding (CHN) began to greet the public by walking around the Victoria Memorial and starting to enter in the Mall straight for the last time, he still had three race waling judges in the ...
10/05/2018 - 22nd "Podmoskovye" walk festival: Victories of Alexey Golovin and of Zhanna Zholobova
On May 6th, a stage of the National Grand Prix of Russia was organized by the Irida Sport Club, at Podolsk in Mis in the Moscow region. Here is a brief report by Sergey Nochevnyy, representative of the athletes. The strongest walkers traditio...
09/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN): Athletes sequences (by Li Houlin - Professor biomechanics Beijing)
We inform our readers that in the Techniques Rules and Conventions section, sub-section Publications and reports on race walking, a series of interesting sequences of frames taken at slow motion have been published by a certain number of athletes ta...
08/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN): Red Cards and Pit Lane Rule
It is worthwhile to go into a brief statistical analysis on the technical decisions expressed by the jury at Taicang 2018. We would like to remember that, compared to the past, this year there were two news: - the women's 50km race, not p...
07/05/2018 - Massimo Stano: in ten months from the disqualification to the bronze
First-act play Trieste, July 1, 2017 at 9:57am, on the newly inaugurated track two days before the old Grezar Stadium athletics facility, a red paddle stands up in front of the athlete who was leading the track race of the Italian Athletics C...
07/05/2018 - Tomohiro Noda (JPN) and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) best athletes of april 2018
Only now we offer our readers the usual monthly review of the best athletes taking into consideration the following competitions of the month of April: 7.4.2018: Rio Maior (POR) - IAAF Challenge 14.4.2018: Wajima (JPN): 50km Japan Championships 14.4...
07/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN): Vittorie of Zhang Jun and Lu Xiuzhi in Chinese Grand Prix
Continue the competitions in Taicang (CHN). Between today and tomorrow, the races of the third round of the China Race Walk Grand Prix will take place. Today's morning begins with good weather conditions, in fact we are in the presence of...
06/05/2018 - Taicang (CH): Victories of Alegna Gonzalez (U20 women) and Koki Ikeda (20km uomini)
The second day start with the 10km U20 women They start in 42 A small group led by Alegna Gonzalez (MEX) and Glenda Morejon (ECU) in the lead. The others: Nanako Fujii (JPN), Li Wenxiu (CHN), Ma Li (CHN), Meryem Bekmez (TUR)...
05/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN): Hirooki Arai and Rui Liang (NWR) win 50km
Rainy day with an initial temperature of 22°C. with a splendid glance at the departure of men and women. 50km men They pass the first lap of two km in 9:20 and immediately in the lead are five: Hirooki Arai, Kay Kobayashi, Satoshi ...
05/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN): Victories of Zhang Yao (U20) and Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (20km women)
The day continue with the 10km U20 men Immediately in the lead is Zhang Yao (CHN) and the Japanese couple composed of Hiroto Jusho and Sho Sakazaki. On the first lap the group is compact leaded by Hiroto Jusho in 8...
04/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - ANA status of five race walkers revoked
Breaking news (dal sito web della IAAF) The Russian Athletics Federation has been notified that the IAAF Doping Review Board has decided to revoke the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) status granted to five race walkers: Klavdiy...
03/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Preview of 20km
From the website of IAAF below the preview of both 20km. 20km men Many top athletes have represented Japan at previous editions of the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships, but the only hardware they have ever won in a senior eve...
03/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Preview of 10km U20
From the website of IAAF below the preview of both 10km U20. 10km U20 men Japan may have the three fastest U20 race walkers in the world this year, but the teenage trio will be making their major championships debut at the IAAF World R...
03/05/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Preview of 50km
From the website of IAAF below the preview of both 50km. 50km men In the absence of defending champion Jared Tallent, world champion Yohann Diniz and Olympic champion Matej Toth, the men’s 50km at the IAAF World Race Walking Team...
02/05/2018 - Voronovo (RUS) - 2 miles of Voronovo Cup
In recent years it has not happened very often to see organized a race on the distance of 2 miles. It happened today in Voronovo (RUS) city about a hundred kilometers west of Moscow. In the organization involved a representative of the athlet...
01/05/2018 - Bristonas (LTU) - 32nd Meeting Mikenas
Saturday, April 28, 2018 Lithuania opened the road race season with the traditional tribute to the only Olympic medalist walker Antanas Mikėnas (silver in the 20 km of Melbourne 1956) organizing in Bristonas the 32nd edition of the Memorial and disp...
01/05/2018 - Reims (FRA) - Great 5.000m of Yohann Diniz
The return to the races of Yohann Diniz which took place on Saturday Apr. 29, 2018 at the Challenge Cora Ville de Reims has immediately left the mark of how much in the forties Frenchman intends to show the next European Championships in Berlin 2018...
30/04/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Preview of female team competitions
Let's see now the women's teams we believe are favored in each events, which this year will take place with the new Pit Lane Rule. 50km women Imagining the result of a team competition just at the third edition of the 50...
29/04/2018 - RUSASA - Investigation of potential anti-doping rules violations
We report a news that appeared yesterday April 28 on the RUSADA website The team of the Department of Investigations of Anti-Doping Rules Violations, together with two Doping Control officers traveled to the town of Karak...
28/04/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Ruslan Dmytrenko waives
In the 2014 edition Ruslan Dmytrenko (UKR) had won in Taicang the World Cup of Race Walk on the distance of 20km. This year the Ukrainian athlete decided at the last moment not to compete. The decision of the athlete who also appeared i...
28/04/2018 - Taicang (CHN) - Preview of male team competitions
Next weekend will be held in Taicang (CHN) the second edition of the World Race Walking Team Championship that was born in 1961 as the Lugano Trophy and that until the 2014 edition of Taicang took the name of the World Cup. Let's no...
27/04/2018 - Taicang 2018 - Ecuador Team
The selection of Ecuador that will compete in Taicang (CHN) will be composed of the following athletes: 50km men Athlete YoB Personal best ...
25/04/2018 - Bekescsaba (HUN): Mate Helebrandt e Barbara Kovacs are the winners of Hungarian Championships in 20km
On Sunday 22nd April the Hungarian Championships of 20km were held in Bekescsaba (HUN), with a series of otterrai events for the youth sector and an unusual 15km for the U20 20km men Victory to Máté Helebrandt (HUN...
24/04/2018 - Kocevje (SLO): First U23 and U20 Slovenian Championships
Yesterday took place in Kočevje the first edition of the Slovenian Championship of 10,000m track walk for the U20 and U23 categories. Being race walk in Slovenia at the beginning, the participation could not be numerous, since the race was no...
23/04/2018 - Jaen (ESP): Maria Perez and Diego Garcia University Champions of Spain
Weekend with the National University Championships in Spain in Jaen, Andalusia. Participation of many stars of the Spanish march, both men and women and good results. 5.000m women tracl walk Eleven athletes at the start and imme...
23/04/2018 - Track races of Italian Club Championships: great performances of Gianluca Picchiottino and Davide Finocchietti
The third leg of the Clubs race walk Championship was held in three locations: Mariano Comense hosted athletes from Northern Italy, Livorno from Central Italy, and finally Acquaviva delle Fonti those of Southern Italy. The races were entirely dedica...
22/04/2018 - Monthey (SUI): New Slovak record of Maria Czakova on 10.000m track walk
There were not so many athletes at the Monthey Grand Prix in Switzerland for the track race, but Maria Czakova (SVK) got a good result. 10,000m women track walk At the head from the start the Slovakia athlete who last &nb...
21/04/2018 - Taicang 2018 - Provisional entry lists (Apr. 20, 2018)
With two weeks to go until the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018, the provisional entry lists have been published. Including reserves, 386 athletes from 49 teams have been entered for what is set to be the biggest ever g...
20/04/2018 - Taicang 2018 - Mexican Team
Defending 20km race walk champion Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez leads Mexico’s team for the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018 on 5-6 May. The 29-year-old made her global championships debut at the 2014 edition of this event, a...
20/04/2018 - Stage of the Italian team in Tokorozawa (JPN)
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are closer than we think. So, with the occasion of the World race walk Team Championships in China, in Taicang, we were given the opportunity to perform the last weeks of preparation for the event in the city of Tokorozawa, a...
19/04/2018 - Milano (ITA): Eleonora Anna Giorgi and Alberto Zaupa vin 5.000m track walk at Walk & Middle Distance Night
Interesting competitive test on the short distance of 5,000m track walk by Eleonora Anna Giorgi yesterday afternoon at the XXV Aprile track in Milan, on the occasion of the Walk & Middle Distance Night. 5.000m women track walk &nbs...
18/04/2018 - Lomello (ITA) - 49th edition: 5th leg - victories of Lu Xiuzhi (CHN) and Cai Zelin (CHN)
The 5th leg of the Frigerio Trophy (49th edition) took place on Sunday, April 15th. The competition has made a stop in Lomello (ITA) historic stronghold of the Italian race walk. At the start in the various competitions, a hundred athletes co...
18/04/2018 - IAAF Race Walking Committee Stakeholder Syrvey
We asked Tim Berrett for a statistical advance on the recent race walk survey. He kindly and promptly sent us the following reply, which we thank him for. At this time, and with the permission of the other IAAF Race Walking Committee m...
17/04/2018 - Naumburg (GER): Victories of Christopher Like and Emilia Lehmeyer
The German Open 20km championships were contested last Saturday as part of the International Racewalk Meet at Naumburg. A large number of athletes at the start also considering that in the Open Championships also participated in the Master cat...
16/04/2018 - Russian walkers authorized neutral athletes and athletes who have been denied authorization
Up to now there are thirty athletes for whom, while maintaining the suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAthletics), the IAAF has granted permission to compete in international competition in 2018 as "neutral". In addi...
15/04/2018 - Zrenjanin (SRB): Balkan race walk Championships 2018
A record number of 9 countries took part in the 17th edition of the Balkan Race Walking Championships in Serbian city of Zrenjanin (which has hosted the Balkan Cross Country Championships in 2013 as well). There were 71 athletes in total, 36 w...
15/04/2018 - Wajima (JPN): Second day of 102nd 50km Japan Championships
Second day dedicated to the 50km that unfortunately leaves in the rain. 50km men At 10km Takayuki Tanii (JPN) is leading in 44:25 (first 5km in 22:15 and second 5km in 22:10) The following is Tomohiro Noda (JPN) in...
14/04/2018 - Wajima (JPN): First day of 102nd 50km Japan Championships
The first day races in Wajima took place on Saturday afternoon on a fresh day with a variable temperature 10km Senior Men Forty-one men at the start, a sign of a very interesting movement. Quickly the 5km pa...
13/04/2018 - Wajima (JPN): the 102nd edition of the Japan Championshos of 50km
On Sunday at Wajima (JPN) there will be the 102nd edition of the 50km Japanese Championships which this year will be valid as a selection tournament for the Asian Games to be held in Jakarta (INA). Although this year the most important names ...
11/04/2018 - Patrizio Parcesepe - Degree in Sport and Motor Science - Management and Organization of High-level Sport
A little less than a month away from the interview we made to Patrizio Parcesepe who in three weeks had won three Italian titles with three of his athletes, this weekend will be another of those that the Fiamme Gialle coach will remember with much p...
10/04/2018 - Taicang 2018 - Italy Team
The Italian team that will participate in the Team World Championships in Taicang has been announced. Men 20 km Marco DE LUCA G.A. Fiamme Gialle Francesco ...
09/04/2018 - Podebrady (CZE): Victories of Christopher Like and Eleonora Anna Giorgi
Last Saturday saw the 86th edition of the well-known Racewalking Grand Prix in Podebrady, in the Czech Republic. It was classed as a European Athletics Assocation permit meet and incorporated 20km national championships for a number of countrie...
08/04/2018 - Gold Coast (AUS): Commonwealth Games
The XXI Commonwealth Games 20km roadwalks were held on Sunday morning on a 1km course alongside the Carrumbin beachfront in the southern Gold Coast area. Crowds numbering in the thousands lined the course, with vocal support for the vario...
07/04/2018 - Rio Maior (POR): Victories of Diego Garcia and Qieyang Shenjie
As usual excellent the organization local here in Rio Maior, this year grappling for the first time with the new rule on penalty. Who knows the course of Rio Maior certainly know also that not is state very easy to fit little before of the posting b...
03/04/2018 - Next Saturday at home of Ines Henriques, Susana Feitor and Jorge Miguel
We were there Saturday Apr. 1, 2017 when Ines Henriques stubbornly prepared to carry out, perhaps with a victory, her 100th 20km. That day on the course there was nobody who did not support for her, including opponents: this is the respect th...
02/04/2018 - Rio Maior (POR) - Male stars in the edition 2018
Less than a week to the "27th Grand Prix International de Rio Maior em Marcha" which will take place on Saturday on the classic 1km circuit between Avenida Joao Ferreira da Maia, Praça da Repubblica, and Avenida Dr. Joao A. Calado d...
31/03/2018 - Olomuc (CZE): Vctories of Dawid Tomala and Anezka Drahotova
Friday, March 30, 2018 Olomuc (CZE) hosted the 52nd edition of the Olomuc international race walk. The races were held on the distance of 10km and saw an intense participation at both the men's and women's levels. Even the youth competitions...
30/03/2018 - Queensland International Track Classic: victories of Dane Bird-Smith and Beki Smith
On Wednesday, March 28th, at the Queensland Sport & Athletics Center in Brisbane, AUS, a mixed race race on the distance of 3,000 track walk took place. The test took place during the "Queensland International Track Classic" Meeting. &...
29/03/2018 - Rio Maior (POR) - Women's stars in the 2018 edition
Saturday, April 7, 2018 in Rio Maior (POR) will host the 27th edition of the "Grande Premio Internazionale de Rio Maior em Marcha" that this year will also cut the finish line of the 16th edition of the IAAF Race Walk Challenge. &nb...
28/03/2018 - San Jose (CRC): XI Centro-American race walk Championships
In the web-end of Dudince, the Central American race walking championship was held in Costa Rica. The events covered all the categories from U14 to senior.. 20km men In was the most important event with six athletes at the start...
27/03/2018 - Japan Team to Taicang
Japan has published the list of athletes who will participate in the IAAF World Race Walk Team Championships in Taicang. 50km men Athlete YoB Personal best ...
26/03/2018 - Matej Toth (SVK) and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) best athletes of march 2018
With the end of indoor activity, the month of March has reserved a series of national and international championships which we summarize below: 3.3.2018: Huangshan (CHN) - Grand Prix 10.3.2018: Sucua (ECU) - South American race walking champi...
25/03/2018 - Dudince (SVK): One day of Pit Lane between stopwatches, blankets, sun and wind
Friday evening in front of an excellent mug of beer, our friend Silvia Hanusova who collaborates with the organization of the 37th edition of Dudinska Patdesiatka confessed that for them the next day would be the first experience with the Per Lane R...
24/03/2018 - Dudince (SVK): Victories to Toth and Czakova (50km), Arevalo and Arenas (20km)
Sunny morning in Dudince, although the temperature was quite low and an annoying wind, especially in the afternoon, accompanied the whole day. Let's just say that the participation was not that perhaps expected, with a number of internati...
21/03/2018 - Spanish race walking team to Taicang
Spanish Federation published the list of the athletes who will participate to next IAAF Race Walk World Team Championships in Taicang. 50km men Athlete YoB Season best ...
19/03/2018 - Merignac (FRA): Victories of Emilie Menuet, Gabriel Bordier and Florian Mayer
The French Race Walk Championships took place today in Merignac (FRA), a charming city near Bordeaux. The program was the 20 km and 50 km reserved for both men and women. In addition for both categories there was a 35km race. Mass participati...
18/03/2018 - Nomi (JPN): Asian 20km Championships
Begins in the morning of Japan, in Nomi, the day of the three Championships of the 20km road race walk: those of Asia, Spain and France. A beautiful sunny day on the 2km circuit of the Japanese city. Asian 20km Championships men...
18/03/2018 - Castellon (ESP): Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez win the 20km race walk
Day with variable sky in Castellon (ESP) for the Spanish Championships of 20km of race walk. 20km men A group is immediately formed with all the best and candidates for the victory. At 5km there are six in the lead...
17/03/2018 - Merignac (FRA): Sunday the 20km French Championships
Also on Sunday will be held in Merignac (FRA) the French Championships of 20km and 50 km of road walk Entry list 20km men There are 33 entries, including six foreign athletes: Khaled Othmani (TUN), Zinnedine Haloua...
16/03/2018 - Castellon (ESP): Sunday the 20km Spanish Championships
Sunday will be held in Castellon (ESP) the Spanish Championships of 20km road walk List of entries 20km men Among the entered athletes stand out the name of Alvero Martin (ESP), Luis Alberto Amezcua (ESP) ...
14/03/2018 - Nomi (JPN): Sunday the Asian 20km Championships
Sunday, March 18, 2018 will take place in Nomi (JPN) the 42nd Asian Race Walk Championships of 20km. The annual competition will see the representatives of eleven Countries (men) and 8 Countries (women) in the classic distance. On the ...
13/03/2018 - Race Walking Committee Survey: preliminary information
Here is some preliminary information from the survey (as of yesterday, March 12). These figures and percentages are subject to change once all responses are verified and collated. Total number of survey responses: 1,357 Total number by...
12/03/2018 - Lutsk (UKR): Ukrainian Winter Race Walk Championships
Last weekend, the Ukrainian Winter Race Walk Championships (also U23) were held in Lutsk (UKR) with more races for U20, U18 and U16. The races of the most important category were on the distances of 35km and 20km 20...
11/03/2018 - Megara (GRE): 20km Greek Championships
On Sunday March 11, 2018 they also took place in Megara (GRE) about fifty kilometers west of Athens in the National Championships of Greece of 20km open to seniors and U23. The championships were also valid as a selection for the Greek team f...
11/03/2018 - Lugano (SUI): Victories of Eleonora Anna Giorgi and Kouki Ikeda (JPN)
The long lake of Lugano is always very beautiful to see, but on a rainy morning and with a temperature around 7°C the beauty of the scenery leaves room for some recrimination. 20km women We start with the women whose departu...
10/03/2018 - Sucua (ECU): South America Race Walking Championships 2018
Sucua (ECU) hosted the 21st South American Race Walking Championships yesterday. Contested for the first time in the history of the championships, the women’s 50km was held alongside the men’s race 50km women Vi...
09/03/2018 - Lugano (SUI): Sunday the 15th Memorial Mario Albisetti
The long lake of Lugano will again be the theater of the 15th edition of the memorial Mario Albisetti, with a good number of athletes both in the men's and women's categories. 20km men At the moment there are 25 athletes...
07/03/2018 - Interview with Patrizio Parcesepe, the coach of the moment in Italy
Patrizio Parcesepe is the coach of the moment in Italy. Between February 17 and March 4, 2018 three of his athletes won the Italian Champion title in indoor races and in the Italian Championship of 20km on road. We heard it in this pleasant intervie...
06/03/2018 - Inaki Gomez (CAN) elected Chairman of IAAF Athletes' Commission
Iñaki Gomez (CAN) was elected Chair of the Athletes' Commission by Commission members and confirmed by Council today. Gomez, who succeeds Rozle Prezelj, represented Canada at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow where he finished eighth...
05/03/2018 - Roma (ITA): Massimo Stano (1:21:02) and Valentina Trapletti (1:32:15) Italian Champions in 20km
Rome, on the course of the World Race Walk Team Championships, 2016 hosted the Italian Championships of 20km road walk. Touching moment before the start to remember the recent death of Cristiana Pellino, past walker of the Italian national te...
04/03/2018 - Huangshan (CHN): Victories to Han Jijiang and Liang Rui in 35km
Second day of races in Huangshan (CHN) for Chinese Grand Prix. The men and women raced on a 35km (as often happens in Europe), while only a few athletes (men) participate in the classic 50km while the U20 have competed on 30km. ...
03/03/2018 - Huangshan (CHN): Victories to Wang Kaihua and Qieyang Shenjie
Huangshan (CHN) hosts the races of the first day of the China Grand Prix. The tests are also valid as a selection for the World Race Walk Team Championships in Taicang in the month of May. In the Chinese morning of the two 20km (men and women...
03/03/2018 - Pombal (POR) - Miguel Rodrigues and Edna Barros U23 champions of Portugal
Pombal (POR), once again hosted the Indoor U23 National Championships of Portugal. 5.000m indoor men Victory to Miguel Rodrigues (POR) in 20:47.05 representing the new personal best of the athlete (previous of 20:49.85 alwa...
03/03/2018 - Nantes (FRA): Victories to David Kuster (FRA) and Julia Richter (GER)
Today in Nantes (FRA) the classic indoor U20 meeting took place with the two walking events on the distance of 5,000m men and 3,000m women. 5.000m men A double victory to France as was foreseeable. David Kuster (FRA) born ...
02/03/2018 - Nantes (FRA): International Match U20 indoor FRA-GER-ITA
Tomorrow in Nantes (FRA) will take place the now classic indoor U20 meeting with the two walking events on the distance of 5.000m men and 3.000m women. 5.000m men France ranks between the two athletes what, in the opinion ...
01/03/2018 - Stanislav Emelyanos (RUS): life ban starting 15.12.2017
Stanislav Emelyanov has been banned for life starting 15.12.2017. This was announced in the February 2018 issue of the IAAF Newletter. Emelyanov was found years ago not to comply with the biological passport (IAAF Rule 32.2.b) and susp...
28/02/2018 - Rome (ITA): Sunday the 20k Italian race Walk Championships
The polar temperatures and snow of Rome (and of central-southern Italy) these days should turn into rain in the coming days. With a Saturday in which in the afternoon they are expected around 10mm of rain and a variable temperature between 6°C a...
27/02/2018 - Eiki Takahashi (JPN) and Maria Guadalupe Sanchez (MEX) best athletes of february 2018
Usually the month of February is a month in which the indoor activity is the boos of the show, and even so it was in 2018. This year, however, the road activity has had its peaks of interest during the month of February. After the taste of th...
26/02/2018 - Halle (GER): Indoor U20 Championships of Germany
Yesterday the Indoor U20 Championships took place in Halle (GER). 5.000m indoor U20 men Victory to Johannes Frenzl (GER) in 22:32.22 Second place to Jan Stramka (GER) in 23:03.21 Third place to Otto Junghannss (GER) in 23:5...
26/02/2018 - Koji Hoga Miura (JPN): the proceedings of some interesting conferences
The section "Techniques, Rules and Conventions", sub-section "Conventions" has recently been enriched by the proceedings of some seminars dating back to 2009 which unfortunately we had missed in the past. Thanks to ...
25/02/2018 - Monterrey (MEX) - Andres Choco (ECU) wins 50km (3:50:27)
The second day of races in Monterrey (MEX) provided only the 50km open, as known, both to men and women. 50km men We must immediately say that it was a solo by Andres Choco (ECU). The Ecuadorian athlete who boasts a perso...
25/02/2018 - Glasgow (GBR): Bosworth wins 3.000m indoor in 10:30.28
In the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow, the indoor event over the 3,000m distance reserved for men has just ended. The victory went to Tom Bosworth (GBR) who established the new best world performance on the distance with the time of 10:3...
25/02/2018 - Burjassot (ESP): the 50km to Marc Tur and Julia Takacs (with new Spanish record)
The first 50km of today Sunday 25 February 2918, takes place in Burjassot (ESP), as a consequence of the time zone (the other will be a few hours later in Monterrey, MEX). 50km men After 15km, Luis Alberto Amezcua (ESP) takes the lead ...
24/02/2018 - Monterrey (MEX) - Lebogang Shange and Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez are the winners of 20km
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....
24/02/2018 - From Erin Taylor-Talcott to Ainoha Pinedo and Julia Takacs, via Marina Horrnecke-Gil and Maria Dolores Marcos
The fact that we now have, 50 km women’s race walk at all competitive levels, has to do largely by the demands of Erin Taylor-Talcott. The US managed to be incorporated 50 km walk at the USATF Championships (US Championships) in 2012. In...
24/02/2018 - Antalya (TUR): Victores of Mert Atli and Semiha Ozdemir in Turkish Championships
Today, Antalya hosted the Turkish U20, U18 and U16 championships on a sunny day. 20km uomini Victory to Mert Atli (TUR) in 1:27:13 Second place to Serkan Dogan (TUR) in 1:27:47 Third place to Sahin Senod...
24/02/2018 - Minks (BLR): Mikita Kaliada (BLR) and Meryem Bekmez (TUR) are the winner of the international match
Yesterday 24 February during the first day of the U20 indoor match between Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Spain and Belarus took place in Minsk (BLR) the two running races on the classic distance of 5.000m indoor both for m...
23/02/2018 - Torun (POL): Dawid Tomala and Katarzyna Zdzieblo won Polish Indoor Championships
Domenica 18 febbraio, nella splendida Palaindoor di Torun (POL), i campionati di atletica leggera indoor in Polonia si sono svolte con i due eventi che camminano sulla solite distanze coperte 3,000m per le donne e 5000 metri al coperto per gli uomin...
23/02/2018 - Cristiana Pellino passed away at the age of 47
The race walk world in Italy, today is shaken by another sad news. The former Italian national walker Cristiana Pellino passed away today at the age of 47 (she was born on Sep. 21, 1970). Cristiana Pellino had started competing at a young age...
22/02/2018 - Sochi (RUS): Winter Race Walk Championships
In the past weekend, the usual Russian Winter Championships were also held in Sochi (RUS). 20km women The race took place at 13:30 with a temperature around 7° C. 31 athletes participated. Obviously as always happens ...
22/02/2018 - Monterrey (MEX): Saturday and Sunday the races of IAAF Challenge
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February at the Fundidora Park in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, the second leg of the IAAF Challenge will take place. For Mexico this event is also valid as a selection for the Games of Central America and the Caribbean...
21/02/2018 - IAAF Race Walking Committee Stakeholder Syrvey
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is conducting a strategic review of all events and disciplines in Athletics. As part of its mandate, to provide input to the IAAF on all matters related to Race Walking, the IAAF Race Wal...
20/02/2018 - Nairobi (KEN): Samuel Gathimba wins Kenian Trials in 1:19:04
Week end of race walk also in Kenya where the Commonwealth Games Trials took place on Saturday 17 February. 20km men A 20km that ends with a minimum gap on arrival with the two athletes divided by only 2 seconds and with an exce...
19/02/2018 - Birmingham (GBR): Tom Bosworth obtains the world best performance on 5.000m walk indoor (18:28.70)
Weekend of Indoor Championships also for Great Britain. Walking races took place on Saturday 17 February 2017. 5.000m indoor men Again a victory with the new record of Great Britain for Tom Bosworth (GBR). He ended the race...
19/02/2018 - Pitalito (COL): Victories of Omar Sierra, Jose Montana and Sandra Lorena Arenas at Colombian Championships
Pitalito (COL) hosted the National Championship of Colombia of rave walk on Sunday, February 18, 2018. The races scheduled were as follows: - an uncommon 40km men that took place in the morning starting at 6:00 - the 20km of women that took p...
18/02/2018 - Nuova Delhi (IND): second day - Soumya B (women) and Irfan KT (men) win 20km
On the second day of the India Race Walk Championships, the two 20km road walk in Vinay Marg were held next to the Nerhu Park and there are two of the most beautiful Hindu temples (that of Bahirav Batuk and that of Prachin Shakti Peeth) ...
18/02/2018 - Lievin (FRA): Victories to Erick Barrondo and Mirna Ortiz - French Champions: David Kuster and Marine Quennehen
The two walking events of the indoor 2018 French Championships took place this afternoon 5.000m indoor men As usual in France the Championships are open and this test is also attended by two very well-known names from the...
18/02/2018 - Kobe (JPN): great result of Eiki Takahashi (1:17:26)
The 20km Road Racing Championships in Kobe took place in the morning in Japan. Fresh but sunny day. 20km men Immediately go to lead the race the group of three favorites: Eiki Takahashi, Toshikazu Yamanishi ...
18/02/2018 - Klaipeda (LTU): Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene and Marius Ziukas indoor champions of Lithuania
Klaipeda (LTU) hosted the Lithuanian Indoor Championships this weekend. the two walking races on the classic 3,000m distances for women and 5.000m for men took place on Saturday Feb. 17, 2018. 3.000m indoor women After re...
17/02/2018 - New Delhi (IND): first day - Sandeep Kumar wins 50km
In the Indian morning the fifth edition of India's National Road Race Championships began. On the course near the Jawahardal Nerhu Stadium in New Delhi, today's events were those of: - 10 km U20 men: with 62 men entered - 10 km U20 wo...
17/02/2018 - Ancona (ITA): Italian Championships - Victories of Antonella Palmisano (11:53.30) and Francesco Fortunato (18:55.26)
The first day of the Indoor Absolute Italian Championships is also dedicated to walking events. Already during the presentation of these Championships we have had the opportunity to underline that at least for 45% these Championships a...
16/02/2018 - New Delhi (IND): 5th National Open Race Walk Championships
Tomorrow Saturday 17 February and Sunday 18 February will be held in New Delhi, the 5th National Championships of India. The scheduled races are: - 50km men that will take place Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 20km men that will take place on S...
15/02/2018 - Guatemala City (GUA): Guatemala national Championships
The National Race Walk Championships of Guatemala took place on Saturday 10 February 2018 in Guatemala City. The most representative athlete (Erick Barrondo) who is training in Europe, under the guidance of Francicsco Fernandez, along with hi...
14/02/2018 - Ancona (ITA) - Fatima Lotfi, the new name competing at Italian Indoor Championships
On Saturday 17 February, the two walking events of the Indoor Absolute Italian Championships 2018 will take place on the Ancona palaindoor track. The competitions will take place in the afternoon with the following times: - 3.30pm: 3.0...
14/02/2018 - Kobe (JPN): 20km Japan Race Walk Championships preview
As already announced the next weekend will be the turn of the 20km Japanese Championships in Kobe. As usual, the Kobe event offers the public a perfect organization, but also excellent results. We believe that this year it will be like this. ...
13/02/2018 - Erfurt (GER): Christopher Linke wins 3.000m indoor walk in 10:49.33
Last Saturday, those who were on the stands of the indoor arena in Erfurth (GER) were delighted by a wonderful race on the unusual distance of the 3,000m men's indoor. Five athletes were the protagonists, but two were the stars who fought...
12/02/2018 - From the top hat of Adelaide (AUS) comes the name of Marius Ziukas (LTU)
As expected, the Oceania Race Walk Championships in Adelaide, Australia (also valid for the IAAF Challenge) have radically changed the world ranking in the 20km season. At the men's level in the first 10 positions at the moment we find 8 ...
11/02/2018 - Neo Faliro (GRE): Tsinopoulou Panagiota and Papamichail Alexader are the new Indoor Champions of Greece
On the 1st day of the Greek Indoor championship, took place the race walking events, on the usual distances of 3.000m for women and 5.000m for men. During the first day of ...
11/02/2018 - Adelaide (AUS): Victories of Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) and Beki Smith (AUS)
The Australian Summer Open and U20 Roadwalk Championships were held in the North Adelaide Gardens in inner Adelaide on Sunday morning, the fourth year in a row that this venue has hosted this meet. The meet also saw the Oceania Open 20km and...
10/02/2018 - Pombal (POR) - The winners of Portuguese Indoor Championships are Joao Vieira and Ana Cabecinha
The races of the first day of the Indoor Championships of Portugal are under way with the running races. 5.000m indoor men Victory to Joao Vieira (POR) in his umpteenth title (18th) with the time of 19: 33.41 Secon...
10/02/2018 - Ancona (ITA) - Italian U18 Indoor Championships
Italian U18 Championships today in Ancona. 3.000m indoor U18 Girls Departure on the basis of 3: 45/km. Four athletes are leading the 600m covered in 2:51 and are Simona Bertini, Ida Mastrangelo, Sara Buglisi and Martina ...
08/02/2018 - 111th Millrose Games (USA): Victories of Nick Christie and Maria Michta-Coffey
The Millrose Games of New Your (USA) are a beautiful indoor event aimed in particular to young athletes, but also with senior high-level competitions, all sponsored, all derived from a great athlete of the past. The event takes place over sev...
06/02/2018 - Adelaide (AUS): Preview and entry list
Sunday 11.2.2018 along the War memorial Drive of Adelaide, South Australia, will take place the 20km Australian Championships, also matched to the 20km Championships of Oceania. The weather forecast indicates a variable temperature between 19° e...
06/02/2018 - Lyon (FRA): French Indoor Championships with good results of Gabriel Bordier and Eloise Terrec
Also in France this weekend the Indoor Championships took place for the U23 and U20 categories, with the addition, compared to those carried out in Italy, of the U18. All the competitions were held in the Lyon sports hall, a very beautiful fa...
05/02/2018 - Kobe (JPN) will still host the Japanese 20km road walk championships
Last year to a friend of Marcia dal Mondo who asked us the reasons why we seemed so devoted to Kobe (JPN) and its 20km of Japanese race walk championships. We had no hesitation. First of all we confirmed our feeling that we declared to corres...
04/02/2018 - Quarteira (POR): Ines Henriques and Joao Vieira 2018 champions of Portugal
Today the Portuguese Championships of the 20km road walk took place in Quarteira (POR). The races took place on a 1,000m circuit near the Municipal Stadium of Quarteira on the following distances: - seniors: 20km - U20: 10km - U18: 10km boys and 5km...
04/02/2018 - Antalya (TUR): Very good result of Meryem Bekmez
Also this weekend was very intense. An interesting result comes from Antalya (TUR) where in the first race of the 2018 outdoor season the protagonist is the young Turca Meryem Bekmez. 10km U20 women The young athlete (date of bi...
04/02/2018 - Genova (ITA): Victories of Jin Xiangqian (CHN) in men and Qieyang Shenije (CHN) in women
This morning took place in Genoa the first stage of the Frigerio Trophy with the participation of the Chinese athletes who conclude their winter stay in San Lorenzo al Mare with this race. The two most important races were held on the distanc...
03/02/2018 - Algeciras (ESP): Victories of Ainhoa Pinedo, Julia Takacs and Luis Alberto Amezcua
Algeciras (ESP) today hosted the Andalusia Road Walk Championships on the 10km distance. The program also included the following competitions for women (35km and 20km) plus other competitions for youth categories. 35km women A s...
03/02/2018 - Ancona (ITA) - Italian U23 e U20 Indoor Championships
Everything is ready in Ancona for the 2018 edition of the Italian U23 and U20 Indoor Championships. We only remember the times of the competitions: - 3:00pm: 3.000m indoor U20 women - 3.30pm: 5.000m indoor U23 men - 4:05pm: 3.000m indoor U23 women -...
02/02/2018 - Riga (LAT): Agnese Pastare and Ruslan Smolonskis 2018 Latvian Indoor Champions
We end the reports on last week's news with the Latvian indoor championships that took place in the small indoor facility in Riga: small but functional with a three-lane oval and a 60m-long central four-lane straight. The two walking race...
31/01/2018 - Canberra (AUS): Evan Dunfee wins the AACT Championships
The open competition of the Australian Capital Territory Championships held in Canberra between 26th and 28th January 2018 has not been tracked in the intense weekend that has just ended. The race walk events were held on the distance of 5,00...
31/01/2018 - Ancona (ITA): Italian Indoor U23 and U20 Championships preview
In the weekend between Saturday and Sunday (3-4.2.2018) the Indoor Championships of the different categories also take place in Italy. It starts immediately with the championships that have always offered the highest participation, those of U...
30/01/2018 - Focus on Annalisa Russo (ITA) new entry in U23 age group
The result obtained in Grosseto (ITA) by the young athlete Annalisa Russo (ITA) not yet twenty years old has not gone unnoticed by Marcia dal Mondo, but due to the International rules, which take into account the age at 31.12.2018, she competes in t...
30/01/2018 - Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN) and Ines Henriques (POR) best athletes of January 2018
During this intense month of January it was competed almost everywhere starting from New Year's Day and in many distances. We asked ourselves the following question: which is the best athlete of the month based on the performance obtained...
29/01/2018 - Bratislava (SVK): Meeting Elan: victories of Erick Barrondo (GUA) and Maria Czakova (SVK)
The 17th International Indoor Athletics Meeting in Bratislava took place between morning and early afternoon. 5.000m indoor walk men The race saw Matej Toth (SVK) return to competitions, which had stopped since april of p...
29/01/2018 - Sumy (UKR): Kazanin e Havrylyuk win Ukranian indoor Championships
In the intense weekend that characterized this end of January, the Indoor Championships of Ukraine took place in Sumy (UKR). The two races took place on Saturday Juanuary 27, 2018 during the first of the two days of competition in the small, ...
28/01/2018 - Grosseto (ITA) - Great result of Giorgio Rubino, world season leader in 35km
This morning took place in Grosseto the first race of the Italian Clubs Championship on the main distance of 35km for both men and women. 35km men - at 10km: Three athletes took the lead, Marco de Luca, Giorgio Rubino and...
27/01/2018 - Sucua (ECU): Chocho won 35km, national record to Glenda Morejon
Sucua, a city at 900m altitude in Ecuador hosted yesterday the "Campeonato Nacional de Marcha Atletica". It was an opportunity to test the course and organization as the next March 10, 2018 Sucua will host the "Campeonato Sudam...
26/01/2018 - Good indications from the competition-test carried out by the Chinese group on the San Lorenzo al Mare cycle course
Also this year the Chinese team in training for about 20 days in San Lorenzo al Mare has carried out the usual competition-test to evaluate the organic and technical condition in view of the selection races for next World Race Walk Team Championship...
26/01/2018 - Matej Toth (SVK) back to racing
Tomorrow returns to racing Matej Toth (SVK). The 2016 Rio Olympic Champion will return to the competition after the controversial stop that led him to renounce the World Championships in London 2017. The year 2017 was a particularly di...
25/01/2018 - Lima (PER): Kimberly Garcia and Cesar Rodriguez national champions in 20km
Last weekend also in Peru took place in Lima (locality Videna) the National Road Walk Championships. The races, open to all categories, were held on the distances of 20km and 10km for the U20, while the 50km race was reduced, as is now often ...
25/01/2018 - Grosseto (ITA): Sunday first leg of Clubs Championships
And finally, race walk with the first phase of the Clubs Championships, the heir of what had been years before the Winter Race Walking Trophy, also appears in the national limelight. For the second consecutive year Grosseto will host this eve...
24/01/2018 - Chinese team is training in San Lorenzo al Mare (ITA)
When 100 days are missing at the upcoming IAAF World Team Championships in Taicang, some of China's most important and interesting team names are training in Italy. At the beginning of January, the team, under the guidance of Sandro Damil...
23/01/2018 - Taicang (CHN): countdown 100 days
Yesterday in Beijing (CHN) the "less 100 days" Press Conference was held for the upcoming IAAF World Team Championship 2018 di Taicang. The fateful date of the "less 100 days" will be the next 25 January 2018. The ceremony...
22/01/2018 - Overview on an intense January 2018
Although the indoor season is just beginning, and the outdoor season is taking place in particular in the southern hemisphere, between the end of December and today the races and their emotions are not lacking. We started immediately with a b...
21/01/2018 - Pombal (POR) - Ruben Santos and Ines Reis are the new U20 indoor champions of Portugal
The U20 Indoor Championships of Portugal are currently underway in Pombal (POR) with the two race walking tests which took place yesterday January 20, 2018. The two tests were held on the usual standard distances of 5.000m indoor for men and 3.000m ...
20/01/2018 - Santee (USA): Nick Christie (USA) and Mariela Sanchez (MEX) are the winners of 50km USA Championships
In the US morning in Santee, California (USA) the 50km 2018 US Championships took place, both male and female. As usual an open competition. 50km men Victory to Nick Christie (USA) in 4:09:32 that in addition ...
16/01/2018 - Istanbul (TU): Meryem Bekmez wins by record
It was Meryem Bekmez, the star of the Sport Toto Salon in Istanbul, where the Turkish indoor walking championships for the various categories were held. 5.000m indoor walk women Despite being still U20 Meryem Bekmez (TUR) has do...
15/01/2018 - Pombal (POR): João Bernardo and Catarina Santos U18 Portoguese Champions
Saturday and Sunday (13 and 14) were held at the Expocentre in Pombal, the National Indoor Championships of Portugal for the U18 biys and girls. The distances were the usual 5.000m indoor for boys and 3.000m indoor for girls. Both events took...
15/01/2018 - Marathonas (GRE): Konstantinos Ntentopoulos and Angeliki Makri won the 50km race walk Championships in Greece
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 ...
14/01/2018 - Canberra (AUS): Victories of Perseus Karlstrom and Beki Smith
2018 Australian 10,000m Race Walk Championships, AIS track, Bruce, ACT, Sunday 14th January With so many high quality international walkers gathered in Canberra for the annual Supernova study and camp, the 10,000m Australian track walk champi...
13/01/2018 - Kiev (UKR): Very good result of Ruslan Dmiytrenko in indoor meeting
On Saturday 9 January 2018 the Christmas Meeting (according to the Orthodox calendar) took place in Kiev (UKR) with a series of indoor competitions including the 5,000m race walk for both men and women. 5.000m indoor men Excelle...
10/01/2018 - Hanley (GBR): Effectiveness of popular race walking drills in activating key muscles
We publish, as indicated by the author, a brief summary of the article published in the issue 3/4, 2016 of New Studies in Athletics by Brian Hanley entitled "Effectiveness of popular race walking drills in activating key muscles". I...
09/01/2018 - Canberra (AUS): Australian Open Championships of 10.000m track walk
Sunday will be held in Canberra (AUS) the Championships of Australia of 10.000m track walk for men and women. The departure is scheduled at 8:00am for women and 9:30am for men when a temperature of about 23° Celsius is expected. A high qu...
08/01/2018 - Sheffield (GBR): Callum Wilkinson and Gemma Bridge win English Championships
On Sunday 7 January in Sheffield, the Indoor Walking Championships were held, organized by the England Athletics, on the distance of 3,000m indoors for both men and women and with a mixed race reserved to U15 (boys and girls) over the distance of 1,...
07/01/2018 - Porto de Mos (POR): Victory of Ines Henriques with the new record of Portugal
This morning the Portuguese Marcia Road Championship took place in Porto de Mos (POR). The star of the event was certainly Ines Henriques who last year on the same course had established the first of her two world records on the distance of 5...
05/01/2018 - Porto de Mos (POR): National Championships on 35km and 50km
Porto de Mos, in Leiria, will host for the second consecutive year, the Portuguese Championships of 35 and 50 km of road walk, on a one kilometer circuit, designed in the city center. The event will be held Sunday, January 7th, starting from 9.00am....
04/01/2018 - 2017 - One year of race walking in the world
We were in the mid-nineties when a famous international statistic on race walking, unfortunately passed away, used to say that "while the athletic power of a Country is measured by its 4x400 relay, the same power in race walking is measured on ...
03/01/2018 - Aichi (JPN): the third 2018 race within an hour
The interesting competition on the first races of the year 2018 does not end. This time it's the time of another race in Japan, which has almost half a century of history. An hour after the first race in Tokyo (and therefore, time zones permitti...
02/01/2018 - Good morning 50km and Happy New Year (di Paul DeMeester)
In the contest for the first race of the year 2018 Hong Kong had to succumb to Tokyo for no more than thirty minutes. Following is the nice report by Paul DeMeester - USA, known to most for his battle for gender equality. &nb...
01/01/2018 - Yohann Diniz (FRA): forty years and looking younger
Today Yohann Diniz celebrates its fortieth birthday. Celebrate this day as World Champion in charge is not a trivial matter, and even less recently is the expectation of a particularly high level European season. The story of Yohann Di...
01/01/2018 - Daisuke Matsunaga (JPN): start of the year with a bang !
Yesterday we were convinced that the first walk of 2018 should be that of Hong Kong, but for the reasons of time zone we were misled. This morning (at 9.20 in Tokyo) near the new Olympic Stadium that is currently under construction took place...