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31/12/2019 - Saransk (RUS): Vctories of Yelena Lashmanova and Aleksey Kudashkin
There were about 300 participants in the Open indoor racewalking championship of the Republic of Mordovia in memory of German Skurygin. There were 7 age categories and 4 distances: * 1997 year of birth and older - 5000m * 1998-2000 year of bi...
30/12/2019 - Jablonec nad Nisou (CZE): Victories of Anezka Drahotova and Lukas Gdula
Indoor activity also started in the Czech Republic in Jablonec nad Nisou (CZE). And Friday, December 27, immediately a result with a bang even if obtained on an unusual distance (5.000m indoor walk): Anezka Drahotova (CZE) established the new...
29/12/2019 - Athletes section: updated reports of the best 2019 men's world athletes (first part)
We continue with the first part of the best athletes in the world of 2019 with the following table that summarizes the athletes of Asia: Area Nation Number of Ahletes ...
29/12/2019 - 68th edition Tokyo race walk Championships on January 1st, 2020
In the usual competition between Tokyo and Hong Kong on what will be the first race of the year 2020, the complicity of the time zone plays little in favor of the capital of Japan. Also this year the program of the 68th edition of the Tokyo A...
28/12/2019 - Guadix (ESP) Victories of Luis Alberto Amezcua and Laura Garcia-Caro
An afternoon dedicated to race walking today in Guadix (ESP) where the XXXIV edition of the Grand Priz City of Guadix was held, also valid as the XV Edition of the Manuel Alcalde Memorial. Some words about this wonderful person who unfortunat...
27/12/2019 - Lebogang Shange (RSA) failed a doping test for Trembolone
South African race-walking star Lebogang Shange has failed a doping test for a steroid‚ the Athletics Integrity Unit has announced today. The 29-year-old‚ who ended fourth at the world championships two years ago‚ test...
22/12/2019 - Sumy (UKR): return to racing and victory for Lyudmila Olyanovska
Start of the indoor activity of the 2019-2020 season in Sumy (UKR) with the walking races dedicated to the Olympic champion Volodimyr Golubnichy. The men's and women's races for the senior categories, U23, and U20 were held at the SSU...
21/12/2019 - Dear Santa Claus ...
Dear Santa Claus, This is one of the letters that are being sent to Lapland these days according to tradition and this year starts from the administration of Marcia dal Mondo. However what might a web administrator ask Santa Claus willing to ...
19/12/2019 - Athletes section: updated reports of the best 2019 women's world athletes (second part)
We continue with the second part of the best athletes in the World in 2019 with the following table which summarizes the athletes of Europe: Area Naion Number of athletes &nbs...
17/12/2019 - San Jose (CRC): Costa Rica national championships
Saturday, December 14, 2019, the National Road Championships of Costa Rica affiliated to the NACAC took place in San José de Costa Rica. The course was located outside the National Stadium of the Sabana of San José. Not many ath...
16/12/2019 - Hong Kong (HKG): Victories of Chin Man Kit and Ching Siu Nga
The open national championships of the local Athletics Federation took place on Sunday 15 December in Hong Kong. The races on the distance of 20km for seniors men and women and on the distance of 5km for the U20 were held on the usual circuit...
15/12/2019 - Getafe (ESP): Victories of Alvaro Martin and Lidia Sanchez-Puebla
The XXI edition of Cerro de Buenavista Trophy was held today in Getafe (ESP). The usual intense participation, even if we are at the end of the season, for the pleasure of the local organizers, in this event scheduled by the Asociación...
13/12/2019 - The Chinese champions in Saluzzo - interview with Sandro Damilano
If we look at the ranking and lists of the World Athletics in the women's walk, we find that China monopolizes six of the first eleven positions. Seeing in Italy, in Saluzzo, in training three of these six athletes is, in recent years, something...
11/12/2019 - Athletes section: reports update of the best 2019 women's world athletes
Sandro Damilano has finished updating the 2019 most representing male athletes in the world included with the most up-to-date technical reports (we remember that last season unfortunately due to lack of time this update had been done only for m...
10/12/2019 - Raheny (IRL): Callum Wilkinson wins the 30km, Brendan Boyce and Kate Veale champions of Ireland
The Irish National Race Walking Championships took place on Saturday 7 December at St. Annes Park in Raheny, Dublin (IRL). The number of participants was also good due to the fact that the competitions were also open to athletes from other na...
10/12/2019 - The Swiss Federal Court rejects Schwazer's appeal. Acquired in Bolzano Fischetto, Fiorella and Bottiglieri
Bad news for Alex Schwazer, the walker at the center of a controversial legal-sports case. The Swiss Federal Court of Lausanne did not grant the precautionary measure, that is, the suspension of the disqualification that the South Tyrolean walker Al...
09/12/2019 - Russia banned by WADA for a period of four years
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russia from participating in major international sports tournaments, including the Olympics and World Championships, for a period of four years. The Tass reports it. The WADA executive committee ...
09/12/2019 - Clark City (PHI): South East Asia Games
During the South East Asia Games, the two race walk events were held in Clark City in the Philippines. The women's race (on the 10,000m track walk) took place yesterday, December 8, at 6:30, while the men's race (in the classic 20km d...
08/12/2019 - 2019 Nagasaki Land Kyodo Tournament
Still numerically interesting contests in Japan where the Nagasaki Land Kyoto Tournament of race walking, opened also in high and low schools, this morning (local time) in Nagasaki. The races took place on the Sasebo stadium track with number...
05/12/2019 - The Olympic race walk will take place in Sapporo
Now it's official. Road walk competitions at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo will be held on the island of Hokkaido in Sapporo. The forecast of the hot August weather would have convinced the IOC to make these moves, although the solution wo...
04/12/2019 - Hinchu (TPE): national Championships of Chinese Taipei
Although late, thanks to Anett Torma (in turn thanks to Mr. Teng Kuo-Kay, CTTFA) we learned of the conduct of the Chinese Taipei National Championships that took place in the city of Hsinchu on Nov 16, 2019. Hinchu is a city of about half a m...
03/12/2019 - San Luis (PER): Victories of Mary Luz Andia and Cesar Augusto Rodriguez in Nacional Cup 2019
From November 29 to December 1, 2019, in the city of San Luis in Perù took place the National Cup. There were two race events, both on the 10,000m distance on track. 10,000m women track walk The usual fight between the th...
01/12/2019 - Melbourne (AUS): Rhydian Cowley wins the 50km Australian Championships
The Australian 50km race walk championships took place today in Melbourne in Fawner Park with some other events. 50km men The early pace of the race was dictated by Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) who led the race up to 40km and ...
30/11/2019 - Liu Hong female athlete of the year in the survey of Marcia dal Mondo
Two months ago we launched a survey among our readers with the aim of knowing their idea on the best walkers of the year 2019 proposed by Marcia dal Mondo. We now wish to recall that in men we proposed the following eight athletes - ...
29/11/2019 - Yusuke Suzuki male athlete of the year in the survey of Marcia dal Mondo
Two months ago we launched a survey among our readers with the aim of knowing their idea on the best walkers of the year 2019 proposed by Marcia dal Mondo. We now wish to recall that in men we proposed the following eight athletes - Wa...
28/11/2019 - Bolivar (COL) - XXI National Sport Games
Bolivar 2019 hosts "Los juegos del bicentenario" with the athletics competitions that started on Monday 25th November and will end on Saturday 30th November. The race races were all held in the morning session on Wednesday 27 Novemb...
23/11/2019 - World Athletics Award 2019: Liu Hong also awarded for the world record on 50km
The award ceremony of the athlete of the year at the 2019 World Athletics Awards took place today at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Saturday 23 November. Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) and Dalilah Muhammad (USA) were named the male and female World at...
22/11/2019 - Toledo (ESP): Lidia Sanchez-Puebla and Alvaro Lopez Nunez win the Espada Toledana
On Saturday 16 November 2018 the 31st edition of the "Espada Toledana" was held in Toledo. Also this year the race took place on track. The distance of the two most important events was that of the 5,000m track walk. Importan...
21/11/2019 - The best Italian women athletes in 2019
We have been finished updating the technical sheets of the most representative athletes in Italy in the 2019 season. We have therefore begun the updating of the Italian Female Athletes section which hase been completed at 31.12.2019. C...
13/11/2019 - The best Italian men athletes in 2019
We have been finished updating the technical sheets of the most representative athletes in Italy in the 2019 season. We have therefore begun the updating of the Italian Athletes section which hase been completed at 31.12.2019. Compared...
11/11/2019 - Many updates in the History section
As usual the last part of the season is dedicated to the annual update of the History section. This year there have been five major events of which Marcia dal Mondo updates the history cards. IAAF World Championshi...
10/11/2019 - Alex Schwazer returns to training: the dream is Tokyo 2020
This evening, the Adnronos agency published an incredible news: Alex Schwazer came back to training and is counting to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The athlete's lawyer Gerhand Brandstaetter and the coach Alessandro Donati announced it. Curre...
09/11/2019 - Hartwig Gauder: the 65 years of his second life and a fantastic career
If today a neophyte of race walking looked at the following sequence of the best seasonal performances of the 50km in the time period from 1980 to 1992 he would probably remain loss of words. In twelve years of intense international activity ...
08/11/2019 - Glenda Morejon one of five finalists announced for 2019 IAAF RIsing Star World Award
The World Athletics Federation announced on Sunday that the young Ecuadorian walker, Glenda Morejón, is one of five finalists for the "World Rising Star Award 2019" women's prize, which will be presented to the winner, and will ...
08/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the best athlete and the top 10 athletes in the 50km men: "Italy vs World"
Also this year Marcia dal Mondo wanted to enrich its statistical analyzes by adding the following interesting comparisons: a) 50 km men: the speed of the top athlete in Italy compared to that of the top athlete in the World b)&nbs...
08/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the best athlete and the top 10 athletes in 20km women: "Italy vs World"
Also this year Marcia dal Mondo wanted to enrich its statistical analyzes by adding the following interesting comparisons: a) 20 km men: the speed of the top athlete in Italy compared to that of the top athlete in the World b)&nbs...
07/11/2019 - Mukachevo (UKR): 24th Carpathian cup
On Sunday 2 November the 2012 edition of the Carpathian Cup was held. It is a race walk competition that takes place almost always at the end of the season, and that does not often involve top athletes, but it is a competition of the Ukrainia...
06/11/2019 - Guntur (IND): 35° Indian National Championships U20, U18 and U16
Guntur in Andhra Pradesh (IND) hosts the 35th Indian Athletics Championship U16, U18 and U20, which started on November 2nd and will end today. The race walk events (two for each day) took place from Sunday to Tuesday, always early in the mor...
05/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the best athlete and the top 10 athletes in the 20km men: "Italy vs World"
Also this year Marcia dal Mondo wanted to enrich its statistical analyzes by adding the following interesting comparisons: a) 20 km men: the speed of the top athlete in Italy compared to that of the top athlete in the World b) 20 km me...
04/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the first 10 athletes in 20km men: "Area vs World"
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 - W...
04/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the first 10 athletes in 20km women: "Area vs World"
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 ...
03/11/2019 - Evolution of the average speed of the first 10 athletes in 50km men: "Area vs World"
Also 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 the march. We wanted to call it with a name similar to one quite fashionable in r...
02/11/2019 - Trends of speed performances in women walking (20km and 50km)
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 2019 we made two big changes: • ...
01/11/2019 - Trends of speed performances in men walking (20km and 50km)
This month, as past years, in the Statistics section were published graphs updated for trends of speed performances in road walking events. The years taken into consideration, regarding male categories, were: &n...
31/10/2019 - Sergey Bakulin (RUS): banned 8 years for anomalies in biological passport (ABP case)
Sergey Bakulin (RUS) had returned to compete on February 27, 2016 at the Winter Marching Championships in Sochi (RUS), after a pause that started from February 23, 20013 for a positivity. Although he could not compete abroad for the well-know...
30/10/2019 - Will be Sapporo the ultimate venue for the Tokyo 2020 race walk and marathon ?
Sapporo will be the ultimate venue for the Tokyo 2020 race walk and marathon. The IOC decides that the running and marathon tests of the Tokyo Olympic Games will be held definitively in Sapporo It is increasingly likely that the walking and ma...
28/10/2019 - Masatora Kawano and Liu Hong athletes of the month of October 2019
The decision of the athlete of the month of October 2019 was a little complicated for men. On October 4 was played the 20km of Doha 2019 World Champiopnships and for the nomination of the best athlete of the same month we want to adhere to th...
27/10/2019 - Takatata (JPN): Masatora Kawano (3:36:45) breaks Japan's national record that belonged to Yusuke Suzuki
Masatora Kawano is the second Japan athlete qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the men's 50-kilometer race walking after he won today an event in Takahata, Yamagata Prefecture in a Japanese national record time. Kawano, a 21-year-ol...
27/10/2019 - Takahata (JPN) - Other events of All Japan Championships
The other races of the day: 50km women Only four athletes at the start. Undisputed victory for Yuki Yoshizumi (JPN) in 4:27:51 These are her split times each 5km. - 5km: 25:56 - 10km: 52:06 (2...
26/10/2019 - Zagreb (CRO): Ivana Renic gets the new record of Croatia on 20km
The 14th meeting in memory of Ivan Starek was held Saturday in Zagreb (CRO), combined with the unique test of the Croatian Championships. The championships were organized by the Atletski Klub Agram to which Kresimir Jurlin belongs, to whom mu...
25/10/2019 - Wuhan (CHN): Three victories of China in World Military Championships
The 7th World Military Championships are underway in Wuhan, the most populous city in eastern China and capital of the province of Hubei. 138 nations participate in the event. The disciplines in the program are 31. The nations already on the ...
24/10/2019 - Takahata (JPN) - Sunday the All Japan Championships 50km
On Sunday 27 October, the 58th edition of the Takatsuki Tournament will be held in Takakata, featuring the All Japan Championships of the 50km. These Championships are valid for the selection of the national team of Japan for the Tokyo 2020 O...
24/10/2019 - Taihu (CHN) - Report of the third day
A day with a little hazy sky awaits the walkers at the beginning in the center of Mudu. 12 km men After a few meters from the start, Chen Ding, the London 2012 Olympic champion, returned to the race from a few months. ...
23/10/2019 - Taihu (CHN) - Perseus Karlstrom and Erica De Sena are the winners of Around Taihu 2019
(From IAAF web-site) Sweden’s Perseus Karlstrom confirmed his favourite status to dominate the men’s race with three straight victories at the Around Taihu International Race Walking competition while Brazil’s Erica de Sena ...
21/10/2019 - Taihu (CHN): Perseus Karlstrom and Erica De Sena are the winner of 2nd stage
Second day of competition in Taihu, on a new course that involves a stretch of road and a stretch in a park for a total of 12km. Less hot day than yesterday and more windy. 12km men Compact group up to seven kilometers, wh...
20/10/2019 - Taihu (CHN): Perseus Karlstrom and Liu Hong win the first stage
Quite hot day with a temperature of almost 23 ° C and high humidity. The route is usually the traditional one with a round trip of 10km. 20km men Punctual departure and immediately the group of about...
18/10/2019 - Russia: canceled the licenses of three race walking coaches
The All-Russia Athletics Federation has cancelled the licences of race walking coaches Sergei Nikitin, Vyacheslav Golovin and Sergei Aparin, informs TASS. In a statement released by the All-Russia Athletics Federation, at lea...
17/10/2019 - Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado celebrates half a century of life
Today Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado celebrates half a century of life. Eighteen days ago, the 1993 Spanish world champion, at 49, was at his 13th World Championships - eighth in 4:11:28: a monument, for everyone, especially for the teaching left...
16/10/2019 - IOC announces plan to move olympic marathon and race walking to Sapporo (JPN)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it is planning to move the Olympic marathon and race walking events to Sapporo, the host city of the Olympic Winter Games 1972. The move to Hokkaido, the northern-most prefecture of Japa...
11/10/2019 - Around Taihu 2019: entry lists
Who has not come to Taihu at least once, does not know what is lost. A proven and almost perfect organization (only the weather can leave a sign of negativity, but for some years it has not been so). Beautiful and tested courses, punctual tra...
08/10/2019 - Vienna (AUT): Eva Čanadi (SLO) at the new national record of Slovenia on the 20km
The Austrian 50 km open championships took place on the main avenue of the Vienna Prater on Saturday 5 October. In the context, all the lower distances (5,10,20 and 30 km) were also inserted, in which 34 athletes from Austria, Croatia, Hungar...
07/10/2019 - Tilburg (NED): Stefano Chiesa wins 50km in 3:48:50
Today the Dutch race walking championships have been held in Tilburg (NED) which are also combined with those of Belgium and Denmark. The 50km and 20km races are as always open. 50km men Excellent result for...
06/10/2019 - Forlì (ITA): Giada Traina and Diego Giampaolo win U16 Italian Championships
Yesterday in Forlì (ITA), the Italian individual and regional championships of the U16 category (boys and girls) took place. The two races took place on track on the distance of: - m. 3.000 for U16 girls starting at 15.24 - m. 5....
05/10/2019 - Doha (QAT) - Japan wins again with Toshikazu Yamanishi
(from IAAF web-site by Steve Landells) Japan completed a glorious men’s race walking double at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 courtesy of a commanding performance by world leader Toshikazu Yamanishi. The bespectacled 2...
04/10/2019 - Rio, La Coruna, Doha: fair play is born of common effort
Race walking is style, but it is also fair play: the Orientals, in particular, are teaching it to us and it is born from the common effort. In a specialty of athletics in which the respect for the rules has a very high weight and depends on a...
03/10/2019 - Yusuke Suzuki and Liu Hong athletes of the month of September 2019
For the choice of the athlete of September 2019, although there were other minor competitions around the world, we decided to focus our choice only on the Doha 2019 World Championships. This is not only because it is the most important track ...
02/10/2019 - Analysis of the 20 km women and comparison with the previous world championship in London 2017
We must immediately say (for those not present in Doha) that the weather conditions are beyond the limit of the thinkable. Never has a competition of this level taken place in these last years in these conditions. Maybe we need to get to Melbourne 1...
01/10/2019 - The beautiful walk of Liu Hong and Qieyang Shenjie
The nine judges who in Doha (QAT) judged the three walk events up to date held for the 2019 World Championships can be considered lucky people. First of all because some of them have crowned their dream of participating in a Wor...
30/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - Eternal Liu Hong, China with a historic 1st, 2nd and 3rd
(from IAAF website by Jon Mulkeen - GBR) Having only just returned this season from a two-year maternity break, 32-year-old Liu Hong landed her third world 20km race walk title, looking every bit as dominant as she did when winning her previo...
29/09/2019 - Doha 50km: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) and Liang Rui (CHN) win the 50km
(from IAAF website by Jon Mulkeen - GBR) 50km men History was made in more ways than one in the men’s 50km race walk at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 as Saturday (28) merged into Sunday (29). Yusuke Suzuki beca...
28/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - the day of truth has arrived
uiHere we are, the moment of truth has arrived. In the sadness of one of the last 50km of the long history of race walking, but it has arrived. Someone compares this 50km of Doha to a lottery, similar to that of the Olympic Games in Me...
26/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - Biographies of the participants
IAAF has published the biographies of the athletes participating in the World Championships in Doha. The ones related to race walking competitions were taken from us in the "Statistics" section. They can also be downl...
24/09/2019 - Doha (QAT)- The 50km road cancellation is not supposable
The alarm, late on Monday, had been launched by France Telévision and soon resumed by various media in particular from France, but also by us: «The IAAF - they claimed - given the exceptional heat that is facing Friday and Saturday nigh...
23/09/2019 - Doha (QAT)- The 50km road walk may be at risk
The French site sport.francetvinfo.fr has posted a news written by Romain Bonte which, if confirmed, would have been resounding ( here the link to the web-site ). Some races of the 2019 World Athletics Championships risk being ...
22/09/2019 - Doping violations in the history of World Championships
Doping violations have influenced almost all the editions of the world championships since their first edition and they involved many events. The only cases where there was no violation were: - the edition of Malmoe 1976 of the 50km race walk World ...
22/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - 20km World Championships (Men) - the most wide open-event
The 2019 season presented the walkers with four races of the highest level on the 20km: Kobe, Huangshan, Nomi and La Coruna. Almost all the candidates for winning the Doha 2019 World Championships have successfully competed in one of these four inte...
21/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - 20km World Championships (Women) - Glenda Morejon vs China
In La Coruna a few months ago, a tiny women from Ecuador, Glenda Morejon, produced one of the biggest breaktrhough performances of the year. In her first 20km race the Ecuadorian walker audaciously defeated in 1:25:29 - the fastest time...
20/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - 50km World Championships (Men) - All against Diniz, Garcia Bragado makes the history
The law of numbers speaks clearly in athletics: don't improvise! But the law of numbers in the 50km walk has a variable that sometimes goes crazy: “on your marks” and “fire of the gun” and he takes the lead from the first...
19/09/2019 - One month to "Around Taihu 2019" hurry to enter in
Today, exactly one month is missing from the first stage of the now classic "multiday" end of season: Around Taihu. The great and excellent organization of friends of the Taihu LOC is already in full swing. This year t...
18/09/2019 - Doha (QAT) - 50km World Championships (Women) - preview
Saturday, September 28th at an unusual time for Europe (22.30), the Doha World Championships in Qatar begin for the race walks events. The first race scheduled is that of the 50km which will see men and women together at the start. &nb...
16/09/2019 - Druskininkai (LTU): a storm of personal best in 10km
On the morning of Saturday, September 14, the traditional race walk meeting took place in Druskininkai (LTU), which this year has now reached the XXVII edition. Good participation in the two elite races on the 10km distance. Interesting parti...
15/09/2019 - Gdansk (POL): Victories of Damian Blocki (POL) and Mariya Filyuk (UKR)
Last week Gdansk hosted the Polish Road Walk Championships for the U23 and U20 categories on the 20km distance. The championship test was held in conjunction with the 54th edition of the Polish Postal Cup. This last race, which took place at ...
14/09/2019 - Rieti (ITA): The national finals of the Italian U23 Championships
The national final of the U23 Clubs Championship is underway in Rieti. On Saturday afternoon two races (men and women) took place on the 5.000m distance on track. 5.000m track walk men There were six athletes at th...
11/09/2019 - Voronovo (RUS): the return to the races with victories by Ivan Noskov and Elmira Alembekova-Ivanova
Voronovo seems to have become another pole for race walk competitions in Russia. We were used to the names of Cheboksary and Saransk as well as the winter names of Sochi. Instead in this last part of the season Voronovo (about seventy kilometers fro...
10/09/2019 - The IAAF rejects ANA status to Elena Lashmanova
On 10 September 2019 the IAAF published an update to the list of athletes who can compete with the status of ANA (Authorized Neutral Athlete). Among them is the young walker Yuliya Turova (born 9.6.1997), who have the following ...
08/09/2019 - Adelaide (AUS): Australian Winter Roadwalk Championships
2019 Australian Roadwalk Championships, Adelaide, Sunday 8 September The Australian Roadwalk Championships were contested in the Adelaide Parklands, Adelaide, on the morning of Sunday 8th August. The venue was the same one used for the Austra...
07/09/2019 - Lechan (CHN): Victories of Wang Rui and Bai Tiantian in 50km
On the second day of the National Fall Championships in China the 50km (men and women), 30km (U20 men) and 10km U18 competitions are held. The Chinese morning saw the development of two 50km and 30km. 50km men &nbs...
06/09/2019 - Leshan (CHN): Return to victory Lu Xiuzhi (1:30:04); in men wins Sun Shuai (1:22:18)
The competitions of the China National Autumn Championships in Leshan in the Sichuan province are in full swing. The population is around 3,500,000 inhabitants of which 1,200,000 live in the urban area. A decade ago the area of Mount Emei, ...
06/09/2019 - Perseus Karlstrom and Johana Edelmira Ordones athletes of August 2019
The choice of the athlete for the month of August 2019 is restricted only to the races of the Pan-American Games of Lima, to the Spanish Championships on track, to the Open Belarus Championships and to the Finnkampen 2019 between Finland and Sweden....
02/09/2019 - Yekaterina Medvedeva Ryzhova (RUS): 8 years suspension for anomalies in biological passport (ABP case)
No later than about ten days ago we gave the news of the suspension by the IAAF Integrity Unit for 8 years to Sergey Bakulin ( click here ). On 08.29.2019 the Integrity Unit of the IAAF has now banned Yekaterina Medvedeva Ryzho...
01/09/2019 - La Nucia, Alicante (ESP): Maria Perez wins the Spanish Championships in 43:52.08
Also this morning there is a sunny day at La Nucia (ESP) near Alicante for the second of the two walking races of the National Absolute Championships in Spain: that of the 10,000m track walk women. 10.000m track walk women ...
01/09/2019 - Chasso (SUI): Great mark of Qieyang Shenije (1:26:51) and victory of Stefano Chiesa (1:21:54)
The 15th edition of the "Chiasso in Marcia" race was held this morning at 20 km. Route of 1 km. not very suitable for super performances (500 slightly downhill and 500 slightly uphill with buoy on slippery stone slabs). Not very high parti...
01/09/2019 - Bewitched by Beatriz Pascual
It was Friday 11 June 1999. In the service bus between the terminal of the airport of Fiumicino, Rome on the evening flight to Catania we were all crammed, and behind me I hear a shouting in Spanish. I turn around and see some young girls in RFEA tr...
31/08/2019 - La Nucia, Alicante (ESP): Alvaro Martin wins the Spanish Championships in 39:33.38
Under the sun of La Nucia (ESP) near Alicante this morning the first of the two walking events of the National Absolute Track Championships of Spain was held: that of the 10.000m men. 10.000m track walk men Immediately go...
30/08/2019 - Radom (POL): Dawid Tomala and Katarzyna Zdzieblo Polish champions 2019
Radom (POL) hosted the national championships in Poland which took place on the classic 10,000m track walk distances for men and 5,000m track walk for women. 10.000m track walk men Only eight athletes at the start, but a very in...
30/08/2019 - Igor Glavan (UKR): ineligibility period for doping is expired on 24.7.2019
On 30 July 2018 we had announced the suspensions, due to doping actions, by the Federation of Ukraine of the following athletes: Ruslan Dmitrenko, Nazar Kovalenko and Igor Glavan. In particular we referred to the suspension of Igor Glavan who had ap...
29/08/2019 - Chiasso (SUI): 15th edition of "Chasso in walk"
Sunday, September 1 will be held in Chiasso the 15th edition of the classic "Chiasso in marcia" competition organized by the Lugano Athletic Club, of which the former walker Marie Polli is responsible for race walk sector. Th...
29/08/2019 - La Nucia (ESP): Spanish Championships on 10.000m track walk
Weekend of interest for race walking with the Absolute Championships of Spain that will take place in La Nucia, near Alicante on the 10,000m track walk and with the 15th edition of Chiasso in Marcia (also valid as the 20km road walk Swiss Championsh...
28/08/2019 - Rabat (MAR): Emily Wamusyi Ngii and Samuel Kireri Gathimba won th 12nd African Games
The 12th African Games are underway in Rabat (MAR). Today, early in the morning, the third day of track and field trials began with the two road walk events held in the Moulay Abdellah Sport Complex starting just 15min away: the women at 7:33...
27/08/2019 - Minsk (BLR): victories of Salih Korkmaz (TUR) and Victoriya Rashchupkina
Friday 23 August and Saturday 24 August Minsk hosted a working visit by the IAAF commission. On the agenda were the preparations for the race of the World Race Walk Team Championship that the Belarusian capital will host in 2020. On this occa...
26/08/2019 - Stockholm (SWE): Karlstrom wins the 2019 Finnkampen with a world-class time (38:03.95)
To get an idea of what the word Finnkampen means in Finland and Sweden, perhaps it would be enough to look carefully at the cover photo. We believe that at the level of athletics the annual meeting between Finland and Sweden which takes place altern...
25/08/2019 - Birmingham (GBR): Bethan Dawies and Callum Wilkinson (new national record) won the GBR track championships
Intense morning at the Birmingham Alexander Stadium where the Muller British Athletics Champoionships are underway. Also in Great Britain the National Track Championships took place on the distance of 5.000m. 5.000m track walk w...
24/08/2019 - Voronovo (RUS): the 60th edition thanks to Evgeny Ivanov
Today the capital of race walking of the Republic of Moskovia (RUS), Voronovo, celebrates the 60th year of organization of the classic race walk competition. The head of the administration of Voronovo, Evgeny Ivanov, a great lover of r...
22/08/2019 - Lugano (SUI): Stefano Chiesa and Martina Ansaldi are the winner at the Evening Meeting
Saturday, August 17th at the Cornaredo stadium in Lugano took place the classic Evening Athletics Meeting, with two walking events on the distance of 10,000m track men and women. The number of starters is not high, but in this holiday period,...
21/08/2019 - Sergey Bakulin (RUS): 8 years suspension for anomalies in biological passport (ABP case)
Eight years. From 3.4.2019 to 2.4.2027. This is the duration of the suspension imposed by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday 14.8.2019 to Sergey Bakulin for irregularities in his biological passport. Once ag...
20/08/2019 - Around Taihu 2019: entries open
Also this year the classic race walk competition Around Taihu will take place over three days. Here is the program: 20 october: Taihu lake resort: 20 km - 8:00 Course: Taihu International Convention Center &rarr...
18/08/2019 - Beeskow (GER): Linke and Zurek won the German Championships
Saturday, August 17th, the national track championships were held in Beeskow, GER. Usually in Germany these championships are held in conjunction with the Masters. As usual we only deal with those related to the senior activity. 10.000...
17/08/2019 - Manchester (GBR): Cameron Corbishley and Erika Kelly won 3.000m track walk at Manchester International
On Wednesday, August 14, a mixed race walk competition was held in Manchester as part of the England Athletics Manchester International Meeting. Scheduled at 17:05, only eight athletes were at the start (four men and four women) ...
15/08/2019 - Cork (IRL): Callum Wilkinson (10:59.00) wins 3.000m track walk at Cork Meeting
Last Saturday in Cork, Ireland, the 68th edition of the City Sports Athletics Meeting was held, which, as usual, also included a marching race on the distance of the 3.000m walk on track men This is a fairly usual distance for m...
14/08/2019 - Qujing (CHN): Victories of Niu Wenchao and Yang Jiayu
Hot weather and the altitude conditioned the events of the 4th stage of the Grand Prix of China that took place in Qujing in Yunnan. Obviously the athletes' performances were also affected. As usual, jury integrated by international judge...
13/08/2019 - Brian Hanley, Catherine B. Tucker e Athanassios Bissas: results of the study and survey of 2018
Last year Brian Hanley together with Catherine B. Tucker and Athanassios Bissas (Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK) had proposed to the judging body a survey through a series of online videos. The results of this stu...
12/08/2019 - 2019 Pan-American Games: reflections and controversies
Already on the occasion of the two races of the 20km of the Pan-American Games we had proposed to our readers a reading key of the red cards that had been sent by the jury. We wanted to do the same analysis of the past week today, but ...
11/08/2019 - Lima (PER): Claudio Villanueva (ECU) and Johana Ordonez (ECU) win the 50km of Pan-American Games
The last day of the Pan-American Athletics Games is reserved for the two 50km men and women. 50km men There are 14 the athletes at the start of 50km of the Pan American Games men representing nine Countries. ...
10/08/2019 - Qujing (CHN) - Fourth leg of the Chinese Race Walk Grand Prix
On August 14th, is expected a full day of race walking in Qujing in the Province of Yunnan in China. Qujing is a city in the South-West of China situated at an altitude of 1.853m with a population of over six million inhabitants of which over...
06/08/2019 - Saint-Etienne (FRA): Clemence Beretta and Kevin Campion are the new 2019 French Champions
We had guilty of neglecting the news of the 2019 Elite Championships in France that took place on a circuit around the Henri Lux stadium in Saint-Etienne (FRA). As in almost all of Europe in the National Championships, the two male and female...
06/08/2019 - Okinawa (JAP) - The 72nd national high school championships
The 72nd national high school championships were held in Japan on the island of Okinawa in southern Japan between Monday 5 August and Tuesday 6 August. The race walk revents took place on the distance of 5.000m track walk . Through our...
05/08/2019 - Evan Dunfee and Meryem Bekmez athletes of the month of July 2019
The choice of the athlete in July 2019 was to be entirely the result of the performances obtained during the University Games that were held in Naples (ITA) where it took place 20km, during the England Athletics Championships that were held in Bedfo...
05/08/2019 - Lima (PER): Lima (PER): Brian Daniel Pintado Alvares (ECU) wins Pan-American Games in 1:21:51
There are sixteen athletes at the start in a huge crowd along the barriers that delimit the course, despite the rainy day 20km men A group of ten athletes goes straight to the race: Caio De Sena Bonfim (BRA), Andres Eduardo Oliv...
04/08/2019 - Lima (PER): Sandra Lorena Arenas wins Pan-American Games in 1:28:03
Rainy day with high humidity. Huge crowd on the course to encourage athletes 20km women A group of seven athletes immediately leads the race: Erica Rocha De Sena (BRA), Ilse Ariadna Guerrero Rodarte (MEX), Sandra Lorena Arenas C...
02/08/2019 - Lima (PER): the medals in walking events in all editions of the Pan-American Games
On Saturday August 4th, as parto of the Pan-American Games, the two 20km race walk events will take place in Parque Kennedy in Lima. The departure will be at 8:00 am for the women's race and at 10:30 am for the men's race. The two rac...
01/08/2019 - The rankings of race walking in 2019 in Italy
On 30 July 2019 the IAAF published the new edition of the rankings. For the benefit of our Italian readers, we summarize below those of local athletes in the individual race walking events, both men and women 20km men &nb...
31/07/2019 - Des Moins (USA): Katie Burnett and Nick Christie USA champions 2019
The two walk events valid for the 10,000m track-walking distance in the USA Track and Fiels Championships were also held in Des Moins (USA) last Sunday. 10000m track walk women Katie Burnett immediately took the lead in the race...
28/07/2019 - Bressanone, Brixen (ITA): Gianluca Picchiottino and Eleonora Anna Giorgi are the new Italian Champions 2019
On Sunday morning, on the last day of the Italian Athletics Championships, the two road walk events on 10km men and women took place. On a rainy morning, the athletes raced on a 1km course (500m go & back) in the city center of Bre...
27/07/2019 - Baku (AZE): Jekaterina Mirotvortseva (EST) wins 5.000m track walk at Eyof
On Friday 26 July in Baku (AZE), the 5.000m U18 race walk event was held as part of the European Youth Festival (EYOF). The male race had opened the athletics competitions and took place on Monday 22 July. The temperature at the start of the ...
25/07/2019 - Bressanone, Brixen (ITA): week end with Individual Italian Championships in Athletics
The weekend ahead awaits two important races: - on 26 July at 20:15 (two hours of time difference with respect to Italy) in Baku (AZE) will take place the European Youth Olympic Festival women's race on the distance of 5.000m track walk - on the...
24/07/2019 - San José de Costarica (CRC): Glenda Morejon (ECU) and Cesar Cordova (MEX) new Pan-American U20 champions
On Saturday and Sunday (20 and 21/7), the 10,000m track walk valid for the XX Pan American Championships U20 took place in San José, Costa Rica. It was the occasion to see again Glenda Estefania Merejón (ECU) after the brilliant...
23/07/2019 - Gavle and Boras (SWE): Turkey on the roof of Europe
It is certainly incontrovertible that Turkey leaves the U23 European Championships and those of the U20 as a new leading nation in the European race walk. At a youth level in women we had already noticed it in the European Cup where th...
22/07/2019 - Baku (AZE): Gabriele Gamba wins 10.000m track walk of Eyof 2019
The first final of the day is: 10.000m trak walk U18 A group composed by Gabriele Gamba (ITA), Dimitri Durand (FRA), Mustafa Tekdal (TUR), Dzmitry Shmidt (BLR), Olsin Lane (IRL) and Paul McGrath (ESP) are the first...
21/07/2019 - Baku (AZE) - European Youth Olympic Festival - Male race walk event
Tomorrow in the evening (Baku time, AZE) the first of the two walking events of race walking will take place during the first day of the athletic competitions of the European Youth Olympic Festival 2019: the one reserved for men on 10.000m track wal...
21/07/2019 - Boras (SWE): Meryem Bekmez (TUR) and Mikita Kaliada (BLR) new European U20 champions
The two race walk events of the U20 European Championships. 10.000m track walk women "Veni, vidi, vici" said the ancient Romans in their territorial conquests. "Veni, vidi, vici" today fits totally with Meryem Bekme...
20/07/2019 - Lisbona (POR): Joao Vieira and Ana Cabecinha win the Portuguese Championships
The Lisbon University Stadium hosts the 2019 edition of the Individual Athletics Championships in Portugal. The two race walking events took place yesterday in the evening on the classic distance 10.000 track walk. 10.000m track...
19/07/2019 - Good luck Mustafa, continue in your work
Mustafa Akyavaş is a lucky man. Always smiling, always with both feet on the ground, always ready to listen. In short, he has the skills of a successful coach. If tomorrow morning Meryem Bekmez (TUR) were to repeat the success achieved by Ays...
18/07/2019 - The great refusal in Paris
The publication of the book by Francis Guilleux (FRA) "Le sport de la marcia en France et à travers le Monde" allowed us to know the details of the events that happened at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. We retrace them in t...
14/07/2019 - Gavle (SWE): Ayse Tekdal (TUR) and Vasiliy Mizinov (ANA) European U23 champions
At the time of lunch in Europe, the two 20km races valid for the title of European Champion U23 took place in Gavle (SWE). Both races were held with the new rule with a penalty on the third red card (in our case of 2 minutes as it is an event on 20k...
13/07/2019 - Ma Zhenxia birthday in altitude celebrated in 1:29:08 on 20km
The group of Chinese athletes who train in Italy under the guidance of Sandro Damilano held a coaching period in Livigno (1,850 Mt.) from 18 June to 14 July (23 days). As usual, at the end of his period the athletes performed a training test ...
12/07/2019 - Naples (ITA): Koki Ikeda (JPN) and Katie Hayward (AUS) win 20km of Universitary Games
A beautiful sunny day with the view of Mergellina acts as a choreography for the 20km that starts at 7:00. Men and women start together. 20km men Francesco Fortunato (ITA) immediately takes the lead as he starts to loop t...
11/07/2019 - Incredible mistake
Misinformation in sport is a fact that can happen. Particularly when the topic in question is that of a world record. But we would never have believed that an organization like that of the 2019 University Games in Naples (ITA) published the s...
10/07/2019 - Boras (SWE): European U20 Championships
The entry list of the U20 European Championships that will be held in Boras (SWE) from 18 July 2019 to 21 July 2019 has been published. The two eace walk events on the 10.000m track distance will take place on Sunday 14 July 2019 at the follo...
09/07/2019 - Queretaro (MEX): NACAC U18 and U23 Championships
In Queretaro, a city based in Mexico at 1,800 meters above sea level was held, from 5 to 7 July the NACAC (North America, Central and Caribbean) Championships for categories U18 and U23. The race walk events took place on Friday's program...
09/07/2019 - Kamloops (CAN): new Canadian record on 10.000m track walk byi Evan Dunfee
On Sunday 7 July, during the British Columbia Championships in Canada, Evan Dunfee (CAN) achieved Canada's new national record. Evan Dunfee got the performance of 38:54.20. The previous record of 39:21.30 always belonged to Evan Du...
08/07/2019 - Granollers (ESP): Eloy Homero Gallent and Mireia Urrutia Herrera Spanish U20 Champions
Interesting weekend of race walking in Spain where the Spanish U20 Championships took place in Granollers (ESP), with the two walking events on the 10,000m track distance held: - July 6 at 9:30 for men - July 7 at 9:30 the female one. ...
02/07/2019 - Gavle(SWE): European U23 Championships
The entry list of U23 European Championships in Gavle (SWE) from 11 July 2019 to 14 July 2019 has been published. The two 20km events will take place on Sunday 14 July 2019 at the following times: - 12:15 - 20km women - 14:15 - 20km men ...
01/07/2019 - Leeds (GBR): Callum Wilkinson and Heater Lewis win the British Grand Prix of Race Walking
On a not easy course that has a difference in altitude of about twenty meters in every one kilometer lap, the British Grand Prix of Race Walking 20km takes place on Sunday 30 June. The race took place in a fairly cool morning with a temperature arou...
30/06/2019 - Tarragona (ESP): Jose Manuel Perez Rubio and Marina Pena Alonso new U23 Spanish Champions
The Spanish U23 Championships were held in Tarragona (ESP) the weekend with the two races spreading over the 10,000m distance on the track. 10.000m track walk U23 men Twelve athletes at the start. The race lives in particular in...
29/06/2019 - Bedford (GBR): new record of Callum Wilkinson in U23 Championships
England Athletics U20 and U23 Championships took place in Bedford, GBR. The race races on the distance of 10,000m on the track took place all on 23.6.2019. 10.000m track walk U23 men Victory and great result of Callum Wil...
28/06/2019 - Toshikazu Yamanishi and Glenda Morejon athletes of the month of June 2019
The choice of the athlete of the month of June 2019 is entirely part of the results of La Coruna (ESP) where a 20km valid for the IAAF Challenge took place. Even in Russia, where the Russian road walking Championships took place in Che...
27/06/2019 - Townsville (AUS): Jemima Montag and Rhydian Cowley won the Oceanian Championships
The 2019 Oceania Championshis are running in Townsville (AUS) and were well reported byTim Erickson on his issue Heel and Toe mumber 39 page 10 dated 25 June 2019 Both Open 10,000m walks were part of the 2019 IAAF Race Walking Challenge...
26/06/2019 - Katerini (GRE): Greek U20 Championships - Victories of Fiaska and Mortzakis
On Saturday 22 and 23 of June in Katerini (GRE) 450 km north of Athens, under the holly mountain of ancient Greece Olympus taken ...
26/06/2019 - Nairobi hosts the seminar ed exam of Area RWJ for Africa
A seminar and examinations of the African continent for Area Race Walk Judges (Level 2) are underway in Nairobi, KEN. The exams organized by the African Confederation of Athletics have as lecturers Jean Pierre Dahm (FRA), a member of the IAAF...
24/06/2019 - Sumy (UKR): Aliaksandr Liakhovich and Mariya Filiuk are the winner of Ukrainian 20km Championships
The Ukrainian national championships of race walk took place on 16.6.2019 in Sumy (UKR). The day was very hot and the results were affected. 20km men Twenty-one athletes at the start including those of the U23 category. H...
23/06/2019 - Kyoto (JPN): the 72nd edition of Western Japanese Intercollege Athletics Championships
The important and interesting race walking activity in Japan continues with the support of Schools and Universities. In La Coruna together with some Italian coaches we had a long conversation with Koji Hoga Miura to whom we asked to explain t...
23/06/2019 - Mielec (POL): Katarzyna Zdzieblo e Artur Brzozowski win the 2019 Polish Championships on 20km
The 20km Polish Open Championships took place yesterday in Mielec (POL) city at about 180km east of Krakow. 20km women Fifteen athletes at the start of the open race. Victory to Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) in 1: 34.48 Second...
22/06/2019 - Agropoli (ITA): Gabriele Gamba wins the U18 Italian Championships
The 10,000m race of U18 boys starts with a delay of about ten minutes. The race takes place as expected for the first 5,000m with the trio of favorites in the lead to set the pace. Gabriele Gamba (ITA) is almost always the leader, while Danie...
21/06/2019 - Budapest (HUN): Venyercsan and Madarasz won the 35th Honved Kupa
The 35th edition of the Honved Kupa on track was held yesterday in Budapest, which, as usual, also includes two marching races on the track of 5,000m on the track for men and women. 5.000m track walk men Victory to Bence Barnaba...
21/06/2019 - Agropoli (ITA): Alexandrina Mihai surprisingly wins U18 girls championships
The race of 5.000m U18 girls starts on time. Ate the start 36 athletes. Immediately in the lead the trio of favorites, Martina Casiraghi (ITA), Alexandrina Mihai (ITA) and Alessia Titone (ITA). For about 1,000m the three walk in single file w...
20/06/2019 - Saransk (RUS): security service in the school of Olympic preparation
The working meeting between the RusAF president Dmitriy Shlyakhtin, the Head of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov and the Mordovia’s sport minister Aleksandr Savilov took place on June 20 in Saransk. Participants discussed the situation in...
19/06/2019 - Agropoli (ITA): Friday and Saturday the U18 Individual Championships
Weekend dedicated to Individual U18 Championships. Agropoli will host the most important event of the season at U18 level, the one in which the titles of Italian Champion will be distributed. The race races will take place as usual, on the track, on...
16/06/2019 - Cheboksary (RUS): Klavdiya Afanasiyeva 3:57:07 on 50km
The Russian Walk Championships took place in Cheboksary 50km women Klavdiya Afanasiyeva (RUS), to whom the status of ANA was recently revoked by the IAAF, won the 50km women obtaining a stratospheric time of 3:57:07. ...
15/06/2019 - Firenze (ITA): in Clubs Championships victories of Trapletti and Fortunato
The Gold Final of Florence is the one that presents the most interesting athletes. They start with about twenty minutes of delay (the scheduled departure was 20:10) on a beautiful evening in a stadium, however, almost empty with only the expe...
14/06/2019 - In Italy weekends with the finals of the national championships for clubs
This weekend will see in Italy the compoetitions for the national finals of the Italian Clubs Championships. The most important final is the one in Florence in which the title of Italian Champion for Clubs is awarded. 10.000m tr...
13/06/2019 - Massimo Stano interviewed by Marcia dal Mondo
The athlete of the day in Italy is Massimo Stano. Marcia dal Mondo interviewed him. When did you start with athletics? It all started when I was five years old, I liked to do speed races between 2 flights of stairs, more ...
12/06/2019 - La Fidal recognizes Massimo Stano's time in La Coruna as Italian record
The chrono of 1:17:45 obtained last Saturday by Massimo Stano in La Coruna, is the absolute Italian record of 20km of march. With a resolution signed this morning (Jun 11) by FIdal President, Alfio Giomi, all the results obtained by Alex Schwazer as...
11/06/2019 - Rieti (ITA): Italian U20 and U23 Championships
Weekend of championships also in Italy where the Individual Italian Championships on Track U20 and U23 took place in Rieti. The U20 competitions were held with the Rule of the Penalty Zone, while those U23 with the traditional rule. 10...
11/06/2019 - Yohann Diniz and Eleonora Giorgi athletes of the month of 2019
The choice of the athlete in May 2019 is almost entirely the result of competitions in Taicang (CHN) where the selection of China was held for the 20km and the IAAF Challenge and Alytus (LTU) which hosted the European Cup of Race Walk. &n...
10/06/2019 - The considerations of Marcia dal Mondo on La Coruna 2019
This year's La Coruna competition deserves some personal and particular considerations. World heritage plate for race walk As already known, the IAAF has awarded La Coruna with the World He...
09/06/2019 - La Coruna (ESP): the incredible day of glory of a debutante
This report is taken by Emeterio Valiente for the IAAF Ecuador’s Glenda Morejon made a major breakthrough on Saturday (8) by taking a surprise victory at the Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha, the Spanish leg of the 2019 IAAF Race Wal...
05/06/2019 - Sandro Damilano awarded by the China Government
Yesterday Sandro Damilano was honored by the President of the Chinese Federation, Yu Hong Chen, with the Government of China award, for the results obtained in the Olympic Games 2012 - 2016. This prestigious award given by the Presiden...
04/06/2019 - Rieti (ITA): Friday and Saturday the U20 and U23 track walk Italian Championships
Weekend of Italian Championships in Rieti. The U20 and U23 Individual Championships are in turn with the walking races scheduled for the following days: Friday 7 June at 19.40: 10,000m U20 / U23 track walk men Saturday 8 June 9:30: 10.000m U2...
03/06/2019 - Ken Mattews (GBR) Olympic champion in 20km in Tokyo passed away
The following obituary has been penned by Dave Ainsworth (GBR) So sorry to report our GB's last surviving Olympic race walking Gold medallist (1964 Tokyo 20 Kilometres' Walk) has passed-on. This happened Sunday evening (2nd June) in W...
02/06/2019 - Chinese catwalk in Mondovì to the RegionalClubs Championships Piedmont in Italy
As every year the athletes of the national team of China in training in Saluzzo (ITA) are licensed for insurance reasons with some loclal clubes, and for this reason the can participate in some competitions local races. This allows them...
30/05/2019 - Japan Team to Doha 2019
The Japanese athletics federation (JAAF) has communicated the list of athletes who will participate to the Doha 2019 World Championships. Below is the list of entries (by clicking on the link to, the IAAF profiles will open) and with their pa...
28/05/2019 - The likely male protagonists in La Coruna
A number of participants like the one in La Coruna in the men's race was rarely seen in the IAAF Challenge competitions. If the day will not play up we will see a couple of hours of good high-level race walk. It is not excluded that even ...
27/05/2019 - A dream of late spring in Coruna
Saturday, June 8, 2019, in the fresh afternoon of La Coruna, sunbeams appear. Since morning the variability had been the master, and the clouds had been wiped out as usual. The novelty of this year is the fact that the departure of women is anticipa...
26/05/2019 - Lima (PER): The South American championships on the day of the earthquake
The 51st South American Mayores Championships were held this weekend at the Videna stadium in Lima. The tests of these championships were particularly interesting and valid as "test events" of the next Pan-American Games that will t...
26/05/2019 - Brixen (ITA): Gabriele Gamba leads the world U18 list of the season 2019
This morning in Bressanone on the occasion of the traditional Brixia Trophy, an inter-regional U18 event open to foreign athletes too, Gabriele Gamba (ITA) has improved his personal best on the distance of 5.000m track walk with the time of 21:23.23...
25/05/2019 - Decided the Italian team to Doha 2019
The race walking team that will participate in the Doha World Championships was presented in the last Fidal Federal Council as per proposal of Head Coach Antonio La Torre. 50km men Michele Antonelli Personal best &...
24/05/2019 - Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX): will appeal to CAS/TAS
In an interview with El Tiempo digital.mx, the Mexican walker Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez returns to the topic of her doping ban recently confirmed by the FMA. The athlete declares that "I have a biological passport above 10 or 12 ch...
23/05/2019 - Tallinn 2015 Europeans U23: Maria Ponomareva (RUS) banned four years for doping, bronze to Laura Garcia-Caro (ESP)
Now it's official. Mariya Ponomareva Russian walker was disqualified for violating the rules of doping. The announcement comes directly from RusAtletics (Federation of Russia) which declares to comply with the TAS/CAS decision of April 11...
22/05/2019 - La Coruna preview
The President of the Federacion Galega de Atletismo, Isidoro Hornillos and the creator of the Cantones de La Coruna, Sergio Vasques will probably not believe them this year, but the "parterre de roi" designed by their collaborator Dolores ...
20/05/2019 - Rocroi 19 May 1643: 376 years later
Who knows how the Gran Condè, Luigi II of Bordone, slept after the historic battle of Rocroi on May 19, 1643 ? Our personal friend Antonio La Torre does not think bad for us if today Marcia dal Mondo exactly 376 years later humbly asks...
19/05/2019 - 20km Coppa Europa - victories by Perseus Karlstrom and Zivilé Vaiciukeviciute
The afternoon begins with the 20km men A group of about fifteen immediately goes to the head At 5km athltes pass in the following order: Tom Bosworth continues on his pace, also passing ...
19/05/2019 - 10km European U20 Cup - vicories by Riccardo Orsoni (ITA) and Meryem Bekmez (TUR)
The two U20 races. 10km U20 men At the 5km mark Lukas Niedzialek (POL) was leading the race and was the favorite and passed in 21:17. You have a small advantage of 3 "on Pedro Gonesa (ESP) passing in 21:20 together with Ric...
19/05/2019 - 50km European Cup - victories of Yohnn Diniz and Eleonora Giorgi
A beautiful sunny day that promises to be the day of today's march with the European Cup. The temperature is around 16° Celsius, with the humidity reaching an excellent 56% and with a slight north-west wind variable between 5 and 10m/...
18/05/2019 - Kumagaya (JPN): great times for Okada and Suzuki on track
Morning of records today in Kumagaya in Saitama prefecture, about seventy kilometers north-west of Tokyo. On a cloudy day, but with a cool temperature, we witnessed two great performances by athletes from Japan over the distance of 5,000 mete...
17/05/2019 - IAAF denied ANA status to five Russian walkers
On the eve of the European Race Walking Cup, five walkers were denied the status of Neutral Athlete (ANA), condition for participating in the European Cup itself., The Russian agency TASS informs that the five athletes are: Klavdiya Af...
17/05/2019 - Alythus (LTU): the predictions of two men's races on the eve
The 20km men's march presents a very open race and there is a lot of similarity between the best performances of the season between the field of 56 registered athletes .. 20km men For the team victory, our favorite is...
17/05/2019 - Alythus (LTU): the predictions of two women's races on the eve
This time the European Athletics presents Italy women (Antonella Palmisano in 20km and Eleonora Anna Giorgi in 50km) as the favorite for the double gold in the 20km and 50km road walk. Certainly the two Italian athletes are to be counted in t...
16/05/2019 - Patra (GRE): 3rd Coffebrands race walking meeting
In the beautifull city of Patra, 350km west of Athens, took place the 3rd Coffebrands race walking festival. The festival being organis...
11/05/2019 - Taicang (CHN): Vicories by Wang Kaihua (CHN) and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN)
iThe stage of the Taicang IAAF Challenge took place on a very hot day. Two hard-fought races. The 7th round of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Taicang took place this morning in a sunny and very humid day. If the organizers wanted the athlet...
11/05/2019 - Distance duel between Emiliano Brigante and Daniele Breda in U18 boys
The progress and progression of Daniele Breda and Emiliano Brigante does not stop. This evening in Pordenone (ITA) in the regional phase of the Company Championships he stopped the clock at 10,000m on rack walk at the excellent mark of 44:33....
10/05/2019 - Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX): four years of ineligibility from 16.11.2018
The presence of a prohibited substance (Epitrenbolone - article 2.1) and use of a prohibited substance/method (Trenbolone - article 2.2) cost in the first instance a disqualification of 4 years (from 16.11.2018) to Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Romero (M...
09/05/2019 - Taicang (CHN): preview
On Saturday 11 May in Taicang (China) the 7th race valid for the IAAF Race Walking Challenge will take place. Two races in the program the 20km men and the 20km women. Taicang, located in Jangsu province, is about 150 km away from Shanghai. The city...
06/05/2019 - Let's not lose a budding champion.
Last Sunday in the sun of Mariano Comense we had witnessed another disqualification, unfortunately due and deserved, by a young U18. One of those that a couple of years ago had blasted one of the young walkers' coach Ruggero Sala on the stands o...
03/05/2019 - Brest (BLR): Belarus race walking cup
Saturday, April 27th the Belorussian race walking Cup was held in Brest (BLR) which allowed the selection of the Belarusian team for the Alytus European Cup (LTU). The participation was intense as in addition to the European Cup competitions ...
02/05/2019 - The most difficult choice
Preliminary remarks Last Sunday in Mariano Comense we were "pulled by the jacket" in a discussion that was more familiar than sporting. The argumentu: if a parent must continue to train his child when the child needs a "qualita...
01/05/2019 - Alytus (LTU): Italy Team for European Race Walking Cup
The technical director of the national teams Antonio La Torre announced the team for the European Race Walking Cup in Alytus (Lithuania) scheduled for Sunday 19 May. There will be 22 Italians involved in the continental event, 11 men and 11 women. &...
01/05/2019 - Békéscsaba (HUN): Yerko Araya (CHI) and Viktoria Madarász (HUN) won the 20km
Last Sunday (28/4) the Hungarian national championships 20km road walk took place in Békéscsaba. The most important test of the 20km was open. 20km men Victory for Yerko Araya (CHI) who finished the race in ...
30/04/2019 - Bristonas (LTU): Paulius Juozaitis and Austeja Kavaliauskaite won U20 Baltic Championships
Saturday, April 27th the 33rd edition of the Race Walk Meeting dedicated to Antanas Kazevic Mikenas (LTU) was held in Bristonas (LTU), the walker who in the 1956 edition of the Olympic Games in Melbourne obtained the silver medal in 1:32:03 behind L...
29/04/2019 - Roma (ITA): world-wide results for Stano and Palmisano on 10.000 track walk
The renovated Stadio delle Terme in Rome dedicated to the late sports journalist Paolo Rosi could not have been better inaugurated. In this ancient and beautiful facility with the renewed runway the concentration center of Centro Italia was h...
26/04/2019 - Yusuke Suzuki and Eleonora Giorgi athletes of the month of April 2019
The choice of the athlete in April 2019 is almost entirely the result of competitions that took place in the first half of the month. It started with Rio Maior (POR) where in the 20km men (of women we will talk later) five athletes, although ...
24/04/2019 - Mizuno Award to Fumio Imamura (JPN)
The Mizuno Sport Foundation together with the Japan Sport Association and the Japan Olympic Committee honored the great sower of the march in Japan. Yesterday April 23 in a solemn ceremony in Tokyo, Fumio Imamura was awarded for his co...
23/04/2019 - Lazaro Cardenas (MEX): In 50km victories of Isaac Palma (MEX) and Evelyn Inga (PER)
Even on Sunday morning, as in Saturday's races, the climatic conditions in Lazaro Cardenas (MEX) were not ideal for a 50km walk with high temperature and humidity. However at the beginning (7:50) at the start there were 27 men and 16 women. &nbs...
22/04/2019 - Alexandropoulis (GRE): Balkan Championships of 20km
On Saturday 20/4/2019 , the AΒΑF and the Greek athletic Federation SEGAS, with the colaboration of the perfecture of Evros and the municipaly&...
21/04/2019 - Lazaro Cardenas (MEX): Victories of Erica de Sena (BRA) and Perseus Karlstrom (SWE)
Lazaro Cardenas in Michoacan region hosted the Copa Panamericana de Marcha 2019 which was also valid ad a leg of the IAAF Challenge. 20km women Forty-five athletes at the start on a sunny day. Two athletes immediately go ...
14/04/2019 - Wajima (JPN): Second day of 103rd 50km Japan Championships
We have no idea how many people in February 2016 would have bet a few yen on a return of Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) to raceing. The world record holder of the 20km (1:16:36) after the beautiful race of the record in Nomi on Mar. 15, 2015 had not fin...
13/04/2019 - Wajima (JPN): First day of 103rd 50km Japan Championships
A beautiful sunny day in April hosted the first of two days dedicated to the 103rd Japan 50km Championship today in Wajima. Today the 10km distance races valid also for the 58th edition of the All Japan U20 were held. 10km women...
08/04/2019 - Our point of view
When a specialist web-site gets in a single day a number of visits equal to 1.128 that turns out to be the historical maximum since 2006 year in which Marcia dal Mondo (then Marcia Italiana) was born, one wonders if the appreciation for the work don...
07/04/2019 - Rio Maior (POR): Victories of Eider Arevalo and Qieyang Shenjie
The 2019 edition of the Grand Prix de Rio Maior saw the victories that were predicted on the eve of the day: in women Qieyang Shejie (CHN) and men Eider Arevalo (COL). 20km women Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) goes immediately in front of the r...
06/04/2019 - Pdebrady (CZE): Karla Serrano (MEX) and Cesar Cordova (MEX) win in the U20s
In the morning of Podebrady the day began with the U18 category races on 5km, both male and female, which were followed by the races reserved for the masters, always on the distance of 5km. Subsequently the U20 races started on the 10km dista...
06/04/2019 - Podebrady (CZE): Giorgi and Mizinov are the winners of 20km
The two senior races on the 20km. 20km women Let's say that there was no history. Eleonora Anna Giorgi started in the lead and has not been reached yet. These are his split times if first 5km: - 1km: 4:25 - 2Km: 8:51 ...
05/04/2019 - Wajima (JPN): the selection of the Japan team in the 50km for Doha is approaching
The king is dead, long life the king. Never before has this traditional expression come down to our days from medieval France from the far 1422 when the French king Charles VI died, could be applied to our "little ancient world" of ...
05/04/2019 - Sydney (AUS): Dane Bird-Smith and Katie Hayward Australian champions on track
Yesterday in the late Australian evening, the fifth session of the Australian track championships ended with the two race walking events. The two race races took place at 20:10 on the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Center track. 1...
04/04/2019 - La Coruna - IAAF World Heritage Plate
The International Grand Prix of Race Walking Cantones de La Corunna - GP Sergio Vazquez was honored Friday with the IAAF World Heritage Plate. The president of the IAAF, Sebastian Coe, acknowledged the competition, and five more, at the IAAF meeting...
03/04/2019 - Podebrady (CZE): the classic European race now in its 87th edition
Saturday 6 April will also take place the classic match in Podebrady, in the Czech Republic, where they will challenge the teams of France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hungary, in addition to the hosts. The match at the beginning of spri...
02/04/2019 - Rio Maior (POR): a large parterre of athletes
Next Saturday the 28th edition of the Grand Prix Internacional de Rio Maior will take place, which for the 17th time will be valid as one of the stages of the Marcia IAAF Challenge. We will never tire of saying thanks to Jorge Miguel the Ines...
01/04/2019 - Verano Brianza (ITA): the conference for the 50th anniversary of the Frigerio Trophy
A day entirely dedicated to race walk is the one that took place in Verano Brianza at the Clinical University Institute on Saturday 30th March 2019. It was a conference of national interest, where about eighty coaches, athletes and judges were able ...
31/03/2019 - Interview with Eleonora Dominici's coaches
With the victory and the splendid result obtained in Cassino (ITA) on March 24, 2019 Eleonora Dominici became the ninth Italian athlete "all time" on the distance (in terms of performances her is the 24th all time ). Marcia dal Mond...
29/03/2019 - Cesar Moreno Bravo (MEX): today celebrates 85 year
Usually Marcia dal Mondo does not have the habit of remembering the birthdays of athletes, and people of a certain importance who are connected to the world of race walking. But today we feel the need to make an exception. Cesar Moreno...
27/03/2019 - Saturday April 6: the classics of Rio Maior (POR) and Podebrady (CZE)
Saturday 6 April 2019 the international activity of race walking in Europe starts again. Start again with the 28th edition of the Grand Prix Internacional de Rio Maior, which for the 17th time will be valid as one of the stages of the ...
26/03/2019 - Toshikazu Yamanishi and Liu Hong athletes of the month of March 2019
As we prepare for the choice of the best athlete in March 2019, we cannot help but notice that this month of March 2019 was a month to frame. Few times we remember a series of competitions with results in succession such as to make it seem a great a...
24/03/2019 - Cassino (ITA): Francesco Fortunato and Eleonora Dominici (great mark) are the new Italian champions of 20km
Beautiful sunny day that welcomes the walkers for the Italian 20km Individual Championship. 20km men Federico Tontodonati (ITA) goes straight to the head. He is followed a few meters by Francesco Fortunato (ITA), And...
24/03/2019 - Megara (GRE): National Greek U23 Championships
Today Sunday March 24, in the Varea Beach,in the historic city of Megara, 50km west on Athens, took place the national race walk championship U23 and the ...
23/03/2019 - Dudince (SVK): Havard Haukenes (NOR) and Maria Czakova (SVK) are the winners of 50km
A beautiful sunny day, as expected, was a corollary to Dudince's 50km road walk. 50km men A group of seven athletes including all the best immediately goes to lead: Karl Junghannss (GER), Aleksi Oyaka (FIN), Veli-Matt...
23/03/2019 - Dudince (SVK): Arthur Mastianica (LTU) and Sandra Viviana Galvis (SVK) are the winners of 20km
In the afternoon both 20km 20km men The three athletes from Mexico who together with Stefano Chiesa (ITA) were credited with the best times are not present at the start. For the Italian it promises to be a chance for a victory. ...
22/03/2019 - Mosca 2013: Disqualified for doping Ivanov (RUS), gold to Chen Ding (CHN)
Russian race walker Alexandr Ivanov has been disqualified for three years for doping and is set to be stripped of his gold medal at the 2013 world championships in Moscow, the Russian athletics federation said on Friday. Russia originally top...
22/03/2019 - Alegna Gonzalez (MEX) will not compete in Pan American Games in Lima
Alegna Gonzalez will not compete in the Pan American Games of Lima 2019 and the World Athletics Championships in Doha 2019 to satisfy her physiological development and look for the qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next year. Her...
21/03/2019 - Australia (AUS): The selection to Doha 2019 is decided
The Doha World Championships are still far away, but the selections are already underway. Australia is one of the nations that have already set the first athletes to participate and are: Dane Bird-Smith (20km men); Katie Hayward and Jemima Mo...
21/03/2019 - Cassino (ITA): Sunday the 20km Italian Championships
Sunday, March 24th Cassino (ITA) will host the Italian Championship of the 20km road walk. In total there will be 227 participants, including 34 men and 21 women for the 20 km senior and promises. The juniors will be engaged on the distance o...
20/03/2019 - Dudince (SVK): Saturday the 38th edition of 50km
Saturday, March 23, 2019 the 2019 edition of the Dudinská päťdesiatka returns to talk about race walking, one of the few international classic 50km left alive, and a race that every year reserves hints of interest for the walkers and for...
19/03/2019 - Epinal (FRA): Great mark by Yohann Diniz (FRA) on 35km
On Sunday, the French National Championships were also held in France. They hosted Epinal, city halfway between Nancy (FRA) and Basel (SUI) with the following program - 50km and 35km men and women: 8.00 - 20km men: 8:15am - 20km women: 10:15 am &nbs...
18/03/2019 - Tustin (USA): victories of Tom Bosworth (GBR) and Rachel Seaman (USA)
On Sunday 17 March 2019 the 20km race walk championships were also valid as Trials for the Pan-American Cup. The usual participation of US athletes this time was joined by Tom Bosworth (GBR), Evan Dunfee (CAN) and Andreas Gustafsson (USA). &n...
17/03/2019 - Nomi (JPN): Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN - 1:17:15) and Ma Zhenxia (CHN - 1:28:28) are the winners of 20km Asian Championships
A fairly cold morning (at the start it was only 3° Celsius) with an annoying drizzle and an equally annoying wind spoiled the races: 20km Asian Championships 20km men We had alr...
17/03/2019 - Oropesa del Mar (ESP): Victories of Miguel Angel Lopez and Maria Perez
A beautiful day in Oropesa del Mar in the Valencia community in Spain hosted the 2019 edition of the 20km Spanish Championship. 20km men The favorites of the race, Diego Garcia (ESP), Alvaro Martin (ESP), Alberto Amezcua (ESP) a...
17/03/2019 - Lugano (SUI): Victories of Marius Ziukas (LTU) and Eleonora Anna Giorgi (ITA)
The third important race of the day was the 16th edition of the Mario Albisetti Memorial in Lugano. Certainly the numbers were not up to the Spanish Championships, let alone the Asian and All Japan ones, but the European calendar is so dense ...
15/03/2019 - Sucua (ECU): Ecuador's race walk championships
Saturday March 9, 2019 Sucua (ECU) hosted the Ecuadorian walking championship for the fifth time in a row. With delegations from fifteen provinces and a hundred athletes from all over the country, many of whom are known in South America and a...
14/03/2019 - Oropesa de Mar (ESP): LXXI Spanish Championship of 20km
The third important race on Sunday March 17, is the LXXI Spanish Championship of 20km which will take place in Oropesa de Mar about sixty kilometers north of Valencia in Spain. Together with the Spanish Championship will also take place the e...
14/03/2019 - Arequipa (PER): Kimberly Garcia and César Rodríguez National Champions of Perù in 20km
The National Championships of Peru were held on Sunday March 10, in Arequipa (PER). Arequipa is a city in southern Peru located at an altitude similar to that of Mexico City (2,300m above sea level). Some athletes from Bolivia also participat...
14/03/2019 - Duitama Boyaca (COL): José Leonardo Montana, Jhon Alexander Castaneda Angulo and Sandra Viviana Galvis Gomez won Colombian Championshps
Last Saturday was the opportunity for the Athletic Federation of Colombia to honor a well-known soldier who died on January 21st, 2012: Fernando Rozo. The occasion was offered by the celebration of the 200 years of activity of the Colombian n...
13/03/2019 - Lugano (SUI): Sunday the 16th Memorial Mario Albisetti
Sunday, March 17th will be a great day for the world race walk. We will start when it will still be night in Europe with the 20km Asian Championships in Nomi (JPN) of which we have already made the presentation. In the European morning, the 1...
12/03/2019 - Nomi (JPN): Sunday the 20km Asian Championships and the University championships of Japan
Sunday, March 17, 2018, the 43rd Asian Championships of 20km will be held in Nomi (JPN). The annual competition will see the representatives of fifteen countries in the men's category and 12 countries in the women's category confront ...
11/03/2019 - How much is the record of Liu Hong in the history of athletics
How much is worth in the women's athletics the prestigious world record that yesterday Liu Hong obtained in Huangshan (CHN) in the 50km race walk breaking down the barrier of 4:00:00 hours and setting it at 3:59:15. The tables in use at t...
11/03/2019 - IAAF Council decisions
(from the IAAF web-site) The IAAF Council agreed in principle with the Race Walking Committee’s proposal to change the competition programme for race walking in order to protect and promote the discipline in major international champion...
10/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): 30km U20 and two U18 events
The last three races of the two days of Huangshan are the 30km U20 men, the 10km U18 boys and the 5km U18 girls. 30km U20 men At the start of present in 33, but what really surprises is that among the starters there are also ath...
10/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): the 20km are won by Wang Kaihua (1:19:01) and Qieyang Shenjie (1:25:37)
The second day of the Grand Prix of Huangshan (CHN) opens with 20km of men, to which follows the 20 km of women. 20km men There are in 121 at the starting line. With numbers like this, which is the result of a race, it is...
09/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): U20 races
The program of the first day at Huangshan (CHN) also included the two 10km for the U20 at the following hours: 14.30: 10km U20 men 15.30: 10km U20 women 10km U20 road walk men All the entered athletes of the eve show up a...
09/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): Liu Hong makes the history - 50km in 3:59:15
Perhaps the IAAF Council will decide tomorrow to propose to the IOC the 30km instead of 50km, but today is a historic day that gives a sense of sport: citius, altius, fortius. The best answer the athletes can give. On the other hand we had co...
09/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): great results in 50km men; victory to Wang Qin in 3:38:02
The morning of Huangshan (CHN) ideal for walking (7° on departure and 11° on arrival, always under a light rain) not only has reserved a long-awaited record of the historical world in the 50km women, but also of great perfor...
08/03/2019 - Melbourne (AUS): Karlstrom obtains the new Swedish record on 5.000m track walk (18:32.56)
Today the AV Coles State T&F Chanpionships have started in Melbourne (AUS) at Lakeside Stadium. Today's evening session was also dedicated to walking races. As usual in Australia, the walking events are open and therefore also to athl...
07/03/2019 - Huangshan (CHN): great wait for the 50km women
In Huangshan, a city in the Anhui province of eastern China, famous for its scenic beauty where the Huangshan mountains are located, which in 1990 were included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Saturday and Sunday will take place the trad...
06/03/2019 - Minsk (BLR): Pedro Conesa (ESP) and Meryem Bekmez (TUR) won the international match
The last weekend of February saw in Misk (BLR) the dispute of an international U20 meeting between: Belarus, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and some Autorized neutral Athlete. Both the men&...
05/03/2019 - Halle (GER): Christopher Linke and Teresa Zurek German indoor champions
On Friday, March 1st 2019, the Master Championships of Germany were held as Halle (GER). As usual, these Championships are matched with walking events valid for the Indoor Absolute Champion title of Germany. 5.000m indoor walk m...
03/03/2019 - Izmir (TUR): Salih Korkmaz (TUR) and Ayse Tekdal (TUR) won the 20km of Turkish Championships
This morning in Izmir Inciralti (TUR) the 20km and 35km Turkey championships were held with races on the 10km for U20 and U18. For the first time in Turkey she was invited to judge an international jury of three judges in order to make the ma...
02/03/2019 - Ancona (ITA): Orsoni and Lacatus won in ITA-FRA match
Two beautiful walking events were held at the Palaindor of Ancona, which hosted the international ITA-FRA match. 5.000m indoor walk men The longest race of the day ends in the sprint. In 5000 walk Riccardo Orsoni place a formidab...
01/03/2019 - China - Zhang Lin banned two years positive to clostebol
In the last February release on the doping violations of the Athletics Integrity Unit, along with the disqualification of the Ukrainian Dmytrenko there was also another walker: the Chinese Zhang Lin. The Chinese athlete has been suspended due...
28/02/2019 - Ruslan Dmytrenko (UKR) disqualified for doping until 4.5.2020; canceled the results from 14.8.2009 to 3.8.2012
In the February 2019 report, issued yesterday Feb. 27, 2019, the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit published an additional list of athletes subject to disqualification for doping events. Among them we find the final decision of the case of...
27/02/2019 - Ancona (ITA): Saturday March 2, ITA-FRA U20
On Saturday 2 March 2019 the traditional triangular U20 meeting between ITA-FRA-GER will take place at the Palaindoor in Ancona. Unfortunately, this year Germany, it would seem for budget problems, will not be present at the meeting, which wi...
27/02/2019 - Guatemala City (GUA): The 7th race walking championships of Centro-America
On Sunday, the 7th Central American Championships of March were held in Guatemala City. Below the most important results. 20km women Victory for Maritza Rafaela Poncio (GUA) in 1:39:13 Second place for Yasury Betzaida Palacios S...
26/02/2019 - Eiki Takahashi and Raquel Gonzalez athletes of the month of february 2019
Usually the month of February is a month in which the indoor activity is the king, and even so it was in 2019. Also this year the road activity has had during its February peaks of interest. It started with the Australian and Oceania C...
20/02/2019 - Torun (POL): Agnieszka Szwarnog and Dawid Tomala new Polish indoor champions
Last weekend also in Poland the Indoor National Championships took place. The city that hosted them was Torun, the beautiful city on the Vistula river that saw the birth (1.501) of Nicolaus Copernicus, great Polish astronomer and mathematicia...
19/02/2019 - Sochi (RUS): The usual great time of Elena Lashmanova (1:24:31) and the victory of Vasily Mizinov - Klavdiya Afanasyeva on 35km: 2:38:24
This weekend was not only competing in the indoor and in Kobe (JPN) for the Japanese Championships. Also in Russia, as usual in Sochi, the traditional Russian winter championships took place on the race track from 17 to 18 February. &n...
19/02/2019 - Koji Hoga Miura (JPN): The crisis on race walking in major competitions
We received a long and interesting analysis of the moment of race walking from Koji Hoga Miura (JPN), with particular attention to the debate about 50km. Koji Hoga Miura is a well-known biomechanical of Japan who collaborates with the team of...
18/02/2019 - Bragança Paulista (BRA): Viviane Santana Lyra and Claudio Richardson Vitoria Campelo dos Santos win the 50km of the Brazil Cup
Bragança Paulista has hosted the Brazil Cup of 50km of race walk at a time unthinkable for Europeans. The departure was given at 6.30 for men and 6.45 for women, but what helped the athletes a little was the deadline for the summer time at mi...
18/02/2019 - Miramas (FRA): Gabriel Bordier et Clemence Beretta indoor champions of France - Updated Indoor list of season 2018/2019
Indoor Championships also on the weekend in France at Miramas Metropole. 3.000m indoor women Victory for Clemence Beretta (FRA) in 12:58.35 Second place for Marine Quennehen (FRA) in 13:17.84 Third place for Loanie Cellard (FRA)...
18/02/2019 - Chennai (IND): Indian national Championships, selection to Doha
Chennai (IND) hosted the Indian Road Walk Championships. The numbers of the participating athletes are decidedly high, not at the levels of those of Japan and China, but certainly of interest. Two days of competition: the first (16 February) ...
17/02/2019 - Siauliai (LTU): great performance of Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene in 3.000indoor, Marius Žiukas wins in men
The national indoor athletics championships took place on the completely renovated indoor track of the city of Siauliai, in northern Lithuania, on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 February 2019. The two race walking events (men's 5,000m and wome...
17/02/2019 - Kobe (JPN): Takahashi and Okaga Japan Champions; Liu Hong (1:27:56)
Ideal day for walkers in Kobe, where on the traditional Rokko Island route the 102nd edition of the Japan Championship of Marcia took place on 20km. 20km men Immediately take the lead Isamu Fujisawa (JPN), Koki ...
16/02/2019 - Ancona (ITA) - Italian Indoor Championships: victories of Antonella Palmisano and Francesco Fortunato with world-wide marks
The first day of the Italian Indoor Championships in Ancona reserves, as usual, the two walk events. 3.000m. indoor walk women It is already clear, but it will be better understood in men, how much these championships have been ...
14/02/2019 - The former Slovenian walker Milan Balek, who holds all race walking records of Slovenia, died
A sad news upsets the world of Slovenia's race walk On Monday February 11th 2019 died one of the greatest Yugoslav and Slovenian walkers Milan Balek (SLO) current holder of all Slovenian national race walking records: - 10.000m (42...
13/02/2019 - Ancona (ITA) - Italian Indoor Championships: an undertone presence
Saturday 16 February 2019 will take place in Ancona (ITA) the first day of the Italian Indoor Championships in athletics, with the two walking races that are scheduled: - at 14:55: 3.000m indoor walk women - at 15:15: 5.000m indoor walk men &...
12/02/2019 - Birmingham (GBR): Tom Bosworth e Heater Lewis are the winner of Spar British Athletics Indoor Championships
Birmingham (GBR) hosted the Spar British Athletics Indoor Championships on Sunday, 10 February 2019. The walking events were held at the Birmingham Arena; the distances were that of 5,000m. indoor for men and also for women, who instead usual...
11/02/2019 - Pombal (POR): Ana Cabecinha (9 times) and Joao Vieira (19 times) Indoor Champions of Portugal
On Saturday 9 February, also in Portugal, the Indoor Championships took place with the two usual walking events on the distance of 5.000m indoor for men and 3.000m indoor for women. 3.000m indoor women The 34 year-old Ana Cabeci...
11/02/2019 - El Vendrell (ESP): Marc Tur and Raquel Gonzalez Spanish champions of 50km
El Vendrell in Catalonia hosted yesterday the championship of Spain of the 50km reached the 87th edition. Alongside some races for the U20 and U18 on the 10km as well as for the Masters (Master Championship of 20km) and for the U16. &n...
10/02/2019 - Adelaide (AUS): Perseus Karlstrom and Sandra Arenas won the Oceania Open
With the large international contingent of walkers coming off the AIS based Supernova camp in Canberra last month, the 20km fields were large and of high quality. Overall, 14 women and 34 men had entered the Oceania and Australian Open 20km Summer C...
09/02/2019 - Ancona (ITA): Italian U18 Championships - victories of Martina Casiraghi and Emiliano Brigante
The two walking races of the U18 Italian Championships see, as already said during the presentation, a very interesting number of athletes at the start. 3.000m. indoor walk women The women are divided into two timed sessions. &n...
09/02/2019 - Pireaus (GRE) - Greek Indoor Championships, victories of Panagiota Tsinopoulou and Alexandros Papamichail
Saturday at the indoor palace “Peace & Friendship” in Pireaus took place the Greek Indoor Championship; race walking events were as usual 5000m race walk men and the 3000m ra...
08/02/2019 - Doping (RUS): Anisya Kornikova-Kirdyapkina banned from Jul. 27, 2017 to Jul. 26, 2020
On the basis of the values of the biological passport that presented considerable variations in blood, the IAAF had started a procedure against some athletes in Russia (12). The Court Arbitration of Sport has now disqualified another Russia...
08/02/2019 - Adelaide (AUS): Oceania 20km open Championships - Karlstrom and Arenas favorites
The Oceania 20km Racewalking Championships will take place in Adelaide, Australia this weekend. With 3 Oceania Federations represented plus several other stellar walkers from all around the world. This kicks off the IAAF Racewalking season. The Wome...
08/02/2019 - IAAF Press Release
We copy and paste the press release of IAAF containing the Race Walking Committee statement about the future competition programme and introduction of the electronical insoles as well the IAAF Press release (below) highlighting the proposals taken d...
07/02/2019 - Ancona (ITA) next Saturday the Indoor Italian U18 Championships
From time to time we too of Marcia dal Mondo have always been very critical with the movement of the race walk in Italy, we have to change our mind and look positively. It should happen next Saturday when the Italian U18 Championships will ta...
06/02/2019 - Kobe 2019: the farewell of Tanii and the come back of Liu Hong
Sunday, February 17 great participation in Kobe for the National Championships of Japan on 20km. At the end of the entries the number of entered athletes is impressive: - 20km men: 109 athletes - 20km women: 50 athletes - 10km U20 men: 122 at...
05/02/2019 - Rennes (FRA): French Championships U20 and U23
As happened in Italy in Ancona in the same day in France in Rennes the same championships were held U20 and U23. 5.000m indoor walk U23 men Victory for Gabriel Bordier (FRA) in 18:51.73 with a new record U23 of France (previous of 19:0...
03/02/2019 - Kunming (CHN): race test of other Chinese athletes
On the morning of February 2, two days before the Chinese New Year, about 120 walkers from eight provinces took a group test in Chenggong, Kunming. Kunming has a mild winter climate, and with an altitude of 1900m, most of China's walkers c...
02/02/2019 - Ancona: Italian Indoor Championships U20 and U23
The Italian U20 and U23 Indoor Championships are being held in Ancona (ITA) with the four running races that took place every Saturday afternoon. 5.000m indoor walk U23 men Only eight athletes at the start. Giacomo Brandi (ITA) ...
31/01/2019 - San Lorenzo al Mare (ITA): still race tests on 15 km and 40km
After the first tests of last week today the Chinese group in San Lorenzo rally has finished the work on the west Ligurian Riviera with a second competitive test as we announced in our news of January 26, 2019 ( click here ) The athletes who ...
30/01/2019 - Perseus Karlstrom and Claire Tallent athletes of the month of January 2019
Let's start the season 2019 with the usual choices of the best athlete of the month. This year Marcia dal Mondo has proceeded by setting the following posts that will be taken as nominations among which we will choose the athlete of the month: -...
29/01/2019 - Santee, CA (USA): Claire Tallent's brilliant victory in women; David Velasquez (ECU) wins in men
On Saturday, January 26, also in Santee, California (USA), the National Championships of the 50km race took place. As usual the US race is open and there has been a good participation of foreign athletes. At the start of the 50km 36 athletes ...
29/01/2019 - Two sleepless nights and a cry of alarm
It was a Monday morning more than three months ago (October 22, 2018) and someone that night did not sleep too quietly. The day before in that of Reggio Emilia, where the Italian Championship of 50km road walk was held (along with other corol...
28/01/2019 - Bratislava (SVK): Alex Wright (IRL) and Maria Czakova (SVK) won ELAN Meeting ELAN
Not only long distances this Sunday, but also Indoor meetings. In Bratislava it was the turn of the classic Elan Meeting now in its 18th edition. 5.000m indoor men Matej Tóth was absent, still suffering from some muscular...
28/01/2019 - Canberra Track Classic (AUS): victories of Perseus Karstrom and Sandra Arenas - Australian record U20 of Katie Hayward
On the other side of the World in Australia at Canberra in the AIS Athletics Facility stadium was held the 2019 edition of the Canberra Track Classic. A 10,000m track walk was held as part of the annual Canberra Track Classic meet on Monday 2...
28/01/2019 - And if the dream came true ?
A crackling month end for the 50km race walk that of January 2019. The first news that has shaken the world panorama of race walk was once again that perhaps in a tomorrow not so far (the years pass unfortunately too quickly not to notice) th...
27/01/2019 - Gioiosa Marea (ITA) - great result of Eleonora Giorgi on 35km (2:45:21) - Antonelli Italian Champion on 50km
Day dedicated to race walk in Gioiosa Marea, in memory of Anna Rita Sidoti. 50km (and 35km) men Departure at 8:00 for the Italian Championship of 50km road walk which also included an intermediate stop-mark at 35km. This second solutio...
26/01/2019 - San Lorenzo al Mare (ITA): great race test on 35km of Qieyang Shenjie (2:45:15)
Like every year, the group of Chinese trained in Saluzzo, in January moved to San Lorenzo al Mare (Imperia) to escape the cold of the Cuneo countryside and train on the cycle track at 15 degrees of the Riviera di Ponente. The group arrived in...
24/01/2019 - IAAF Race Walking Committee document
On 10 January the IAAF Race Walking Committee sent a document to the federations requesting an opinion on a series of proposals with the aim of arriving at the next Walking Committee with the specific comfort of the federations and race walking peop...
23/01/2019 - Gioiosa Marea (ITA): Italian Championships of 50km
On Sunday 27th January the 50km Italian Championships will take place in Gioiosa Marea (Messina) with an intermediate finish at 35km and a series of side events for senior, U20 and U18. This is certainly the best way to remember, in her city,...
21/01/2019 - Marathonas (GRE): Greek Championships of 50km
Sunday 20 January 2019 at the Olympic Rowing Center of Schinias in Marathon (GRE) which is located a few steps from the departure of the Athens Authentic Marathon, the 50km Greek Championships took place with some side events valid for the seventh e...
19/01/2019 - Kiev (UKR): special wedding celebrations for Ivan Losev and Inna Kashina
The Orthodox Christian Church celebrates Christmas according to the Julian Calendar on January 6 (Epiphany). The following week in Ukraine in Kiev took place an Indoor Meeting of athletics reached its XXIV Edition called "Meeting of Begi...
17/01/2019 - Burjassot (ESP): victories of Amanda Cano and Miguel Ángel López
Burjassot, in the Valencian Community, hosted the Road Walking Championships of Valencia and Murcia on Saturday, 12 January 2019, in conjunction with the dispute of the VIII Grand Prix "City of Burjassot" and the fifth edition of the "...
16/01/2019 - Vasylyna Vitovshchyk (UKR) suspended due to positivity at doping test
Even the shadows of doping on race walking in recent times, unfortunately, has often jumped into the limelight for these infractions. We are talking about Ukraine that only in 2018 had to deal with four other suspensions of top athlete...
14/01/2019 - Istanbul (TUR): great results of Salih Korkmaz (TUR), Selman Ilhan (TUR), Mustafa Tekdal (TUR) and Meryem Bekmez (TUR)
Yesterday took place in Istanbul (TUR) the Indoor Race Walking Championships sponsored by SportToto which also gives its name to the indoor facility. About ninety walkers who participated in walking events and among them the most important na...
13/01/2019 - Sheffield (GBR): Cameron Corbishley won UK Indoor in 11:54.83, in women victory of Madeline Shott
On January 6, 2019 the England Indoor Championships organized by the UK Athletics took place in Sheffield (GBR). An oval that for years has hosted the main indoor races of Great Britain. As often happens in England the local indoor cham...
13/01/2019 - Porto de Mos (POR): Joao Vieira wins 35 and 50km, Sandra Silva (50km women) and Mara Ribeiro (35km women)
This morning the 50km Portugal Championships took place in Porto de Mos (POR) with an intermediate point at 35kkm. 50km men Seven athletes at the start. Pretty quiet victory for Joao Vieira (POR) in 3:51:46. These are his split ...
12/01/2019 - Pierce O'Callaghan director of readiness for Doha 2019
Pierce O'Callaghan, a respected international race walking judge, has been appointed by the IAAF as director of readiness for the upcoming World Championships in Doha. His role will include making sure key milestones between now and the ev...
10/01/2019 - Porto de Mos (POR): the road walk championships of Portugal
The month of January as usual hosts in Portugal the National Road Walk Championship of 35km and 50km. Also this year the Championship will be hosted in Porto de Mos, city in the region of Leiria, just over halfway between the famous Sanctuary...
09/01/2019 - Canberra (AUS): 38:52.76 of Perseus Karlstrom on 10.000m track walk
Like every year in this period in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport the Supernova project is taking place now at its fourth edition. As usual, the project also includes some official track events in particular on the distance of 10,000m ...
08/01/2019 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): victories of Dominik Cerny (SVK) and Viktoria Madarasz (HUN)
On Friday 4 January, the indoor activity of 2019 was opened in Slovakia with the traditional race test dedicated to Matej Toth combined with the Slovak championships in the U20 category. In total a parterre of 56 walkers have competed in Banska Byst...
07/01/2019 - Nantes (FRA): Gabriel Bordier brokes the 5.000m indoor U23 record that resisted from 21 years
When Anthony Gillet (FRA) had broken the U23 category record in the 5000m indoor walk (it was January 1998) with a mark of 19:33.42, Gabriel Bordier was a four-month-old. It took 21 years, the age of Gabriel, to see Antony Gillet's indoor record...
06/01/2019 - Esteban Soto (COL) loses the silver of Barranquilla for positivity to isometheptene
In its December 2018 bulletin of the violation of doping, the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit also includes Manuel Esteban Soto (COL). However, the penalty is a minor sanction (2 months and one week) and the period of ineligibility start from S...
03/01/2019 - Rochester (USA): Nick Christie and Miranda Melville won USA indoor Championships
In Rochester, USA, the USA 2018-2019 Indoor National Championships took place in one of the last 2018 races. The format is unusual for most European countries, but it is worth trying out. The athletes competed on two official distances: that of the ...
02/01/2019 - Aichi (JPN): victory of Yuki Yamazaki in 20km of New year's Day Walk, Aichi
This year, in addition to Tokyo, there was competition for the first race of the year also in Aichi, near Nagoya (JPN) which hosted the 50th edition of the New Year's Day Walk. In fact, an alternative albeit lower level to that of Tokyo near the...
01/01/2019 - Tokyo (JPN): Victories of Yuya Saganami and Kumiko Okada in 67th edition f New Year Race Walk Meeting
In the race to determine which was the first race of the year 2019 this year Tokyo for about ten minutes managed to give the start to the 20km of the men before the 50km start in Hong Kong. 20km Men There were a hundred athletes...
01/01/2019 - Hong Kong (HKG): Liu Hong return racing and won 20km in 1:30:43
The first day of 2019 from a few years also represents the moment of the first 50km of the season. The race takes place in a very scenic location: Seashore Path, Sunny Bay. The Hong Kong Racewalking Association, led by the volcanic intern...