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11/08/2020 - Ankara (TUR): Salih Korkmaz and Evin Demir win the Turkish Cup
The Turkish Race Walking Cup took place on Sunday 9 August, held at the Naili Moran athletics track in Ankara. Twenty-two walkers participated in the competition, which took place over 5.000 meters for women and 10.000 meters fo...
10/08/2020 - Patras (GRE): Alexandros Papamichael and Antigoni Drisbioti champions of the 20km 2020
The Greek 20km Championships took place in Patras (GRE) on the morning of Sunday 9 August 2020 at 7:30am. The event was originally scheduled for April 4 and later postponed. The morning was very favorable for the walkers ...
09/08/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Barbara Kovacs and Mate Helebrandt champions of Hungary 2020
Race walk evening, that of Saturday, in Budapest (HUN) where the first day of the 125th National Championships of Hungary ended. At 8:00pm the start of the women's race, at 8:35pm the start of the men's race. &nbs...
08/08/2020 - Lisbon (POR): Ana Cabecinha and Joao Vieira champions of Portugal 2020
The Portugal 2020 Championships took place on Saturday 8 August with a completely different model than in previous years, but interesting. The events took place in five different locations: Braga, Lisbon (Estádio U...
07/08/2020 - The 100th anniversary of Ferruccio Pichi the walking Marshal of the "Pizzardoni Romani"
A beautiful milestone for one of the funniest and most original figures who made the "world of walking in Rome in the 1950s" is cut two days ago by Ferruccio Pichi. He is certainly not one of the best-known name...
06/08/2020 - Goteborg (SWE): Perseus Karlstrom wins with three athletes at the new personal best
The Gothenburg Trophy, a 10km walking race to which the following eight athletes were invited, was held on Wednesday evening in the Slottsskogen Park in Gothenburg: - Callum Wilkinson (GBR - David Kenny (IRL) - Brendan Boyce (IR...
04/08/2020 - Olomuc (CZE): Victories to Michel Morway (SVK) and Anezka Drahotova (CZE)
COVID-19 has not stopped the traditional race race in Olomuc (SVK) which has reached its 54th edition this year. Initially scheduled for March this season the event took place in the distance of 10km on the road on Saturday 1 August 20...
04/08/2020 - Japan: Nara Prefectural Championships
The Prefectural Championships of the country of athletics continue in Japan. This weekend (1-2 August) took place at the Kashihara Park Stadium in Kashihara City in the Nara Prefecture. Very hot temperature above 32 ° with a...
03/08/2020 - Joannina (GRE): excellent results at the U20 Championships in Greece
The U20 National Championships were held over the weekend in Greece. The organization of these Championships had chosen the city of Joannina, the capital of the Epirus region, 430km from Athens, as its venue. The walking races s...
02/08/2020 - Budapest (HUN) - Budapest Open
The Budapest Open with 5,000m track races for men and women reserved to U20 and U18 took place during this weekend in Budapest. 5.000m U20 men's track walk Only one athlete at the start. David Vargas (HU...
01/08/2020 - All the medals of Italy in the important international events from 1912 to 1920
The Statistics section has now been enriched with a new series of statistical data. They are those of all the medals of Italian athletes won in the most important international events from 1912 until 2019 inclusive. For e...
31/07/2020 - Postponement rescheduled and definite cancellation
The World Athletics Council has approved new dates for the World U20 Championships Nairobi 2020 and the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Minsk 2020. The World U20 Championships will now be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17 ...
29/07/2020 - Jinzhou (CHN): Victories of Wang Kaihua, Sun Song e Yang Jiayu
Very interesting results in the Chinese morning in Jinzhou (CHN) in the: National Trophy for Provinces and Chinese Cup 2020 "Jinzhou Bank" 20km men Departure at 7:00 in the morning. Temperat...
28/07/2020 - Ostia (ITA): A beautiful and complete 20km test
Our most assiduous readers will certainly know that at least in the last five years during the winter stage of the national team of China in San Lorenzo al Mare, near Sanremo, Italy, this training moment for us is also a moment ...
28/07/2020 - Larisa (GRE): Greek U18 National Championships
Greece has also returned to racing and this time with the U18 National Championships which took place over the past weekend (25-26 July 2020). The two walk events were held on the morning of the second day (26 July) on th...
28/07/2020 - From 1.9.2020 the qualification system for the Olympic Games changes
World Athletics will lift the suspension of the Tokyo Olympic qualification system for the marathon and race walk events from 1 September 2020, due to concerns over the lack of qualifying opportunities that may be available for ...
27/07/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Bence Venyercsan and Viktoria Madarasz win the 36th Hungarian Cup
On Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 July, the 36th Hungarian Track and Field Athletics Cup was held at the Iharos Sándor Atlétikai Pálya in Budapest. The two walking events took place on the 5.000m track, a ...
26/07/2020 - Tokyo - The 83rd High School Championships of Tokyo Prefecture
In Japan the championships of every single Prefecture continue tirelessly. On July 23, we had given you a report of those that took place in Osaka and which concerned senior athletes, today we want to offer our readers the resul...
26/07/2020 - Doping: Thursday 30 July the autobiography of Grigory Rodchenkov comes out
In the doping saga today we refer to the publication of a book “The Rodchenkov Affair” which will be released on Thursday 30 July 2020. Ity is a series of extracts from the explosive new autobiography of fo...
24/07/2020 - Jinzhou (CHN): pre-Olympic aptitude tests for women in China
In the news of presentation of the Trophy of the Provinces of Jinzhou (CHN) we had also given a hint at the news that in the days preceding the competitions all the athletes on the list of participants will be subjected to the buffer C...
24/07/2020 - Jinzhou (CHN): on Wednesday 29th July athletes return to compete on the Olympic distances
National Trophy by Provinces and Chinese Cup 2020 "Jinzhou Bank" The first (official) post-Covid race in China will be held on Wednesday 29 July called the National Trophy by provinces, Chinese Cup 2020 and sponsored b...
23/07/2020 - Moscow 24 July 1980: the legend of the "dandelion"
In the language of flowers, the "dandelion" symbolizes strength, hope, trust; also known in Italy by the name of "tarassaco" deriving from the Greek "tarake" which means disarrangement, turmoil and from &q...
23/07/2020 - Osaka (JPN): 88th athletics championships in Osaka Prefecture
This morning Japan time, the 88th Track and Field Championships of Osaka Prefecture were held in Osaka (JPN). The races took place in the splendid setting of the Nagai Stadium where Jefferson Perez signed the golden triptych of ...
22/07/2020 - Eu (FRA): Kevin Campion stops the clock in 18:57.40 on 5.000m track walk
From a certain point of view this makes us very happy. Seeing races on any short distance is a reason to see the vitality of trace walking. However, we would also like to see some events on the Olympic distances, because this is...
20/07/2020 - Important updates of the Statistics section
The Statistics section has been updated and enriched with the following publications Men - All the winners of the 89 editions of the Italian 50 km Championships and, as of 1968, the statistics in...
19/07/2020 - Chailly-sur-Montreux (SUI): David Kuster wins 10.000m track walk with the new U23 France record (40:10.0)
The first race of the year, the Swiss track championships in Chailly (VD) were a success. With excellent sporting benefits, including a French record: that set by David Kuster in U23 category in 40:10.0 ! After 133 days, more tha...
18/07/2020 - The story of a predestined who shouted "Viva l'Italia" turns 100 years
Today exactly one month is missing (18 August 1920). Italy's first Olympic gold medal in the history of race walking. We want to retrace in particular the facts that preceded those days also through the same words of Ugo Frigerio, ...
16/07/2020 - There is no end in the case of doping of Lupita Gonzalez
There is no end in the 2018 doping story of Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Romero In October 2018, Lupita Gonzalez was subjected to an out-of-competition doping test. Subsequent analyzes led to discovering above-allowed ...
14/07/2020 - Kobe (JPN): Victories of Yutaro Murayama and Minori Yabuta in local championships
The Hyogo Prefecture Championships were also held on Sunday 12 July in Kobe, Japan. Also in this case the two races were held on the distance of the 5.000m track walk. The results are fairly good even if, given that they ...
13/07/2020 - Capavenir-Vosges (FRA): David Kuster wins the 5.000m track with the new personal best of 19:32.11
Since the beginning of July, despite the strict health protocols, the athletics tracks are gradually resuming their activity. Of course, competitions are limited. And so also in France where in the first official post-con...
12/07/2020 - Dubnice nad Váhom (SVK): Matej Toth wins 5.000m track walk (19:54.58) and Maria Czakova wins 3.000m track walk (13:20.60)
The almost 300-day break of the Olympic champion in the 50km race from Rio de Janeiro 2016, Matej Tóth, ended on Sunday 12 July. The 37-year-old Olympic champion showed up at the start of the 5000m race in Dubnice nad V&a...
11/07/2020 - A Marcha é Para Todos (POR): Lousada, Leiria and Faro
"A Marcha é Para Todos" is a walking challenge, which takes place in 3 different locations (Lousada - Porto; Pombal - Leiria and Faro - Algarve) at the same time (20:30) at the same distance (3,000 meters). The choice of this...
10/07/2020 - Incheon (KOR): Kim Hyunsub and Kim Minji win th 49th South Korean Championships
South Korea in the early stages of the pandemic due to Covid-19 was a Country that more successfully managed to limit the spread of the virus. These days, which are also characterized by abundant rain showers, the Nationa...
08/07/2020 - Częstochowa (POL): Dawid Tomala win the LAZLA Athletics Meeting
LAZLA Athletics Meeting took place on Saturday 4th July 2020 on the track of the Miejski stadium in Częstochowa. The program also included two walking track events: - that of women and on the distance of 5.000m - that of ...
02/07/2020 - Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX): CAS-TAS confirms the disqualification of four years
Today Thursday 2 July 2020, CAS-TAS in Lausanne confirmed the disqualification imposed on Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez by the Athletics Integrity Unit of the World Athletics. The Mexican athlete had been suspended for ...
28/06/2020 - CENFA (ESP) - Importance of strength work in race walking
The proceedings of an interesting webinar organized in Spain by the Centro Nacional de Formacion Atleticas (CENFA) of the Real Federacion Espanola de Atletismo have recently been published on the YouTube platform. ...
27/06/2020 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): Victories of Leo Kopp (GER) and Viktoria Madarasz (HUN)
The meeting that marked the return to the walking races in the city of Slovakia was held in Banska Bystrica (SVK). The route on the road was a bit different from the standards to which we are accustomed in that in the rac...
21/06/2020 - Alytus (LTU): the International Race Walking Festival will take place on Sep. 18, 2020
The International Marching Festival, in Lithuania, initially scheduled for June 5, has a new date: September 18, 2020. The event that is part of the European Athletics Association's "Permit Meeting" also con...
14/06/2020 - Eskilstuna (SWE): Perseus Karlstrom can't break Stefan Johansson's 15,000m track walk record
Beautiful sunny day in Eskilstuna (SVE) with a with temperatures reaching high 20s. There was also a very strong headwind on the home straight. Perseus Karlstrom's attempt to break the Swedish record on the unusua...
13/06/2020 - Zivilė Vaiciukevičiūtė ends his career at just 24 years of age
Zivile Vaciukeviciute, elected by the Lithuanian Athletics Federation as "best athlete 2019", has decided to surprise us all and to end her sporting career at only 24 years old. Zivile justified his decision with the e...
11/06/2020 - In 50km Yohann Diniz the most consistent athlete of the last 40 years, Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado the one always at the highest levels
We propose today the same continuity analysis done for both 20km also for 50km men. Analysis methodology and comments 1) The best athletes from 1980 (last 40 years) to 2020 who have obtained at least 10 perf...
10/06/2020 - Podebrady (CZE) has now been re-scheduled for Saturday 10 October 2020
We finally try to return to normal. The traditional international race walking event in Podebrady, Czech Republic, which was initially scheduled for April 4 and postponed due to the emergency situation decreed in the coun...
08/06/2020 - Sunday, June 14 Perseus Karlstrom tries to get Sweden's new national record on the 15.000m track walk
Perseus Karlstrom is attacking the Swedish 15.000m track walk record in a special time trial next Sunday 14thJune 2020 in his hometown of Eskilstuna. Below a short interview with the athlete. 1.- In January in Melbourne yo...
06/06/2020 - An evening five years ago
It was a day in which we breathed a very particular air. In the morning a few flashes of rain had cooled the air, but at 18:25 when there were five minutes left for what would have been the race of the year for me, the th...
03/06/2020 - Liu Hong the most consistent female athlete of the last 20 years, Ana Cabecinha the one always at the highest levels
We propose today the same continuity analysis done for 20km men on a female level. Analysis methodology 1) The best athletes from 1999 (from when the women's 20 km. was introduced) to 2020 who have obtained at ...
01/06/2020 - Francisco Fernandez the most consistent athlete of the last 40 years, Mikhail Schennikov the one always at the highest levels
In these months in which Covid-19 changed our days of life, we took the liberty of stimulating the historical and statistical memory of Sandro Damilano by proposing an analysis of the continuity (constancy of results) of a singl...
28/05/2020 - The 50km of Takahata (JPN) has also been canceled
COVID-19 still continues to force athletics federations to cancel important scheduled competitions. This time the object of the cancellation is the 59th edition of Takahata's All Japan 50km Race Walk which was ...
22/05/2020 - AtleticaViva Online - From the Rules to the analysis of judgment - A 20-year history
Thursday 21 May at 18:00 through the use of the "Zoom" platform was the turn of the fifth video conference dedicated to race walking. The day was dedicated to the theme "From the Rules to the analysis of ju...
08/05/2020 - In China athletes return to compete
Finally the return to racing, with a sigh of relief and hope, and the restart starts right where it all started ate the end of January. Four races on the 10,000m on track walk were held this morning in China with a rather special final classi...
05/05/2020 - The Swiss Federal Court dismisses Schwazer's appeal
The endless story of Alex Schwazer is enriched with a new chapter. The Swiss Federal Court based in Lausanne has in fact rejected the request to cancel the eight-year disqualification suffered in summer 2016 - the second ...
04/05/2020 - AtleticaViva Online - Reading and interpretation of the assessment tests in race walking
Wednesday, April 29 at 6:00pm through the use of the "Zoom" platform was the turn of the fourth video conference dedicated to race walking. The day was dedicated to "Reading and interpretation of the assessment te...
29/04/2020 - The Italian race walk mourns Luigi De Rosso
Another glory of the Italian race walk is no longer among us: Luigi De Rosso. Luigi De Rosso was one of the four Venetian athletes, together with Adolfo Consolini, Carlo Lievore and Pier Luigi Cazzola, who participated in...
23/04/2020 - A hearts attack took us away Hartwig Gauder
Today is a sad day for the world of walking and personal for the writer. In the German newspaper Thueringer-Allgemeine, the news of the death at 65 years of one of the most important markers in the world, the German Hartw...
22/04/2020 - AtleticaViva Online - Race Walking in China - Territorial and federal organization - Training strategies
Wednesday, April 22 at 6:00pm through the use of the "Zoom" platform it was the turn of the third video conference dedicated to race walking. Today's meeting was focused on the figure of Sandro Damilano who ...
17/04/2020 - AtleticaViva Online - The second day dedicated to race walking
Wednesday 15 April at 6:00pm through the use of the "Zoom" platform, it was the second video conference dedicated to the march. Moderator: Ruggero Sala Speakers: Alessandro Gandellini, Luca Montoleone, Nicola Pi...
13/04/2020 - La Coruna (ESP): postponed, goodbye to ...
The insiders had been aware of this for about ten days, but the official newas arrived just yesterday with a series of notes to the main Galician newspapers (La Coruna). "The municipal council of A Coruña has ...
11/04/2020 - AtleticaViva Online: The 50km women's walk: history, analysis and evolution of a race
In this period of mandatory home stop and suspension of competitive activity, a large videoconference program was born on "AtleticaViva Online", a project promoted and implemented by the Fidal Technical Management. &nb...
08/04/2020 - The World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon have been re-scheduled to 2022
Following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the World Athletics Championships are also postponed for a year. The next edition will take place in Eugene, Oregon (United States), from 15 to 24 July 2022. This i...
07/04/2020 - World Athletics suspends qualification period to Tokyo from April 6 2020 to November 30 2020
World Athletics announces today the qualification period for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is suspended effective from 6 April 2020 until 30 November 2020 included, following consultation with its Athletes' Commission, Area P...
31/03/2020 - At the end, Wajima was also canceled
And unfortunately Wajima also capitulated. It was the last 50km of this first part of the season that should have taken place. It was the last race of the Japanese triptych of Kobe, Nomi and Wajima in which the wal...
28/03/2020 - Dolores Rojas through the eyes of a child
It is not easy to smile in times of COVID-19, but I want to try to do it. The use of technology these days has allowed me to get in touch with my great friend Dolores Rojas Suarez, international race walking judge known a...
25/03/2020 - Wajima (JPN): will take place despite the postponement of the Olympic Games
As already reported with our news of 8.3.2020 ( click here ), on Sunday 12 April 2020 the 104th edition of the 50km Japan National Championships should have taken place in Wajima (JAP), also valid for the th...
24/03/2020 - Tokyo - Joint statement from IOC and LOC of Tokyo 2020
JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND THE TOKYO 2020 ORGANISING COMMITTEE The President of the IOC, Thomas Bach, and the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, held a conference call this morning to d...
23/03/2020 - Tokyo, the difficult decision in the war of today
In the complicated and Vatican way of communicating its most difficult decisions, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) informed the world yesterday Sunday March 22 that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, that the...
21/03/2020 - Topical interview with Sandro Damilano
Interview with Sandro Damilano, appeared on "La Stampa" of 21.3.2020 by Paolo Costa. The road to the Olympics (if and when they will take place) is still far away, but t...
17/03/2020 - Rio Maior (POR): the race of 4 April was canceled, proposed if conditions improve in mid-June
It was to be expected. Rio Maior also had to raise the "white flag" and surrender to a postponement. At a meeting today of the Camara Municipal de Rio Maior with the local Civil Protection and with the pa...
16/03/2020 - Our Japanese piece of cake
It is not part of our task, much less the orientation that we wanted to give to this specialized web page, to give indications on the possible or hypothetical names of the national teams participating in major international even...
15/03/2020 - Nomi (JPN): 20km men with great results
Our friends from Japan managed to resist courageously and to transform what should have been the "Asian 20km Championship" into an exciting national race. There were no foreign athletes like in Kobe and the valu...
14/03/2020 - Ivano Frankivsk (UKR): Balkan Race Walking Championships and Winter race Walking Championships of Ukraine
Finally, after days of cancellations and postponements, we are dealing with some races. Today the 2020 Balkan Race Walk Championships are taking place in Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR). The schedule program includes (local time, +1 CET):...
13/03/2020 - World Athletics postpone the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, Minsk 2020
From the World Athletics website, the news that we would never have wanted to read. It is with regret that we have agreed with the Belarus Athletic Federation and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Re...
13/03/2020 - Saluzzo (ITA): The Chinese team in training in Italy returns to China
This morning (flights permitting) the elite athletes of the National Marching Team of China (Liu Hong, Qieyang Shenjie, Lu Xiuzhi, Ma Zhenxia, Cai Zelin, Zhang Yun, Wang Qin and Wang Rui together with the coaches Wang Yinhang ...
13/03/2020 - Gien (FRA): France also cancels race walking Championships
The latest news is that the French Athletics Federation has also canceled the Championnats de France, Gien, France (20km - 35km - 50km) which should have taken place on Sunday 22 March 2020. The cancellation concerns not only th...
12/03/2020 - Minsk (BLR): Ecuador selection announced
The date of the World Team March Championships to be held in Minsk (BLR) on 2 and 3 May 2020 is approaching by leaps and bounds. We sincerely hope that by then (there are 50 days left) COVID-19 will give a respite. We do ...
12/03/2020 - Naumburg (GER), Lapua (FIN): canceled - Podebrady (CZE) and Murcia (ESP): postponed
On the COVID-19 front, there are four reports regarding the international activity of the race walking made public today evening. The first, a, which had already been planned and announced by us (see news of 10.3.20...
11/03/2020 - Jeff Salvage and Gary Westerfield: How to Judge Race Walking Video
Recently the USA Race Walking Foundation has proposed the first version of "How to Judge Race Walking Video", an interesting project written by Jeff Salvage and Gary Westerfield, with the...
11/03/2020 - Ohlao (POR): Portugal's 20km walk championship canceled
It was recently reported that the Portuguese 20km race walking championship which should have been held in Olhao, Algarve in Portugal on 14.3.2020 was canceled. The future situation of competitions Before the World...
11/03/2020 - Nga Puna Wai (NZL): Quentin Rew and Alana Barber win the New Zealand Track Championships
The New Zealand track championships were held over the weekend between Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 March. The races took place in the sports complex of Nga Puna Wai in Christchurtch. The particularity of these New ...
10/03/2020 - The 39th edition of Dudince's race has also been canceled
Last night in the evening the news that Dudince (SVK) also had to raise the white flag in front of the current main enemy: COVID-19. With Dudince, four races have been canceled altogether at the beginning of the se...
09/03/2020 - Wajima (JPN): Changes to the race schedule
The 104 edition of the 50km Japan Championships traditionally held in the second weekend of April is also influenced by Japanese Government decisions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus The following events will b...
09/03/2020 - Lima (PER): South American walking championships - Ecuador and Colombia on the shields in the U20 and U18
The U20 and U18 races of the South American Race Walking Championship, which ended on Sunday 8 March on the Miraflores circuit in Lima, were dominated by representatives of Ecuador and Colombia respectively. ...
08/03/2020 - Braga (POR) - Carolina Costa and Paulo Martins win the Portugal U23 Indoor Championships
The Portugal Indoor U23 Championships are taking place yesterday and today in Braga (POR). The two walking events on the classic distance of the 3,000m women and the 5,000m men took place yesterday. 3.000m i...
08/03/2020 - Lima (PER): South American Race walking Championships - Brazil and Ecuador on shields
This morning, Peru (+6 hours CET), the South American Road Running Championships were held in Lima along the José Largo Avenue in the Miraflores area. 20km road walk women A rather slow race that that ended on...
07/03/2020 - Dublin (IRL): Wayne Snyman (RSA) and Mirna Ortiz (GUA) wins. The Irish Championship to David Kenny and Kate Veale
We had indicated in our news of 1.3.2020 that at this particular moment of the season following the cancellation of many walking races in Europe due to the COVID-19 one of the few opportunities for athletes would have been that ...
06/03/2020 - Erfurt (GER): Andreas Janker and Josephine Alisa Grandi Indoor Champions of Germany
Last Friday evening the two walking events of the German Indoor Championships took place in Erfurt (GER). In Germany the two walking events are usually integrated into the Master Championships to give greater visibility t...
06/03/2020 - Lima (PER): Tomorrow the South American Race Walking Championships
Among the few competitions that, at the moment, have not been upset by COVID-19, this weekend will take place in Lima (PER) the 2020 South American Race Walk Championship. Lima has almost 9 million inhabitants and is loca...
05/03/2020 - Lievin (FRA): Clemence Beretta and Gabriel Bordier win the French Indoor Elite Championships
Last weekend the Indoor Elite Championships of France took place in Lievin (FRA), with the two walking races both on Saturday 29 February. 3.000m indoor walk women The favorites for the French champion title...
04/03/2020 - Nomi (JPN): It will be done, but only with athletes from Japan
As we had announced with our news of March 2, 2020, the Asian Championships were still vague due to the COVID-19. On Monday, it appeared that Asian Athletics had ordered the cancellation of the Championships. Then a press...
03/03/2020 - San José de Costa Rica (CRC) - VIII Central American Race Walking Championships
The VIII Central American Race Walk Championships were held in San José de Costa Rica on Sunday 1 March. The competition was attended by more than 50 athletes from Countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragu...
03/03/2020 - Robert Cruise (AUS): Interesting booklet "Technique, Technique, Technique"
In the latest issue (#23 of today 3.3.2020) of "Heel and Toe", the Australian weelky report by Tim Erickson, which our readers will find in the "Race Walking in the World" section, among other topics covered ...
03/03/2020 - Dublino (IRL): Kate Veale and David Kenny win Irish Indoor Championships
On Saturday 29 February 2020, the two walking races were held on the first day of the Indoor Championships in Ireland. Women competed on the classic indoor 3,000m distance while men competed on the indoor 5,000m. &...
02/03/2020 - Coventry (GBR): Tom Boswort sets the new British 10km record (39:10)
Molly Barnet Walk took place yesterday in Coventry, in the Midlands (GBR). 10km road walk men Despite windy conditions, Tom Bosworth smashed the British 10km race walk record with a time of 39:10 to take more...
02/03/2020 - COVID-19: Some news about the 20 km Asian Championships in Nomi (March 15)
If we keep going at this rate this season we will not have had a race walk competition more. A shame about the crackling way it started with Kobe's results. Late yesterday (CET time) yesterday evening the decis...
01/03/2020 - Piraeus (GRE): Another great indoor result by Antigoni Drisbioti (GRE)
On Friday 28 and Saturday 29 February 2020, the National Indoor Club Championships of Greece were held in Athens in the Indoor plant of Nea Faliro in Piraeus. The two walking races on the distance of 3.000m indoor for wom...
01/03/2020 - Huangshan, Bergamo, Lugano have been canceled; possible alternative to Dublin (IRL). Other solutions are being studied in Italy.
Today at least two important Championships have been scheduled in the world: - the National Winter Championship of China in Huangshan valid as a selection for the World Team Race Walk Champi...
29/02/2020 - Pombal (POR): Victories of Joao Vieira and Ana Cabecinha
The Portugal Indoor Absolute National Championships were held today. The competitions were held in the Pombal Expocentro (POR) facility. 5.000m men indoor Undisputed victory for Joao Vieira (POR) who ...
27/02/2020 - Giovanni De Benedictis' record broken after 35 years: the thought of the former athlete
We receive, with pleasure, this thought of Giovanni De Benedictis whose best Italian U18 performance (then the category was called Allievi) was "sent to the attic" after 35 years and 20 days. We have publ...
26/02/2020 - Klaipeda (LTU): Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė and Marius Žiūkas won indoor championships
The National Indoor Championships were also held in Lithuania, in Kllaipeda. The two walking races, on the standard distances of 3.000m for women and 5.000m for men, were held on Saturday 22 February. 3.000m indoor...
25/02/2020 - Minsk (BLR): International U20 Match
Minsk (BLR) today hosts an interesting U20 indoor meeting. The junior men and women of ten countries face each other in the formula of one athlete per race. Participating countries are: Belarus (BLR) Azerbaijan (AZE) Isra...
24/02/2020 - Braga (POR) - Club's Indoor Championships
The Altice di Braga Forum (POR) hosted the National Indoor Club Championships this weekend. The clubs were divided into First Division and Second Division First division Eight teams took part in the first di...
23/02/2020 - Glasgow (GBR): Tom Bosworth seasonal leader on the 5.000m indoor walk
Tom Bosworth starred on the second and final day of the SPAR British Athletics Indoor Championships as he lowered his own national 5000m race walk record on a day of wall-to-wall finals in Glasgow. 5.000m indoor men ...
23/02/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Bence Barnabas Venyercsan and Barbara Kovacs Hungary's 2020 indoor champions
The 46th Hungary National Indoor Championships were held in Budapest on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 February. The two walking races were held: - Saturday 22 February: men on the 5.000m indoor distance - Sunday 23 February: w...
22/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - Valentina Trapletti and Franesco Fortunato win the Italian Indoor title - Great mark of Nicola Lumoscio
The first day of the Italian Absolute Indoor Championships reserves the two walking races on the traditional distances of the 3.000m indoor women and the 5.000m indoor men 3.0000m indoor women ...
20/02/2020 - Asian Athletics Association: Yang Zhongmin (CHN), Yeung Man Chun (HKG) and Koji Hoga Miura (JAP) appointed in Asian Race Walking Committee
After the election for the Asian Athletics Association Council in early April 2019 in Doha (QAT), the new board has appointed the members of the commissions and committees. The new Asian Race Walking Committee is t...
20/02/2020 - Sochi (RUS): The results of the Winter Championships of Russia in the U18 and U16 categories
The next day of the Russia Winter March Championships in Sochi competitions moved to the Glorie Metreveli FSBI "South Sport" stadium. 10.000m track walk U18 boys As many as 25 athletes at th...
19/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - The absolute indoor championships with the "lump on the stomach"
We imagined it and the voices of the world of the Italian race walk confirmed it to us. The 2020 edition of the Italian Indoor Absolute Championships will be lack of the stars of the Italian race walk, of those who...
18/02/2020 - Sochi (RUS): The results of the Winter Championships of Russia
Sochi (RUS) a two-day walk on the Autodrom track, which is located in the Olympic Park. Races for Russia's team walking winter championship took place on Monday 15 February 2020. The distances were as follows: - 35km ...
18/02/2020 - The Federation of India selects 13 athletes for the 20km Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi (JPN)
The Athletic Federation of India selection committee on Monday selected a 13-member Indian team for the Asian 20km Race Walking Championships to be held at Nomi, Japan on 15 March 2020. For the Asian Race Walking Championships, ...
18/02/2020 - Patras (GRE): 4th walking festival and the U23 national walking championship
On a very sunny morning with 15°C, during the Carnival period in the most famous carnival city of Greece, Patras, the 4th walking festival and the U23 national walking championship took place. The festival was successful and...
18/02/2020 - Budapest (HUN): U20 and U18 Indoor Championships
The U20 and U18 Indoor Championships were also held in Hungary on Saturday 15 February. 5.000m indoor U20 men Victory to Norbert Toth (HUN) in 21:54.04 Second place to Mate Ferenc Vargas (HUN) in 22:40.41 Th...
18/02/2020 - Macas (ECU): good marks for Brian Daniel Pintado and Karla Johana Jaramillo at the National Interclub Championships of Ecuador
The 2020 National Interclubs Walking Championships were held in Macas (ECU) on Saturday 15 February. The competitions were held in conjunction with the Ecuadorian Athletics Gala awards for the year 2019. Pretty rainy day....
17/02/2020 - Recife (BRA): Victories of Caio Bonfim and Erica de Sena in the Copa do Brasil de Marcha
On Sunday 16 February 2020 the walking races for the Copa Brasil Caixa de Marcha Atletica were held in Recife (BRA). 35km women Six athletes at the start. Victory for Viviane Santana Lyra (BRA) in 3:10:13 Th...
17/02/2020 - Torreviejas (ESP): Smolonskis wins; Ivan Pajuelo and Mar Juárez last champions of Spain of the 50km
In what was the last championship of Spain on the road for the distance of 50 km, Iván Pajuelo and Mar Juárez, were proclaimed in Torrvieja champions of Spain. The city of Alicante, Torrevieja, which has alrea...
16/02/2020 - Antalya (TUR) - Victories of Salih Korkmaz (TUR) and Olena Sobchuck (UKR)
Sunny day in Antalya in southern Turkey where the 20km Turkey National Championships were held on the Akdeniz Boulevard today along with an international walking race. 20km men The Ukrainian national team wa...
16/02/2020 - Kobe (JPN): World mark for Toshikazu Yamanishi (1:17:36)
On the new course of Rokko Island on a rainy day the 103rd Japan Championships of 20km took place this morning. The race had assumed in recent days a particular importance for the statements of Perseus Karlstrom who had been invited to partic...
16/02/2020 - CAS reduces the suspension of Russian race walker Alexander Ivanov to two years
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) have reduced the doping ban for Russian race walker Alexander Ivanov from three years to two. Ivanov, 26, who originally won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and silver ...
16/02/2020 - Ranchi (IND): Sanabam Daman Singh (IND) wins 50km
The second day in Ranchi (IND) for the 7th National Open Championships included the 50km and U20 men and women races over the 10km distance. 50km men At the start there are 12 athletes. The race presents a fair lev...
16/02/2020 - Albuquerque (USA): Nick Christie and Robyn Stevens wins at the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships 2020
The Toyota USATF Indoor Championships were held on Saturday 15 February in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA), with the traditional races scheduled in the USA over the distance of 3,000m indoors for both men and women. ...
15/02/2020 - Ranchi (IND): Sandeep Kumar and Bhawana Jat new 20km race walk champions
The 20km races for men and women were held on the first day of the national walking championships in India in Ranchi. 20km men Victory for Sandeep Kumar (IND), on which everyone's eyes were focused, in 1...
15/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - Italian U18 indoor Championships - Victories of Giada Traina and Nicola Lomuscio
The first day of the U18 Indoor Italian Individual Championships in Ancona also sees the two walking races. 3.000m indoor U18 girls As expected, the women's walking race over the distance of 3,000...
14/02/2020 - Will the new Kobe circuit enter history?
There are few circuits in the world that can be considered almost perfect for walking events. In addition to the two historichal of La Coruna (ESP) and Taicang (CHN) on which the World Team Race Walk Championships races those of t...
13/02/2020 - Antalya (TUR): many stars at the 20km Turkish championships
The 20km Turkish Championships will take place on Saturday 16 February in Antalya. (Spor Toto Turkish National Race Walking Championships) The races will take place on the beautiful Adkeniz Boulevard, a splendid walk on the Medi...
12/02/2020 - Athletes section: updating of the best men's athletes in the world 2019 (third and last part)
We end the presentation of the reports of the best athletes in the world of 2019 with the following table that summarizes the athletes of Europe: Nazione Numero ...
12/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - Saturday the Italian U18 Indoor Championships
Next Saturday the Palazzetto dello Spot in Ancona will host the second round of the important indoor triptych: the Italian U18 Championships. The two walking races are scheduled at: - 15:30 - 3.000m indoor U18 girls - 17:...
11/02/2020 - Kobe (JPN): Perseus Karlstrom attempts to break Yusuke Suzuki's world record (1:16:36)
And next Sunday will be the turn of another exciting race which is now a "must" for world race walking. Organized by the Hyogo Athletics Association, the 103rd edition of the 20km Race Walk Japan Championships will take...
10/02/2020 - Antigoni Drispioti (GRE) on the roof of the world in 3.000m indoor walk
In the first official indoor race organized this year by the Greek Federation SEGAS, an excellent result by Antigoni Drispioti in the 3,000m indoor walk. The competitions were held in the indoor facility of the Pace and Friendhi...
10/02/2020 - National Championships of Colombia
The National Walking Championships of Colombia were held in Parque el Salitre in Bogota on Saturday 8 February. The scheduled races were the following: - 40km men (very unusual distance) - 20km men and women - 10km U20 me...
09/02/2020 - Australian and Oceania Roadwalking Championships
The highly anticipated Australian and Oceania Roadwalking Championships last Sunday morning in Adelaide saw the favourites winning as expected but struggling somewhat in deceptively tough conditions. The 2km lap in the North Adelaide P...
08/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - U20 and U23 Italian indoor Champiomships
(from the Fidal website) Indoor Italian Championships U20 and U23 3.000m indoor U20 women Second title in a couple of weeks for Sara Buglisi: after the success of the 20 kilometers on road, she...
05/02/2020 - China race walking team remains in Italy due to the viral infection and continues training in Saluzzo
Today in the newspaper La Stampa edition of Cuneo this article appeared that tells us about the mood of the race walking team of China that has been training in Saluzzo since the end of December, The words of the team man...
05/02/2020 - The Court of Arbitration (CAS) announced today it could not rule on the appeal because it does not have jurisdiction in the matter.
The appeal to CAS that accused the IAAF of discriminating against women by not including a race for them in the major leagues, was originally made in April last year with the support of American lawyer Paul F. DeMeester and had as...
05/02/2020 - Baerum (NOR): Havard Haukenes and Siri Gamst Glittenberg 2020 indoor champions of Norway
Saturday, February 1, 2020, the Indoor Championships of Norway were held in Baerum (NOR), in the indoor plant of the Baerum Idtrettspark, Rud with the usual races on the classic distances of: - 3.000m indoors for women - 5.000m ...
04/02/2020 - Sumy (UKR): Ihor Hlavan and Tamara Havrylyuk-Stasyuk win the Indoor Championships of Ukraine
The past weekend has also been the day of the Indoor Championships of Ukraine, which took place in the University of Sumy indoor facility. The two walk events took place on Saturday: - at 10:30 that of men on the distance of 5.0...
04/02/2020 - Ancona (ITA) - Indoor 2020 season starts with U20 and U23 Italian Championships
This on Saturday and Sunday is the first of the three weekends in Italy dedicated to the Italian Indoor Championships. It starts on Saturday 8 February with the Championship reserved for the U20 and U23 men and women categories, and wi...
03/02/2020 - Riga (LAT): Raivo Saulgriezis and Modra Ignate are the new Latvian indoor champions
Unfortunately we hadn't noticed, but on Saturday 25 January 2020, the national indoor walking championships were also held in Latvia on the occasion of multiple events. The small oval of Riga, with a 3-lane track, mor...
02/02/2020 - The Tokyo Olympic medals made with 80,000 tons of recycled mobile phones
Over 80,000 tons of electronic waste have been collected (cell phones and some devices such as cameras, among others). The components of many of these devices have been recycled to produce the gold, silver and bronze medals that...
01/02/2020 - Lyon (FRA): the indoor walking championships in Salle Diagana
Today, in the context of the first day of the French Championships of Multiple Events and Race Walkin in the first day, it will give the opportunity to see a good number of walkers competing. French friends, unlike other ...
28/01/2020 - El Vendrell (ESP): Mario Vinas and Raquel Campos champions of Catalonia 2020
On Sunday the Catalan Marching Championship was also held in conjunction with the Grand Prix de Marcia de El Vendrell (ESP). The race was open to the Senior and U23, U20 and U18 categories. As usual, it was also open to minor ca...
27/01/2020 - Santee (USA): Andreas Gustafsson and Robyn Stevens win the 50km
Santee, CA hosted the USATF 50km Race Walk Championships on Saturday 25 January 2020, also valid as trials to Sapporo Olympic Games and some invitation races. 50km men (Trial to Sapporo) Nick Christie (USA) ...
27/01/2020 - Melbourne (AUS) - At Supernova 2 Rhydian Cowley (AUS) wins over Perseus Karlstrom (SWE). Jemima Montag (AUS) wins in women.
The second of the two Supernova Study International 10,000m track walks was held at the Melbourne University Athletics Track in Parkville (Melbourne), starting at 10AM on Monday January 27. Conditions were a bit warmer than 2 we...
26/01/2020 - Porto de Mos (POR): National of Race Walking 2020
Porto de Mos today hosted the 2020 Portoganllo Nacional de Marcia Championship. As often happens in Portugal and in other Countries, tests are held with a single start (men and women) also between the different categories. The t...
26/01/2020 - Grosseto (ITA) - Great mark of Eleonora Giorgi (35km: 2:43:43)
Grosseto today hosted the seasonal winter debut of the road walk in Italy, what in the past was called the Winter Road Walk Trophy and which today is the first round of the Road Walk Clubs Championship. If we consider the...
25/01/2020 - Arahal (ESP): Luis Alberto Amezcua and Maria Perez, champions of Andalusia
Arahal, a small town in Spain of about 20,000 inhabitants, at seventy kilometers southeast of Seville, hosted the Andalusian Road Walk Championships today. Arahal came to the fore on 29.11.2017 when in his area a passenger train...
25/01/2020 - Banned Russian race walking coach still working with athletes, official says
Yesterday afternoon at 3:48 am the Reuter agency from Moscow published a news story signed by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber regarding Viktor Cheghin. We offer it in its entirety and translated into Italian (while in the English version of ...
24/01/2020 - The year of the pig is greeted, from tomorrow the year of the mouse
Like every year, the group of Chinese (8 athletes) training in Italy closed the month at the sea of San Lorenzo al Mare with a competitive test, on the last day of their Chinese year of the pig. The year of the mo...
23/01/2020 - Around Taihu 2020: LOC's decision
Dear friends, within five days there has been a good number of answer from the international elite athletes who have already competed in Taihu in recent seasons and who would like to participate again this year. Some of these are very ...
23/01/2020 - Grosseto (ITA) - the 2020 outdoor season begins
Next Sunday the outdoor walking season also begins in Italy. And it begins with the first road competition of the Clubs Championship, what until a few years ago was called the Winter Race Walking Trophy and that we really like to remember with this...
21/01/2020 - Quarteira (POR): victories of Ana Cabecinha and Edna Barros in women and Pedro Dias in men
Outdoor track activity has started in Portugal. Over the weekend between 18 and 19 January 2020, the Algarve Regional Track Championships were held in Quarteira in the Algarve (POR). The walking events were held over the distance of: - 5.000m ...
20/01/2020 - Mostoles (ESP): Victory of Jose Ignacio Dias Velasquez in 20km men
Mostoles, a city 18km from Madrid and part of the Community of Madrid (ESP), hosted the Madrid Road Walking Championship on Saturday 18 January 2020 and valid for the 13th Mostoles Walking Trophy. The most important events were the absolute o...
19/01/2020 - Around Taihu 2020: LOC questions to athletes, coaches and managers
Dear friends, We were contacted by the head of the organization of the next edition of "Around Taihu" who asked us for a collaboration on a specific topic. Obviously, given the interest in the world of walking the classic end-of-sea...
19/01/2020 - Schinias (GRE): Dimitri Tsordias and Nikolitsa Andreopoulou win the 50km Championship in Greece
The Panhellenic Walking Championships were held in Schinias near Marathon (GRE). The races took place Sunday 19.1.2020 and the following distances were covered: - 50km men and women - 20km women - 10km women - 10 km U18 boys and girls plus so...
18/01/2020 - Kumming (CHN): Victories of Li Maocuo and Yin Jiaxing
Were held in Kumming (CHN) on Thursday 16 January 2020 high-altitude races for the Chinese Grand Prix of Race Walking. The senior and U20 races were held on the 20km distance while the U18 races o...
14/01/2020 - Leiria (POR): Victories of Miguel Rodriguez and Ines Henriques
Leiria (POR) hosted the 5th Leiria Race Walking Challenge on Sunday 5 January 2020, an event also combined with the Regional Race Walking Championships and open to all youth categories. As part of this meeting, the two ex...
13/01/2020 - Pechao (POR) - The 6th Ana Cabecinha Trophy
Saturday was a day of celebration for the Club Oriental de Pechao Portugal's historic club in the Algarve. Maybe the name will say little to someone, but for those who chew on their way around Europe, it is instead very easy to associate ...
13/01/2020 - Istanbul (TUR): Salih Korkmaz and Meryem Bekmez victorious in the Indoor Championships of Turkey
The Atakoy Arena in Istanbul (TUR) hosted the Indoor Championships of Turkey on Saturday 22 January 2020. The scheduled races were walked on the classic distances of 5,000m indoors for men and 3.000m indoors for women and were open to the Senior, U2...
12/01/2020 - Melbourne (AUS): Victories of Perseus Karlstrom (SWE) and Alana Barber (NZL)
The first test of the Supernova 2020 edition took place this morning. The races are normally held in Canberra, but this season the capital of Australia is experiencing an asphyxiating climate due to the suffocating heat emitted by nearby fires, so t...
10/01/2020 - Rochester (USA): USATF Niagara Indoor Track Championships - Victories of John Cody Risch and Miranda Melville
With a little delay we inform our readers of the USATF Niagara Indoor Track Championships which were held in Rochester, New York (USA) on Saturday 29 December 2019. The two male and female events were held on the distance of 5.000m indoors in...
09/01/2020 - Chelyabinsk (RUS): XXI Memorial Rodionova - A storm of personal best
The 21st edition of the Walking Memorial dedicated to Elena Rodionova, a local athlete who died at the age of 33 in 1988, took place in the indoor facility of UralGUFK in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The UralGUFK oval has seen a storm of ...
08/01/2020 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): Miroslav Uradnik and Maria Czaková 2020 indoor champions in Slovakia
Slovakia's indoor walking championships were held in Lower Bystrica (SVK) on Sunday 5 January 5.000m indoor men Dukla Banská Bystrica's 20-year-old athlete Miroslav Uradnik (SVK) won with the mark of 19:57.28 which repre...
07/01/2020 - Marcia dal Mondo in the year 2019
Today, with the closure of the Christmas and New Year holidays, we want to thank our readers for the attention they have had towards Marcia dal Mondo. Generally specialist websites measure themselves on the following parameters: - User...
06/01/2020 - Vittel - Nantes - Eubonne (FRA): David Kuster, Gabriel Bordier and Emilie Menuet on the shields
Saturday, January 4, 2020 in France it was competed in at least three indoor facilities in the usual standard distances of the 5,000m men of the 3,000m women. Starting from today January 6, part of the team of France (Clemence Beretta, Eloise...
05/01/2020 - Sheffield (GRB): England Indoor Race Walk Championships - Victories of Tom Bosworth and Hagen Spooner
Today the England Race Walking Indoor Championships took place in Sheffield (GBR) at the EIS facility. The scheduled races were two, both on the distance of the 3,000m indoor walk. 3.000m indoor walk men In his first race...
04/01/2020 - Parma (ITA): Federico Tontodonati won in the first indoor race of the season in Italy
At starts the season 2020 of indoor walking also in Italy in a race valid for the AICS Championships. The Sports department of the AICS National Directorate, in collaboration with the AICS Emilia Romagna Regional Committee, the AICS Provincial Commi...
03/01/2020 - Hong Kong (HKG): the first race 2020
Hong Kong also hosted its first race race in 2020. The event, called "The First Walk", took place on the new Pan Shek Kok Promenade course with the following scheduled races: - 50km open (men and women): 8:30 - 20km open (men and wom...
02/01/2020 - Athletes section: updated reports of the best 2019 men's world athletes (second 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 the areas of Consudatle, NACAC and Oceania: Nation ...
01/01/2020 - Tokyo (JPN): 68th meeting of the beginning of the year wins for Yusuke Suzuki and Kaori Kawazoe
A splendid sunny morning in Tokyo, with a clear sky, was the choreography of the first race of 2020 which was also valid for the 68th edition of the Tokyo Walking Championships. During the presentation we had indicated as the mandatory...