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30/12/2020 - Tokyo (JPN): on 1.1.2021 the first 20km men and 10km women of the 2021 season
The classic Tokyo start of the year race cannot be missed in Japan, which reached its 69th edition in 20121. The following distances are foreseen: 9:20: 20km elite men 11.20: 10km elite women and 10km high school m...
28/12/2020 - Saranks (RUS): start of the indoor activity with a bang - Yelena Lashmanova on the shields !
Indoor activity in Russia began on Sunday December 27, 2020 with the Indoor Championships of the Republic of Mordovia which were held in Saransk at the local 400m indoor facility. Important results have been obtained both...
27/12/2020 - The best Italian female athletes in 2019
The period of updates of the 2020 season of the entire database of athletes (Italian and foreign, men and women) of Marcia dal Mondo begins. Enjoy the reading. We have been finished updating the technical sheets of the mo...
25/12/2020 - Beijing (CHN): the medals of race walk (post CAS) awarded to the athletes
It was August 14, 2012 when two very interesting walking races took place along the Male in London. In the morning that of the 50km men and in the afternoon that of the 20km women. The order of arrival of both would then ...
24/12/2020 - 2020 race walk review
The usual complete and beautiful end-of-year report on World Athletics walk by Paul Warburton. Who knew what lay around the corner when Yusuke Suzuki blew away cobwebs on New Year’s Day with a swift 20...
23/12/2020 - Peter Fullager (AUS) passed away
Unfortunately, the disappearance of a former athlete still comes to haunt this strange 2020. In the early hours of yesterday 22 December Peter Fullager (AUS) passed away, who had also competed for the UK representative be...
21/12/2020 - Marcia dal Mondo: 15 years with you
On December 31, 2020, the 15th year of our site will expire. Born in early 2006 with the name Marcia Italiana then mutated its name in the current one. We want in this period of consensus summarizing, to the benefi...
20/12/2020 - Suqian (CHN): Wang Kauhua and Yang Jiayu wins in the Grand Canal Race Walking
A December full of competitions what is taking shape in China. There were two Taihu races last week, and during this week the athletes moved north to the city of Suqian in Jiangsu. Suqian is a city close to the more famou...
20/12/2020 - Olhao (POR): Victories of Ana Cabecinha (POR) and Tom Bosworth (GBR)
The 20km Road National Road Walking Championships for the year 2020 took place this morning in Olhao (POR). Not many athletes at the start, but also foreign athletes present both in the men's and women&#...
15/12/2020 - Around Taihu 2020 - Second stage - Around Taihu 2020 - Prima tappa - Victories of Zhang Jun e Yang Jiayu
Second stage of the “Around Taihu” this morning in Wuzhong. The races were held over the distance of 10 km. over a lap of 1 km. Departure for men at 9:00 am (local time) and for women at 9:45 am. Te...
15/12/2020 - Paul Nihil, a monument of British race walking, passed away
Paul Nihill - R.I.P Marcia dal Mondo is saddened to report that Paul Nihill (GBR) passed away on 14th December, aged 81. Paul competed in the 50km race walk at the 1964 (Tokyo), 1968 (Mexico) and 1972 (Munic...
13/12/2020 - Around Taihu 2020 - First stage - Victories of Zhang Jun and Yang Jiayu
As we anticipated on December 9, the end-of-season classic in China, “Around Taihu”, survived the Covid-19 pandemic. Obviously, the pandemic restrictions that impose a quarantine on those who must enter China ...
13/12/2020 - World Championships 2022 with 35km. Approved the entry standard and qualification system,
The World Athletics Council has approved the qualification systems for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 and the World Athletics U20 Championships Nairobi 2021. In line with the recommendation from the Race Walki...
12/12/2020 - St.Jeronimo (GUA): Erick Barrondo e Maritza Poncio new champions of Guatemala
The "Campionato Internacional Preparatorio de Marcha" of Guatemale took place on Saturday 12 December in San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz, which saw the participation of the most important athletes in the country. &nb...
11/12/2020 - Gary Westerfield awarded with the USA Track and Field Official's Hall of Fame
Oh yes, the USA will never cease to amaze us! I believe that while we all know that more Countries are used to offering their "Hall of Fame" for sporting merit, no one, save our US friends, was aware that the USA Track...
09/12/2020 - Around Taihu 2020 in a reduced format lives thanks to CAA and LOC
Good news for lovers of world walking. The organizers of Around Taihu have decided to carry out, even in the current season, the now classic multi-day competition on the roads and in the beautiful landscapes of Wuzhong. &...
08/12/2020 - Paris 2024: at the Olympic Games the men's 50km walk will be replaced by a mixed race to be defined
On Monday evening, the sports director of the International Olympic Committee, Kit McConnell, announced that the men's 50km walk will be replaced by a "mixed event" in track and field to be defined at the 2024 Pari...
08/12/2020 - Speed performances (20 km and 50 km - men) from 2001 to 2020
As already done for women, also for men we have published updated graphs of speed trends in walking events in the Statistics section of Marcia dal Mondo. As in previous years we have followed the model that: • limits...
07/12/2020 - Speed performances (20 km and 50 km) in women from 2001 to 2020
As every year in this period in the Statistics section the updated graphs of the speed trends in walking events have been published. As in previous years we have followed the model that: • limits the historical view ...
05/12/2020 - Trnava (SVK): a return to the classic: the 50,000m track walk.
Today Trnava in Slovakia hosted the 2020 edition of the Slovak 50km Championship. This year, however, the choice of the Slovakian federation was to race on the track (125 laps) and the intermediate milestones of the follow...
01/12/2020 - The Olympic Games 20km and 50km double (by Paul F. DeMeester)
Some of our readers will wonder why we rarely give any news about race walking in Australia and New Zealand. The answer is immediate and very simple. For the simple fact that in Tim Erickson's weekly column “Heel and T...
24/11/2020 - Sandro Damilano: awarded today by "The Gold Palm for technical merit"
"The Gold Palm for technical merit" is the highest honor conferred by CONI to sports technicians who have distinguished themselves by obtaining high national or international results from their athletes or teams, as we...
23/11/2020 - Sagamihara (JPN) - 99th edition of the Kanto Inter-University Track and field Championships
The 99th edition of the Kanto Inter-University Track and field Championships took place on Sunday 22 November at the Sagamihara City stadium, with two interesting running races on the 10,000m track walk distance. 1...
22/11/2020 - XVIII Galician Winter Race Walk Championship in memory of Jordi Llopart
Today on the tracks of the CGTD of Pontevedra the Galician Race Walk Championship of Winter was held, organized by the FGA and the Xunta de Galicia. Undoubtedly the truly spring weather, combined with the enormous motivation ref...
21/11/2020 - It's a real example of, "You can do anything''
What do Pierce O'Callaghan and Robert Heffernan have in common? Robert admits it: Pierce was the last Irishman to beat him in a walking race. Thus began the joint interview (perhaps it would have been better to call i...
21/11/2020 - The memory of Ernesto Canto by Maurizio Damilano
The sad news of Ernesto Canto's death makes 2020 a particularly painful year for the world race walk. In the spring Hartwig Gauder left us and in the autumn, a few days later, Jordi Llopart and Ernesto Canto. With all...
20/11/2020 - Ernesto Canto passed away
On the evening of today 20 November 2020 Ernesto Canto, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic champion who was fighting against one of the worst enemies: pancreatic cancer also extended to the liver, died at the age of 61. Our new...
14/11/2020 - Inzai (JPN): in three, with the victory of Eiki Takahashi, under the best world performance in the 10,000m track walk that belonged to Francisco Fernandez since 27.7.2008
A little while ago, in the late Japanese afternoon (15:30), the "2nd Juntendo University Long Distance Meeting" was held. A great day of walking on 10,000m track walk of the Japanese athletes, who thus kn...
13/11/2020 - Jordi Llopart, the charismatic and incisive ambassador of race walking
A beautiful memory of Jordi Llopart entrusted to the pen of Isidoro Hornillos Baz. I still remember the effusive atmosphere of the Spanish delegation that attended the Moscow Olympic Games (1980), when Jordi L...
10/11/2020 - Jordi Llopart first Olympic medalist in athletics in Spain is passed away
The Spanish Federation (RFEA) announced that Jordi Llopart, the first Olympic medalist in the history of national athletics, had died at the age of 68 due to a domestic accident that occurred while he was having lunch, a si...
10/11/2020 - Ernesto Canto (MEX) battles pancreatic and liver cancer
When bad news comes it never comes alone. Ernesto Canto, former Mexican Olympic champion walker in Los Angeles 84, is also battling against a pancreatic and liver cancer, as reported in the Mexican press by...
27/10/2020 - Inzai (JPN): Koki Ikeda achieves Asia's new best performance in 5,000m track walk (18:20.14)
The great performances of the Japanese walkers still continue. This time it happened in Inzai (JPN), city located less than 30km west of Narita (Tokyo airport), on Sunday 25 October during the 9th Meeting of the Junten...
26/10/2020 - Dudince (SVK): Victories of Matej Toth (SVK) and Agnieszka Ellward (POL)
As announced on Sunday 25 October the classic 50km of Dudince took place. Not many athletes at the start but the results are interesting 50km men Let's start immediately with the split times of To...
26/10/2020 - Grottammare (ITA): Excellent result for Andrea Agrusti in a splendid day of racing
From Fidal web-site by Luca Cassai The race walk specialists are still in action. On the streets of Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, 10km U18: In the Italian Championships, boys of the 10...
25/10/2020 - Budapest (HUN): The U23 35km Hungarian Championships
The U23 35km Hungarian Championships were held in Budapest on Sunday 25 October. The race was held around the Puskás Stadium, on an old-new course. The stadium was renovated. It has a 1k loop around, earlier were s...
23/10/2020 - Osaka (JPN): 97° Kansai Inter University Track&Field Championships
Friday, October 23 Venue Osaka(Municipal Nagai Studium #2) Men 10000m track walk Category 1 (14 participants, 1 DQ) and 2 (9 participants) 11:10 start Rainy, 19.0 degrees, 91%, N0.3m/sec 1 Subaru ISHIDA...
22/10/2020 - Tarragona (ESP): Eva Rico Rufas and Pablo Rodríguez Rojas champions of Spain U18
Last weekend the 69th edition of the Spanish U18 Championships took place in Tarragona with track walking races on the following distances: 10.000m for U18 boys and 5.000m for U18 girls 5.000m track walk U18 girls ...
21/10/2020 - Lugano (SUI): 20km canceled also in 2021
The Lugano Trophy and 17th Mario Albisetti Memorial will not take place in its traditional form in the spring of 2021. The organizers, SAL, have decided that the uncertainties related to the Covid-19 pandemic are too nume...
21/10/2020 - Saturday 24 October the 39th edition of the 50km of Dudince
On Saturday the 39th edition of the classic Slovak 50km will take place in Dudince, which was supposed to take place in the spring, but which was then delayed due to COVID-19. To date are entered: - 12 athletes rep...
20/10/2020 - Charleroi (BEL): Belgian National Race Walking Championships
Charleroi (BEL) hosted the Belgian National Walking Championships on Sunday 18 October 2020. The most important races were two: - that of women on the 10.000m track walk - that of the men on the distance of 20.000m...
20/10/2020 - Maksim Krasnov (RUS) positive in Voronovo, RUS (Sep. 5) banned for 4 years by RusAF
The Russian Press Agency TASS, published today the news that the All-Russia Federation of Athletics (RusAF) has announced that the Russian walker Maksim Krasnov (born in 1996) has been banned for four years for violating the ant...
19/10/2020 - Biberach (GER): Biberacher Race Walking Championships
Biberach, a city in Germany located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, is a city to visit. Right here are the oldest and best-preserved half-timbered houses in Germany, dating back to 1318, but the city is known for ...
19/10/2020 - Pecs HUN): the VII edition of the Róbert Märcz International Walking Competition
The VII edition of the Róbert Märcz International Walking Competition took place on Sunday 18 October 2020 in Pecs, Vasas in Hungary. Unfortunately, the competitions saw the presence only of athletes from Hungary, mo...
18/10/2020 - Modena (ITA): Best Italian performance ever and best 2020 world performance on 10km by Antonella Palmisano - Francesco Fortunato wins in 39:06
The day of race walking in Modena continues with the senior and U23 events. 10km women walk One of those historical records of race walk in Italy that dates back to 25.5.1997 falls. &nbs...
18/10/2020 - Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR): national race walking championships
Today, Sunday 18 October 2018, the National Walking Championships of Ukraine took place in Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR) with various events on 50km and 20km, and U20 and U18 races. 50km men Once again the victory came to ...
18/10/2020 - Modena (ITA): Simona Bertini and Davide Finocchietti win the Italian U20 walking championship; Giada Traina and Emiliano Brigante the one U18
The day of race walking in Modena begins with the U20 races. 10.000m U20 women The favorites were three: Sara Buglisi, Simona Bertini and Martina Casiraghi They immediately take the lead to lead the p...
17/10/2020 - Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR): the U16 National Championships
Tomorrow will take place in Ivano-Frankivsk (UKR) in the Ukrainian National Walking Championships with various events on 50km and 20km. Meanwhile, on Thursday 15 October 2020 at the National Oil and Gas Stadium in ...
14/10/2020 - Lisses (FRA): Victory for Aurélien Quinion (FRA) in the 6th Lisses Grand Prix
Last Sunday (11 October) on a completely flat 2km circuit, the 6th running Grand Prix in Lisses, a city located on the outskirts of Paris. The participation was interesting, even exceeding the expectations of the organize...
13/10/2020 - Modena (ITA): Sunday the Italian Walking Championships as part of the Endurance Festival
The "Endurance Festival" will take place on Sunday in Modena, combined with the Italian Individual Championships and the Race Walk Club Championship. This season we remind you that all the National Championships...
12/10/2020 - Växjö (SWE): Perseus Karlstrom champion of Sweden on the 20.000m track walk
We had not forgotten it, simply the overlapping of events from the end of September allowed us only today to publish the news of the Swedish National Championships which took place on the track of the Värendsvallen Sports C...
10/10/2020 - Podebrady (CZE) - Antonella Palmisano wins in 1:28:40 and Perseus Karlstrom in 1:19:43
The 88th edition of Podebrady Walking should have been held on 4.4.2020, but unfortunately the decision of the Government of the Czech Republic which declared a state of emergency, with effect from 13 March 2020, suspended all m...
09/10/2020 - Grodno (BLR): National Road Walking Championships of Belarus
Walking weekend also in Belarus (BLR) where on Saturday 3 October 2020 the National Road Walking Championships of the 2020 atypical season took place in the city of Grodno. The championships took place at the same time as...
08/10/2020 - Madrid (ESP): Alicia Lumbreras Gonzalez and Pedro Conesa Ceron U20 Champions of Spain
The past weekend saw the carring out of the Spanish U23 Championships in Madrid (ESP). The two races, both covering a distance of 10,000m track walk, were held at the Villahermoso stadium in Madrid at the following schedu...
07/10/2020 - Krusevac (SRB): The Serbian Track Walking Championships
The Serbian Track Walk National Championships took place on Sunday 4 October in Krusevac (SRB). The competitions took place at the Mladost Stadium and included the following sessions: - 10.000m senior track walk men - 10,...
07/10/2020 - Saturday 10 October the 88th edition of Podebrady Walking
On Saturday 10 October the 88th edition of the classic running race will take place in Podebrady (CZE), valid as the Permit Meeting of the European Athletics and as an International Walking Match (only between Italy and Cze...
06/10/2020 - Tilburg (NED): David Kuster wins his second 50km in 4:01:24
On Sunday 4th October the classic 50km race took place in Tilburg (NED), valid for the Dutch national championship of the 50km and for the same women's national championship of the 10km. These National Walking Champio...
05/10/2020 - Székesfehérvár (HUN): Hungarian U16 Team Walking Championships
The Hungarian U16 Team Walking Championships took place on Saturday 3 October in Székesfehérvár (HUN). An event aimed at rewarding the clubs that develop this specialty with young people. The s...
05/10/2020 - Forlì (ITA): Giulia Gabriele and Andrea Di Carlo Italian U16 champions
On Saturday in Forlì (ITA) the first day of the U16 National Review took place with the two walking races over the distance of 3.000m for women and 5.000m for men. 3.000m track walk U16 girls T...
04/10/2020 - Nairobi (KEN): Samuel Ireri Gathimba and Grace Wanjiru Njue national champions of Kenya
The Kenyan National Walking Championships on the 20km Olympic distance took place on Saturday 3 October 2020 in Nairobi. 20km men Reigning African champion Samuel Ireri Gathimba (KEN) had no difficult...
27/09/2020 - Békéscsaba (HUN): Mate Helebrandt and Barbara Kovacs champions of Hungary in the 20km
The National Road Walking Championships of Hungary took place this morning. The official distances were many, but the main one was that of 20km men and women. At these distances a 15km U20 female and a 15km U18 boys and a...
26/09/2020 - Warsaw (POL): Katarzyna Zdzieblo and Dawid Tomala win the 20km Championships of Poland
The National Championships of Poland of the 20km walk took place today in Warsaw (POL). A rather painful and last-hour assignment given the last-hour retreat of Zaniemysl (POL) announced just ten days ago. The competitions took place o...
26/09/2020 - Molfetta (ITA): 9th Meeting City of Molfetta - Exprivia Trophy
An intense weekend in Puglia (ITA). It all started yesterday in the late afternoon when the National Meeting of the City of Molfetta inaugurated the brand new stadium dedicated to Mario Saverio Cozzoli. A stadium expected for ab...
22/09/2020 - On 24 October 2020 the 50km of Dudince will also be open to women
We receive the following news from the organizers of the 50km of Dundince which we hasten to publish. In the coming traditional race walking permit meeting will be 50km for women as well. Originally we did not plan t...
21/09/2020 - Tatabánya (HUN): The U16 and U14 championships of Hungary
The editorial communicative choice that Marcia dal Mondo has made since the beginning has been to deal only with the walking activity in the world of seniors, the Juniors (now U20) and U18 leaving out the whole Masters world and the yo...
20/09/2020 - Taian (CHN): second day - the 50km and the extraordinary victory of Liu Hong
This morning at 6:30 in China (in the European night) the 50km of the China Autumn Walking Championships took place. Interesting number of entries (41) to which another 16 participants in the 30km U20 were added. &...
19/09/2020 - Kumagaya (JPN): Rain (also of personal best) at the All Japan Inter-Corporate Track & Field Championships
This morning (Japan time) the All Japan Inter-Corporate Track & Field Championships took place in Kumagaya (JPN). The day was ideal with temperatures ranging between 25°C (11:00 am) and 22°C (18:00). The initi...
19/09/2020 - Taian (CHN): Wang Kaihua wins China Autumn Walking Championships
First day of the Autumn Championships of China in Ta'ian in a splendid area with one of the symbolic mountains of Chinese culture, Mount Taishan, a pilgrimage destination for the Buddha who is venerated at 1,545m abov...
18/09/2020 - Alytus (LTU): 46th International Race Walking Festival
Today Friday 18 September 2020 Alytus hosts the 46th International Walking Festival, which this year also has the status of European Athletics Permit Meeting. Athletes from 12 Countries entered the Alytus competition: Irish, German, Hungarian...
17/09/2020 - Taian (CHN): China's Race Walking Championships on Saturday and Sunday
On Saturday and Sunday, the city of Tai'an will host the Chinese autumn national walking championship. In this pandemic year it is the most important event for the march of the Asian nation. The city of Tai'...
17/09/2020 - Diyarbakir (TUR): another Turkish record for Salih Korkmaz
The magical moment of the march in Turkey does not stop. Also on Wednesday 16 September 2020 there were club competitions (Ligi) sponsored by Spor Toto. The races reserved for the U18, U20 and senior categories for...
15/09/2020 - Kosice (SVK): Matej Toth and Maria Czakova win the finals of the club league of Slovakia
It may seem strange, but between yesterday and today both working days and not dedicated to weekends, the finals of the Athletics Club Championships (Finále atletickej ligy) take place in Kosice (SVK). Kosice city ...
14/09/2020 - Albi (FRA): Gabriel Bordier and Eloise Terrec win the French 10km Championships
Albi (FRA) about 600km south of Paris hosted the 10km French National Championships for the Elite category on Sunday morning. As for some years the competition that is included in the Elite National Championships on track...
14/09/2020 - Druskininkai (LTU): Marius Žiūkas and Brigita Virbalytė Lithuania Champions
The 28th International Druskininkai 2020 Sports Walking Competition and the 10km Lithuanian Sports Walking Championship were held in Druskininkai on Saturday. Olympians Marius Žiūkas and Brigita Virbalytė won the national champi...
13/09/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Bence Barnabas Venyercsan wins the 7th Super League final
Budapest hosted the 7th Hungarian Athletics Super League Final this weekend. Yesterday, Saturday 12 September, the men's 10,000m track walk took place in which eight athletes took part. Today Sunday 13 September there...
13/09/2020 - Madrid (ESP): Antia Chamosa and Alvaro Martin are the new Spanish Champions
Today and tomorrow the Absolute Spanish Championships are underway in Spain, now in their 100th edition. Due to COVID-19, the athletics specialties have been divided into four stages to ensure greater safety: - the throws...
13/09/2020 - Trieste (ITA) Leonardo Dei Tos wins the 12th Meeting in memory of Rodolfo Crasso
The morning dedicated to race walk in Trieste to honor the memory of the late Rodolfo Crasso, Honorary President of the San Giacomo Sports Group, saw a large participation in the youth categories to the delight of the current pr...
12/09/2020 - Samorin (SVK): prestigious results at the P-T-S meeting
Wonderful evening of walk, yesterday 11 September 2020, in Samorin (SVK) on the occasion of the 55th P-T-S Athletics Meeting. Two interesting races on the distance of 3.000m track walk were the corollary to the other race...
12/09/2020 - Niigata (JPN): Great results for Koki Ikeda (JPN) and Yuta Kota (JPN) in the 89th edition of the Japan Inter-University Championship
The city of Niigata (JPN) located northwest of Tokyo in front of the island of Sado and the capital of the prefecture of the same name is hosting the 89th edition of the Japan Inter-University Athletics Championships. The...
10/09/2020 - Bergamo (ITA): Victories of Valentina Trapletti and Federico Tontodonati
On Sunday 1 March 2020 Bergamo was supposed to host the Italian 50km Championship, valid as a selection for the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, a few days earlier the Italian Government following the growing resurgence of C...
09/09/2020 - Sunday 13.9.2020 the 12th Memorial Rodolfo Crasso in the 75th anniversary of the San Giacomo Sports Group
The date had gone unnoticed, but not to me. I apologize to our readers for the wanted delay of this news, but above all because this time I have decided to contact them in first person: those who administer websites shoul...
08/09/2020 - Bristonas (LTU): Brigita Virbalyte and Artur Mastianica win the 34th Mikenas memorial
On Saturday (5 September 2020) the 34th Memorial in honor of Antanas Mikenas, the only Lithuanian Olympic medalist, took place in Bristonas (LTU). The event, which traditionally takes place in spring and on the streets of...
07/09/2020 - "Amarcord": Don Thompson 60 years ago won the 50km of the Olympic Games in Rome
Today is the 60th anniversary of the 50km road walk of the Olympic Games in Rome which took place on 7 September 1960. 1. Don THOMPSON (GBR) 4:25:30.0 OR 2. John LJUNGGREN (SWE) 4:25:47.0 3. Abdon PAMICH (ITA)...
07/09/2020 - Majano (ITA): Excellent result of Emiliano Brigante on 5.000m track walk
The Regional Championships of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the U18 and U20 categories took place this weekend in Majano near Udine (ITA). The walking events took place on the second day, Sunday 6.9.2020 starting at 19:02. &nb...
06/09/2020 - In Niigata (JPN) the 89th Inter-University Championships and in Kumagaya (JPN) the 68th Inter Corporate All Japan Championship
Next weeks we will have two national level competitions in Japan. One is for university students, the other is for corporate workers. The 89th All Japan Inter-University Track and Field Championships 11 - 13 Sep Ra...
06/09/2020 - Voronovsky (RUS): At 50km of Russian Championships, Lashmanova (3:50:42) and Cheparev (3:43:28)
The Russian walking championship, which takes place this weekend in Voronovsky (RUS), started today with the 50km race. 50km men Dementiy Cheparev (RUS) won in men over this distance with the best res...
06/09/2020 - 71/5000 Alba (ITA) - Excellent results by Federico Tontodonati and Riccardo Orsoni
Finally, even in Italy we are back on track. After the 10,000m track walk held in Molfetta (18.7.2020) and Trieste (6.8.2020) some 5,000m on track followed in Molfetta (25.7.2020 and again 1.8.2020), La Spezia (30.7....
05/09/2020 - Székesfehérvár (HUN): Victories of Mate Helebrandt and Viktoria Madarasz (with national record in 5.000m track walk)
Székesfehérvar (city for an Italian with an unpronounceable name) just under halfway between Lake Balaton and Budapest (HUN)), is hosting the finals of the Hungarian Championships for Clubs. Yesterday...
05/09/2020 - Madrid - Caceres (ESP): The club cup finals in Spain
The Finals of the National Club Championships were held in Spain. The finals took place in four different venues as follows: - Madrid VLL: hosted the women's final of the Iberdrola Golden Cup - Madrid VLL: hosted the ...
05/09/2020 - Ekrem Kocak (TUR): Another Turkish record for Salih Korkmaz (39:26.92) and excellent result for Evin Demir (44:43.85)
The Ekrem Kocak Track Athletics Championships in Turkey saw a great walking competition. 10.000m track walk men Victory and high performance to Salih Korkmaz who stopped the clock in 39:26.92, a new r...
04/09/2020 - Jane and Lamberto twenty years later
Walker Jane Saville experienced the agony of being disqualified just short of an Olympic gold medal at the Sydney Games in 2000. But how did it feel to be the official who showed her the red card? by Iain Payten Depu...
01/09/2020 - Dublin (IRL): Callum Wilkinson smashes Ian McCombie's British 10,000m race walk record with a stunning 39:52.05 a record had stood since 1989
The Irish Open and U23 Championships were held at the Morton Stadium in Santry (IRL) on the weekend between 29 and 30 August with the two running races. The two walking events took place on Saturday 29th with the followin...
31/08/2020 - Bursa (TUR): Victories of Salih Korkmaz and Evin Demir
The National Super Lig Championships were held in Bursa, in the Marmara region, during which two walking tests were held over the distance of 5,000m track walking, reserved for men and women. 5.000m. track walk men...
31/08/2020 - Alessandria (ITA). Good results from Tontodonati and Chiesa; best seasonal U18 world performance for Diego Giampaolo
Satisfaction for the organizers of the Alexandria Meeting on the march, even if in the past few days some misunderstanding had hinted at a not high level participation. It would seem that the meeting originally pla...
31/08/2020 - Caceres (ESP): Alvaro Martin, on his back to racing, wins the 5.000m track walk in 19:59.39
Álvaro Martín Uriol, European champion in Berlin 2018, returned on Saturday (29/8) to competitive activity on the track of the "Ciudad Deportiva" de Cáceres field during the 1st day of the Absolute...
30/08/2020 - Drunen (NED): the Dutch championships on 20.000m track walk
The National Championships of the 20,000m track walk took place on Saturday 29 August in Drunen (NED) to which some side races were combined. An interesting participation also with foreign athletes who saw at the s...
30/08/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Still victories for Tiziana Spiller and Leon Bank in Hungary
One week away from the Hungarian U18 National Championships held in Debrecen (HUN) this weekend Budapest hosted the finals of the Hungarian Championships for the Youth League today with the two track walk events over the 5,000m ...
29/08/2020 - Wloclawek (POL): Great result for Katarzyna Zdzieblo and victory for Dawid Tomala
The 96th Polish National Track Championships are being held in Wloclawek (POL). The two walking events took place over the traditional distances of 10.000m track walk for men and 5.000m track walk for women. ...
25/08/2020 - The history of race walking in Italy through its medals
Revisiting and rewriting the history of race walking in Italy, both male and female, was certainly not a walk in a Finnish forest on a path strewn with rose petals. One hundred eight years of history with names, even the ...
24/08/2020 - Voronovo (RUS): Great performances by Marina Pandakova-Novikova and Vasily Mizinov. U18 Dmitry Gramachkov on the shields
Voronovo, near Moscow (RUS) yesterday hosted a new edition of the All Russian Race Walking Meeting “Moskovia” which in the past was known as Voronovo Meeting. However, the distance was kept on the standard of ...
22/08/2020 - Debrecen (HUN): Tiziana Spiller and Leon Bank National U18 Champions of Hungary
Debrecen (HUN) today hosted the National U18 Championships of Hungary with two track walking races over the 5.000m distance. Very few competitors at the start: only three women and two men. 5.000m track walk...
20/08/2020 - Lutsk (UKR): Great results at the National Championships of Ukraine
On the day of August 15th, the Ukrainian Athletics Championships which took place on the track of the Avangard Stadium in Lutsk, a city in the north-west of the country, were opened by the two walking events. This year, both rac...
19/08/2020 - Turku (FIN): Aleksi Ojala and Anniina Kivimäki are Finnish champions of 2020
The national walking championships of Finland were held in Turku as part of the "Kaleva Games". Walking events were held on the track distances of 20,000m for men and 10,000m for women inside the stadium dedicat...
17/08/2020 - Budapest (HUN): Norbert Toth and Petra Zahoran U20 champions of Hungary
Another weekend of Championships in Hungary. The Hungarian U23 Championships took place in Budapest, together with the two walking events (both on the 5,000m track walk distance) reserved to Juniors U20. 5.000m tra...
16/08/2020 - Trnava (SVK): Victories of Miroslav Uradnik and Maria Czakova
Mid-August of walk for Matej Toth. In fact, yesterday the Olympic champion of the 50km took part in the third phase of the team championship of the Slovak Republic which was held in Trnava (SVK). The two previous stages t...
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 - 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...
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...
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 ...
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...
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 - 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...
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 - 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...
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 - 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 ...
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...
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 - 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. ...
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...
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 - 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...
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...
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 - 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. &...
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...
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...
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...
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 - 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...
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...
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. ...
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 - 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 - 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 - 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...
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...
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...
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 - 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:...
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 ...
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 - 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 ...
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 - 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...
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 - 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...
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) ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...