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31/12/2022 - The Athletics Integrity Unit has finally closed the "case" of the South African race-walking star Lebogang Shange
The Athletics Integrity Unit has finally closed the "case" of the South African race-walking star Lebogang Shange who had failed a doping test for a steroid‚ t on 4th November 2019. The athlete‚ who ended fourth a...
27/12/2022 - Tokyo (JPN): Yamanishi best athlete od the year 2022 in Japan; a lot of walkers awarded in the Country of Rising Sun
On December 15th, the Japan Federation of Athletics Federations (JAAF) will hold the “JAAF Athletics Awards 2022” at a hotel in Tokyo to honor athletes who have shown outstanding performance in 2022. This year marks t...
26/12/2022 - Tokyo (JPN): 71st New Year's Race Walking Tournament preview
It will still be night in Europe when the 71st New Year's Race Walking Tournament was held in Tokyo around the Jingu Gaien, Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, also valid as the 85th Race Walking Tournament of the Tokyo Region Cha...
24/12/2022 - Getafe (ESP) - XXIV edition of the Trophy "Cerro Buenavista"
On Sunday (18th) took place in Getafe, the 24th edition of the Associação Desportiva Cerro Buenavista Walking Trophy . The most important event was the 10km race walk valid as National Masters Championships. ...
20/12/2022 - IOC-WA: Qualification System - Games of the XXXIII Olympiad - Paris 2024
In his “Qualification System for the Games od the XXXIII Olympiad - Paris 2024” dated 16 December 2022 IOC and World Athletics indicates the following Road Events of Race Walking Events 20km men race walk (48 ...
18/12/2022 - Dublin (IRL): Aurelien Quinion (FRA) and Mayara Vicentainer (BRA) are the winners of 35km open Irish Championships
The 35km Irish National Open Championships took place today in Dublin (IRL) and the 20km. The competition was valid as a Bronze level of the World Athletics Race walking Tour. 35km men - at 5km: Aurelien Quinion (...
06/12/2022 - Melbourne (AUS): The Australian 35km National Championships
Report by Stuart Cooper, AUS After weeks of La Nina-driven wintry weather in which all local walkers had trained leading up to this meet, a two-day window of blast-furnace summer heat arrived at Fawkner Park – right...
26/11/2022 - Riccione (ITA): Technical seminar of the Italian Race Walking Judges Panel
Last weekend Riccione hosted a two-day technical-rule debate which saw the Judges of the Italian Race Walking Panel as protagonists. The Head Coach of the race walking inside FIDAL National Structure (Alessandro Gandellini), together w...
24/11/2022 - Leone, first child of Eleonora Giorgi and Matteo Giupponi was born in Milan today
It is no news that Eleonora Anna Giorgi and Matteo Giupponi are life partners as well as two of the most titled athletes of the Italian race walk. The news however is that this morning little Leone, their first child, was born i...
08/11/2022 - The updated women history reports after Eugene, Oregon 2022
In the “History” section of Marcia dal Mondo we published the updated history reports after Eugene, Oregon 2022. Today we publish all updated reports of women. WOMEN 2022 - 18th ed. Eugene, Orego...
05/11/2022 - Toledo (ESP): Diego Garcia and Raquel Gonzalez win the Espada Toledana 2022
On Saturday, starting at 16:30 in the one-kilometer circuit of Reconquista Avenue (and Ecuador Street), the edition 2022 of Espada Toledana will be held. Scheduled events will start with the U12 category, to continue with the U14, both...
03/11/2022 - The updated history men reports after Eugene, Oregon 2022
In the “History” section of Marcia dal Mondo we published the updated history reports after Eugene, Oregon 2022. For the moment we have only updated men. The women will be updated over the next week. ME...
29/10/2022 - Zittau (GER): Lusatian International Race Walking Meeting valid as World Athletics Race Walking Tour - Bronze Level
Saturday 29 October tick place in Zittau (GER) the Lusatian International Race Walking Meeting valid as World Athletics Race Walking Tour - Bronze Level. 35km men The 35km men was the most important event of the day. Eig...
27/10/2022 - Technical analisys of most important World/Area competitions in 2022 - Women
The second part of the technical statistical analysis of the judgment in the three main races of 2022, reserved for women and some comparisons with men. Technical/statistical analysis of the judgment in the thre...
26/10/2022 - Roumanian National Race walking Championships 2022
Timisoara hosted Sunday October 23 the National Race walking Championships of Roumania Men’s and women’s events started on road. 10km men Thirteen athletes at the start in the men's event. Vi...
25/10/2022 - Technical analisys of most important World/Area competitions in 2022 - Men
Seated at a table in a restaurant on an after-race evening in a dinner with friends, judges, coaches and lovers of walking, someone tickled us to summarize this thought. The topic: "Give us your opinion: how do ...
23/10/2022 - Takahata (JPN): Yuta Hoga and Miyu Naito win the 59th All Japan 20km Race Walk Takahata
The competition venue for 20km will be the same of 35km and located as usual in the Takahata Chamber of Commerce and Industry Area. The start of the athletes competing in All Japan race walking tournament was 8:10 while t...
23/10/2022 - Takahata (JPN): Toshikazu Yamanishi and Serena Sonoda win the 59th All Japan 35km Race Walk Takahata
This morning, Japan time, the 59th edition of the All Japan Race Walking took place in Takahata. The edition on 2022 will be valid as: - Selection of the Japan National Team (35km) for Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships - Sele...
22/10/2022 - Bangalore (IND): Ram Baboo and Payal are the winners the 35km of the 61st Indian Championships
The 35 km walking events have been scheduled on the last day (19/10) of the Open Championships in Athletics in India, in Bangalore (Karnataka). 35km men Twenty athletes at the start. In 35km men vict...
17/10/2022 - Lisses (FRA): the 8th edition of the Grand Prix de Lisses valid as Ile de France Championships
The 8th edition of the Grand Prix de Lisses took place in Lisses (FRA) on Sunday 16 October 2022 and this year was also valid as the Ile de France 20km Championship. A good group of starters in both the 20km and 10km races. As u...
17/10/2022 - Ivano Frankivsk (UKR): The 35km and 20km Ukrainian National Championships
The 35km and 20km Ukrainian National Championships took place in Ivano Frankivsk (UKR), despite the ongoing war situation. We have decided to limit ourselves, for the moment, to the presentation of the results and those w...
17/10/2022 - Pecs (HUN): the annual Hungarian Märcz Róbert Emlékverseny
The annual Hungarian Märcz Róbert Emlékverseny was held this year also in Pécs but the tradition has been changed: the competition was organized on the track instead of the road. The meeting was o...
17/10/2022 - Bangalore (IND): Suraj Panwar and Ravina are the winners the 20km of the 61st Indian Championships
On the first day (15/10) of the Open Championships in Athletics of India, held in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, the 20km walking races were held on a road circuit and in the area surrounding the «Sree Kanteerava&ra...
16/10/2022 - Grottammare (ITA): Victories of Gabriele Gamba and Eleonora Dominici in senior and Emiliano Brigante and Alexandrina Mihai in U20
The beautiful seafront of Grottammare hosted, as has become tradition, the last walking race of the 2022 season. The sunny day with an ideal temperature (between 17° and 21°C) and an acceptable level of humidity (around ...
15/10/2022 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): Dominik Černý and Hana Burzalová win thé 20.000m track walk of Slovak Championships
The Slovak track and field season is still not definitively closed. Only race walking can put a point behind it. Today Saturday, October 15, the Slovak 20,000m track walk championship will take place at the re...
14/10/2022 - Asuncion (PAR): Caio Bonfim (BRA) and Viviane Santana Lyra (BRA) are the winner of 20km walk of the 12th edition of the South American Games
The 35km of the 12th edition of the South American Games that takes place in Asunción, is scheduled with start at 6:00am for men and the women at 6:15am and will be carried out on a road circuit in the Bay of Asunción (Cl...
14/10/2022 - The head coach of the Slovak Athletics Federation, Martin Pupiš, will retire from this position on 31 October after ten years.
The coach of the Slovak Athletics Federation, Martin Pupiš, has informed the Federation that he will retire from this position on 31 October after ten years. Martin Pupiš, 44 years old from Banská Bystrica is a for...
12/10/2022 - Asuncion (PAR): Glenda Morejon (ECU) and Brian Daniel Pintado (ECU) are the winner of 20km walk of the 12th edition of the South American Games
The 12th edition of the South American Games that takes place in Asunción, capital of Paraguay (October 1st to 15th), an event within the scope of the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) that moves 4500 athletes from 34 ...
09/10/2022 - Monthey (SUI) - Swiss Track Championships and Epinassay - Mex
An interesting championship weekend that took place on Saturday and Sunday in Montey (SUI). On Saturday the track races valid for the Swiss Open Championship took place on the distances of the 10,000m track walk for men and 5.00...
09/10/2022 - Takahata (JPN): October 23 will host the 59th All Japan 35km Race Walk Takahata
The 59th All Japan 35km Race Walk Takahata Tournament will be held in Takahata on Sunday October 23, 2022. LOC will reduce the scale as a countermeasure against the new corona infectious disease and ask for the unde...
07/10/2022 - Kimberly García and Perseus Karlstrom are the winners of the World Race Walking Tour 2022
World Athletics has published the final standings of the World Race Walking Tour, an event that takes place annually and rewards the best athletes in the world who obtain the best results on the world walking circuit. &nb...
02/10/2022 - Modena (ITA): Victories of U23 Clubs Championships to Andrea Cosi and Alexandrina Mihai
First day of competitions in Modena (ITA), for the national final of the Italian U23 Club Championships. And we find once again the two names that characterised the final part of the season: that of Andrea Cosi in men and...
01/10/2022 - Serena Di Fabio and Alessio Coppola are the winner of the Italian U16 Championships
The Italian U16 Championships are underway in Caorle near Venice. This is an important end-of-season race that also assigns two trophies (one for men and one for women) to the winning region in the 20 track specialties. 3....
30/09/2022 - Surgery for the Olympic champion of the 20km walk Antonella Palmisano
Surgery for the Olympic champion of the 20km walk Antonella Palmisano, operated yesterday morning at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute in Bologna. Today the athlete underwent surgery to remove the fibrous septum englobing the sciatic ne...
29/09/2022 - Whiting, New Jersey (USA): Maria Michta-Coffey and Jason Jya Hsin Cherng have been the winners of the USA National Championships
On Sunday, September 25, the US National Open Walking Championships took place in Whiting, New Jersey (USA). Whiting is an unincorporated community located on the west side of Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United Sta...
25/09/2022 - Finals of the Italian U18 Clubs Championships: lights and shadows
In the various locations scattered along the Italian peninsula, the finals of the U18 Clubs Championships on track were held which, as we recall, also include the two walking events over the distance of 5,000m for both boys and ...
25/09/2022 - The 63rd edition of the Facoetti-Dahm Challenge
This morning the 63rd edition of the Facoetti-Dahm Challenge took place around the track of the Montreuil Stadium in the suburbs of Paris. The race was valid as the last race of the 2022 World Athletic Race Walkin...
21/09/2022 - Rieti (ITA): Next Saturday the final of Italian U18 Clubs Championships. The locations: Vittorio Veneto, Clusone, Abbadia San Salvatore, Molfetta
As every year, the last weekends of September are reserved for the finals of the Club's Championships on the track which also include the waling events. We still hear the brilliant result obtained in the Gold Final, the one valid f...
20/09/2022 - Debrecen (HUN): The Hungarian Club Championships Final
The Hungarian Club Championships Final was held in Debrecen last weekend. The best 24 clubs fought for the points, as the first 16 clubs will stay next year in the first league. 5.000m track walk women ...
19/09/2022 - Manuel Teijeiro García (ESP) race walking photograph passed away past night
Once again the Galician Athletics family is mourning the death of Manuel Teijeiro García past night . Born in Ferrol in 1954, he was throughout his life a person closely linked to athletics, especially during the federal mandate...
18/09/2022 - Brescia (ITA): Andrea Cosi obtains the best Italian (sixth European) performance of the 2022 season on 10,000m track walk
It was 7.41 pm when in the stadium in Brescia named to Gabre Gabric the athletes who would have given life to one of the most beautiful track waking events of the 2022 season in Italy lined up with the starter's gunshot. Thirteen m...
16/09/2022 - The section in Italian will be updated only for news of high interest for the Italian public
Probably our most regular readers have already noticed this small change: the opening page of the Marcia dal Mondo site is now in English and no longer in Italian. This change had been in the air for some ti...
15/09/2022 - Various locations in Italy will host the finals of the Club Championships this weekend
The weekend of 17-18 September 2022 will be an intense weekend. In fact, the national track finals of the Club Championships will take place, the most awaited ones. The gold final will take place in Brescia, the most important o...
13/09/2022 - Győr (HUN): Final Super League 2022
The Hungarian SuperLeague Final was held last weekend in Győr (that venue hosted the EYOF in 2017). In the SuperLeague series the athletes could get points during the season by their place on different distances and some e...
13/09/2022 - Audience of web-site Marcia dal Mondo from 1.1.2022 to 31.8.2022
It has recently appeared in the specialized press for web sites in Italy that sanctions are foreseen by the privacy guarantor for those who continue to use Google Analytics 3 or similar services on their websites and also for those who...
12/09/2022 - Pescara (ITA): the 4th edition of the U23 Mediterranean Championships
The city of Pescara (ITA) hosted the 4th edition of the U23 Mediterranean Athletics Championships on the weekend of 11 and 12 September 2022. The organization was that of the Mediterranea Athletics Union - MAU The ...
11/09/2022 - Helsinki (FIN): Finnkampen 2022
Last weekend offered athletics lovers one of the most exciting matches between neighboring countries. The very traditional match between Finland and Sweden took place this year at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki (FIN). Th...
05/09/2022 - Fifty years ago (3/9/1972) Bernd Kannenberg won the Olympic 50km for the first time under the 4 hour wall
Fifty years ago on 3 September, two days before an immense tragedy, Bernard Kannenberg won the first Olympic 50km in Munich (GER) with a mark under 4:00:00. After an exciting fight with Venyamin Soldatenko (USSR) he set the new Olympic...
04/09/2022 - Supernova 7: recruiting elite female racewalkers as possible subject participants
In 2021 Athletics Australia partnered with Australian Catholic University (ACU) to establish an industry partnership designed to facilitate further research on elite race walkers. Recently Brent Vallance National Event Gr...
03/09/2022 - Gdansk (POL): 55th Race Walking and Nordic Walking Festival
In the wake of the successes in Eugene, Oregon 2022, the activity of race walking does not stop in Poland. The 55th Race Walking and Nordic Walking Festival was held in Gdansk (POL) on Saturday, September 3, which was com...
30/08/2022 - Athletics Integrity Unit finds Russian race walkers Ivanov and Yerokhin guilty of further doping offences
By now we are also losing count of the doping sanctions that are imposed on the Russian walkers, who in any case have been out of the most important competitions for years. However, there is an obligation to report it to our rea...
29/08/2022 - Tom Bosworth (GBR): the farewell race in Tonbridge
British race walker Tom Bosworth has completed the final event of his career at his first home club in Kent. On Monday 29th August, Tonbridge AC, in Kent, held its 75th anniversary of the athletics club. It was here in 20...
22/08/2022 - Antigoni Ntrismpioti, the female walker of the moment
After waiting 19 years for her first major championship medal - a gold in the 35km race walk on Tuesday (16), Antigoni Ntrismpioti made it two titles in the space of five days as she battled her way to a stunning double in the 2...
21/08/2022 - Freeport (BAH): Jose Eduardo Flores Ortiz and Mirna Sucely Ortiz Flores win NACAC Open Championships 2022
The 2022 NACAC (North America Central America Caribbean) Open Championships are underway in Freeport, Grand Bahama (BAH). The two running races over the 20,000m distance on the track took place this morning at 6:30 local time (1...
21/08/2022 - Munich (GER): Antigoni Ntrismpioti (GRE) wins the 20km after winning the 35km
The sixth day of competition welcomes the walkers to Monaco on the occasion of the European Championships with the two finals of the 20km walk. The temperature is ideal around 17 ° Celsius, with a very h...
20/08/2022 - Munich (GER): Alvaro Martin wins the 20km on the best day in Spain
The sixth day of competition welcomes the walkers to Munich on the occasion of the European Championships with the two finals of the 20km walk. The temperature is ideal around 17° Celsius, with a very high humidity (93%) and...
17/08/2022 - Olympian Robyn Stevens’ Sex Assault Allegations Spur Lifetime Ban of former Coach
(From Times of San Diego, CA - USA) Olympian Robyn Stevens’ Sex Assault Allegations Spur Lifetime Ban of former Coach When Robyn Stevens competed at the 2020 Olympic Trials race walk in Santee, she asked that her aid stati...
17/08/2022 - Tom Bosworth hangs up his shoes
“It’s with a very heavy heart I’ve decided to withdraw from the European Championships in Munich,” he announced today on Facebook. “This was due to be my final major championships. Th...
16/08/2022 - Munich (GER): Miguel Angel Lopez wins 35km of the European Championships 2022
The second day of competition welcomes the walkers to Monaco on the occasion of the European Championships with the two finals of the 35km walk. The temperature is ideal around 18° Celsius, with a humidity of around 70%. The start ...
16/08/2022 - Munich (GER): Antigoni Ntrismpioti wins 35km of European Championships 2022
The second day of competition welcomes the walkers to Monaco on the occasion of the European Championships with the two finals of the 35km walk. The temperature is ideal around 18° Celsius, with a humidity of around 70%. The start ...
10/08/2022 - Munich 2022: entry lists
European Athletics has published the definitive list of the entrants to the four walking events (but actually there will be three because the 35km will take place "mixed") who will deliver the title and medals of the European...
07/08/2022 - Birmingham (GBR): Evan Dunfee (CAN) wins Commonwealth Games 2022
The men's race walking event of the Commonwealth Games over the 10,000m track walk sees only 10 athletes at the start, but with a very interesting chronometric level. The following countries are represented: Australia (Rhydian Cowl...
06/08/2022 - Wake up Italy take the technique back in hand, before it's too late
A month ago, on July 7 in Jerusalem, the tour de force of the Italian and European walk began, which will end with the European Championships in Munich in about ten days. But we can already draw conclusions from a technical point of vi...
06/08/2022 - Birmingham (GBR): Jemima Montag (AUS) wins Commonwealth Games 2022
The women's competition scheduled for today at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022 starts at 10:32 am The first 5km: The Indian athlete Priyanka immediately leads the group - ...
05/08/2022 - Cali (COL): Karla Ximena Serrano (MEX) new U20 world champion in the 10,000m walk.
The morning of Cali proposes the two walking races at the Pascal Guerrero stadium. The first race on the program is the 10,000m U20 track walk for women, the start of which is scheduled for 8:30 local time. 10.000m...
05/08/2022 - Cali (COL): Mazlum Demir (TUR) wins in front of Ismail Benhammouda (ALG) and Hayrettin Yldiz (TUR)
A little more complicated is the reading of the men's start list with only 28 athletes at the start but with many athletes with very similar marks. The season leader is Mazlum Demir (TUR) who also boasts the o...
01/08/2022 - Antonella Palmisano will most likely not participate in the European Championships in Munich
We had known this for a few days, but we had kept secrecy until the same athlete decided to make the official communication: Antonella Palmisano will not participate in the 2022 European Athletics Championships. In an int...
28/07/2022 - Budapest 2023: entry standard and quota ranking approved
The World Athletics Council has also approved the “entry standards” for the walking races for the next World Championships which will take place in Budapest in 2023 between the 19th and 27th of August. The sta...
27/07/2022 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): Lena Auvray (FRA) wins at EYOF 2022
The second day of the Eyofs in Banska Bystrica (SVK) draws to a close with the women's walking race over the 5,000m track walk Thirteen athletes representing Greece, Romania, Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, ...
26/07/2022 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): victory of Daniel Monfort Moreno (ESP) at the EYOF 2022
Banska Bystrica (SVK) will host from 25 to 30 July the Olympic festival of European youth. On the first day, the men's walking race on the distance of 5.000m on the track Only six athletes at the start repre...
25/07/2022 - The 35km of Oregon 2022: an epochal change
If we had to choose one of the four walking events of the Oregon 2022 World Championships for what it left us, we would have no doubt: the 35km men. Easy, you might say, an Italian won it! No, that's not how Masatora Kawano had won...
24/07/2022 - Eugene, Oregon 2022: Massimo Stano win 35km.
If there is a walking race in the Oregon 2022 World Championships, this, at least for us, is the men's 35km. The second (but first in a World Championship) experience of the athletes on distance, the possibilities of matchin...
22/07/2022 - Oregon 2022 World Championships - 35km women.
6:15 am from Eugene. Last week's rematch on the 20km airs, but to be honest, the race that will establish which of the two most starter athletes (Kimberly Garcia-Leon, PER and Qieyang Shenjie, CHN will be the most popular athlete o...
21/07/2022 - Seventy years ago Dordoni won in Helsinki
The July 21, 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the beautiful victory of Giuseppe “Pino” Dordoni at the 1052 Olympic Games in Helsinki. Marcia dal Mondo wants to pay homage to this great "father" of race wa...
18/07/2022 - Torrent (ESP): Spain's U20 National Championships
The U20 National Championships of Spain took place this weekend in Torrent, a city located about thirty kilometres southwest of Valencia. Two walking events took place as follows: - 10,000m track walk for women, Saturday 16 July at 10:...
17/07/2022 - Focus on Kimberly Garcia-Leon
Now we can say with certainty: another South American athlete, Gabriela Kimberly Garcia-Leon, has also entered the club of the "top competitors". For most people, it may be a new name, a flower that has ...
16/07/2022 - Oregon 2022 World Championships - 20km men.
First day of the 2022 Oregon World Championships. For the chronicle of the 20km men we report entirely what Simon Turnbill wrote for World Athletics. For our part, let's just add a few split times &...
16/07/2022 - Italian race walking on the first day of the Oregon 2022 World Championships
We woke up from a beautiful dream that a dream was not: Sapporo 2021. It is true that the top athlete, Antonella Palmisano, was missing, but we cannot always find excuses and we must face reality, which today tells us that our h...
15/07/2022 - Oregon 2022 World Championships - 20km women.
First World Day of Oregon 2022 World Championships 20km women Fast start on the foot of 4:21/km which sees 9 athletes in the lead. The four Chinese Liu, Qieyang, Ma and Wu, the Peruvian Garcia-Leon, the Austral...
12/07/2022 - Eugene, Oregon 2022: entry lists are published
World Athletics has published the entry list for the four walking races of the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon 2022. A very brief analysis 20km men Toshikazu Yamanishi, world champion in Doha and bronz...
10/07/2022 - Miskolc (HUN): The U23 and U20 national track championships
The U20 and U23 National Track Championships are taking place this weekend in Miskolc. On the first day of the program, the four walking races for the U20s and for the U23s for both men and women took place, all over the 5,000m ...
08/07/2022 - Rieti (ITA): Emiliano Brigante and Alexandrina Mihai (with the second world performance of the season) are the new Italian U20 champions
Intense weekend in Italy with the Italian U20 Championships on the track. And immediately we start on Friday morning with the two tests that assign the title of the race walking events. 10.000m track walk U20 men &...
08/07/2022 - The memory of Sergio Vazquez by Isidoro Hornillos Baz appeared today in La Voz de Galica
En estos momentos en los que me afloran un sinfín de emociones y vivencias compartidas con Sergio Vázquez durante décadas, pienso en la frase del dramaturgo Oscar Wilde, referida a que «cualquiera puede hacer...
07/07/2022 - Jerusalem (ISR): European U18 Championships.
Beautiful sunny day in Jerusalem for the two walking races of the U18 European Championships. The first race is that of the U18 boys who leave for some technical problem at 6:07. 10,000m track walk U18 boys Immedia...
07/07/2022 - Unfortunately Sergio Vazquez is no longer with us; the Cantones de la Coruna lose their creator
With all the pain in the world I learn the news that Sergio Vazquez has just died. I met him on Saturday 28 May in his wheelchair positioned on the finish line of the 35th edition of the Cantones de la Coruna. He had a we...
04/07/2022 - Best wishes to Erica Rocha de Sena and Andrés Choco for the birth of Kylian Andrés
Having forgotten the Olympic disappointment for a medal, Erica Rocha de Sena thought it was a good time to dedicate herself to motherhood. Andres Chocho personally announced it to us in La Coruna that he would become a father an...
01/07/2022 - Valledupar (COL): Karla Johana Jaramillo and Jordi Rafael Jimenez win the XIX Bolivarian Games
The Bolivarian Games are a multidisciplinary sporting event belonging to the Olympic cycle, which takes place at an international-regional level every four years among the Bolivarian nations, those that have achieved their indep...
28/06/2022 - Caen (FRA): Gabriel Bordier and Clémence Beretta win at the French national championships with the new French record
The two walking events on 10,000m track walk distance of the French National Championships were scheduled for Sunday morning at the Hélitas stadium in Caen (FRA). The walkers took advantage of the still very present sun t...
27/06/2022 - Dublin (IRL): Perseus Karlstrom's victory in the 10,000m track walk with the 5th world performance "all times" (37:57.02)
The 150th edition of the Irish Life Health National Track and Field Championships closed a busy two day schedule in thrilling fashion with a host of breathtaking performances across the evening session in Morton Stadium (June 26...
27/06/2022 - Bursa (TUR): U23 Bursa (TUR): U23 Championships and TAF Cup
On Sunday 26 June in Bursa in Turkey, the Turkish U23 championships were held with the two walking races over the 10,000m distance on track. The first men's race started at 8:00 local time, while the one reserved for women s...
26/06/2022 - Leiria (POR): Ana Cabecinha and Joao Vieira still champions of Portugal
The city of Leiria, in its Municipal Stadium dedicated to Magalhães Pessoa, once again hosts for the fifth time one of the most important competitions on the national calendar, the Portuguese Championships. This competiti...
26/06/2022 - Manchester (GBR): Tom Bosworth e Bethan Davies campioni UK Athletics 2022
Weekend of National Championships also in Great Britain where those organized by UK Athletics in Manchester were held. The two running races took place yesterday 26 June 2022 and as per tradition for the UK champions on the dist...
25/06/2022 - Nerja (ESP): Manuel Bermudez wins the Spanish Championship with Spain's 10th all-time performance
The second day of the Spanish National Championship sees the marching athletes engaged in the men's 10,000m track walk. The parterre of the athletes at the start is orphaned by two important names: that of Alvaro Martin and ...
25/06/2022 - Budapest (HUN): Barbara Olah and Mate Helebrand are the new champions of Hungary 2022
On the first day of the 127th edition of the National Athletics Championships of Hungary, which are being held in Budapest, the two track running races that awarded the title of Champion of Hungary were held. The competitions took plac...
24/06/2022 - Nerja (ESP): Laura Garcia-Caro wins the Spanish Championship with the second world performance of the year
This weekend is a weekend of National Championships. Among the most important are those of Spain and those of Italy. While in Italy the two walking events will take place on the road in the late afternoon of today Friday ...
24/06/2022 - Rieti (ITA): Francesco Fortunato and Valentina Trapletti are the 2022 Italian Champions
Francesco Fortunato and Valentina Trapletti: here are the first Italian champions in Rieti on the opening day of the Absolutes. Opening dedicated to the 10km walk, on the city streets, in the fascinating scenery of the medieval ...
23/06/2022 - Rieti (ITA): Tomorrow the Italian Individual Championships with the 10km on the road
It was to be expected. Despite the change made this year with the double possibility of obtaining the opportunity to participate in the Italian Track Championship in the two walking races (11 athletes from the 2022 nation...
21/06/2022 - Volos (GRE): The U18 National Championships of Greece
Last weekend in the city of Volos, in the mountains of Epirus, the National U18 Championships of Greece were held in the Panthesaliko stadium. At the end of the first day of competitions (Saturday) the 5,000 track walk fo...
20/06/2022 - Székesfehérvar (HUN): the 38th edition of the Honved Cup in Athletics
The 38th edition of the Honved Cup in Athletics took place last Saturday 18 June in Székesfehérvar (HUN). As usual, two walking races were also proposed to the public over the 5,000m track walk distance. &nb...
18/06/2022 - Jerez de la Frontera (ESP): Sofia Santacreu Calatayud and Daniel Morilla Garcia win the U18 Championship of Spain
The LXXI edition of the Spanish U18 National Championships is underway in Jerez de la Frontera (ESP). The two walking events are scheduled for: - 5.000m walk on track for U18 girlds today at 9:55 - 10,000m track walk U18 boys to...
17/06/2022 - Milan (ITA): Giuseppe Disabato and Martina Sciannamea are the new Italian U18 Champions
On the first day of the Italian U18 Track Championships the last two events are those of race walking. The hope is that the temperature and humidity inside the beautiful Napoleonic Arena facility projected the Luigi Canonica will give ...
16/06/2022 - Espoo (FIN): excellent results at the Motonet Grand Prix
The Motonet Gran d Prix in athletics is an interesting series of meetings that takes place between the months of May and August in various cities in Finland. This year it started in Lahti on 25 May and then continued in Tampere,...
15/06/2022 - The Italian "All Time" lists in the different distances of race walking
We have been asked by many sides if we had the All Time Italian Lists on the different walking distances. In the Statistics section we have today published the rankings of the following distances: - 3,000 me...
13/06/2022 - St. Louis Pierre Mauritius (MRI): Samuel Gathimba (KEN) and Emily Ngii (KEN) are the 2022 African Champions
On the last day of the African Athletics Championships, which took place in St.Pierre, Mauritius, the 20 km walking races opened the morning program on Sunday with the great result of the Kenyan athletes who won three of ...
12/06/2022 - Florence (ITA): Davide Finocchietti and Simona Bertini win the U23 Italian Track Championships
Starting today at 8:30 am on Sunday 12 June, the two events of the 10,000m track walk valid for the Italian U23 Track Championships took place. To be fair, there was only one race, with the males competing in lane 1 while the females c...
12/06/2022 - La Nucia (ESP): Diego Garcia Carrera wins in the Division de Honor
The finals of the Division de Honor valid for the title of Club Champions in Spain took place on Sunday 12.6.2022 in La Nucia (ESP). Today's races were those reserved for men. 5.000m track walk men The r...
11/06/2022 - La Nucia (ESP): Victory of Maria Perez in the Division de Honor
The finals of the Division de Honor valid for the title of Club Champions in Spain took place on Saturday 11.6.2022 in La Nucia (ESP). The competitions were reserved to women. 5.000m track walk women Undispu...
10/06/2022 - Suwalki (POL): Artur Brzozowski and Katarzyna Zdzieblo win the Polish National Track Championships
The 98th edition of the National Championships of Poland is being held in Suwalki (POL). The two walking races took place today June 10, at the following times: - 9:00: 10,000m walk on the men's track - 10:00: 5.000m walk on women&...
09/06/2022 - Rome (ITA): Francesco Fortunato wins the 3.000m track walk at the Golden Gala in 10:57.77
The show was predictable and it was so for the walkers who ventured into a very interesting audience setting. The interest in the show was directed towards Massimo Stano and Diego Garcia. Of Jonathan Hilbert (GER) it was known t...
08/06/2022 - After 32 years race walking returns to the Golden Gala in Rome
It was since the first editions of the Golden Gala that this important international meeting did not host a walking race. The last time was in 1990 when the Golden Gala had emigrated to Bologna from its historic location in Rome...
05/06/2022 - Florence (ITA): Andrea Cosi and Lidia Barcella win the 2022 Challenge
The first edition of the Absolute Challenge took place at 9:00am outside the "Luigi Ridolfi" Marathon Stadium in Florence. As already mentioned in the news a few days ago, the Challenge's main objective is to assig...
03/06/2022 - Florence (ITA): Sunday the new Absolute Challenge
In Florence, on Saturday and Sunday, the first edition of the review will take place, giving away 5 places in each specialty for the Absolutes of Rieti at the end of June. In Italy the Absolute Challenge represents a nove...
02/06/2022 - Bursa (TUR): U18 and U20 Championships and Olympic Trial
The Turkish U18 Championship took place in Bursa, Turkey on 26 and 27 May. Subsequently on May 28th and 29th the Turkish U20 Championship took place on May 28th - 29th and the Olympic Trial Seniors competitions over the distance...
31/05/2022 - Gien (FRA): The 35km and 20km French Championships
The French National Walking Championships took place on Sunday 29 May in Gien (FRA). The scheduled races were: - 35km men and women starting at 8:00 - 20km men starting at 8:15 am - 20km women starting at 10:15 The compet...
29/05/2022 - Digressions in La Coruna
Strolling along Avenida de la Marina It is wonderful in the evening to stroll along Avenida de la Marina, where the races will take place tomorrow. Searching for a bar for an aperitiv is nearly impossible. All the people ...
28/05/2022 - La Coruna (ESP): 35th Cantones de la Coruna
(From World Athletics web-site by Emeterio Valiente) China's Qieyang Shenjie and Spain's Alvaro Martin captured respective 20km race walk victories at the 35th Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruñ...
26/05/2022 - Julia Takacs (ESP) says goodbye to competitions and hangs up her shoes
Today the news of another goodbye in the international world of walking is surprising. That of Julia Tackacs (ESP) who with her smile and her beauty was not only a great athlete but also a strong promoter of race walking in Spai...
23/05/2022 - La Coruna (ESP): a 35-year history
The 35th edition of the Gran Premio Internacional de Marcha will be held on the avenues of the "Cantones" in Coruna on Saturday 28 May, which this year obtained the Gold Level of the World Race Walking Tour from World ...
22/05/2022 - Cheboksary (RUS): The second day of the road walking championships of Russia
As usually happens, the second day of the Russian Summer Walking Championships is dedicated to track tests reserved for the U20 and U18 categories. 5.000m U18 girls Fifteen athletes at the start. ...
22/05/2022 - Bratislava (SVK): U20 National Championships and senior Meeting
The Slovak National Championships reserved for U20s were held yesterday in Bratislava in a beautiful park combined with a Marching Meeting also for seniors and youth categories. 10km men Victory Miroslav Ura...
21/05/2022 - La Nucia (ESP): Ibero-Americans to Alvaro Martin (ESP) and Laura Garcia-Caro (ESP)
The morning session of the second day of the 19th Ibero-American Championships had two walking events on the 10,000m track walk distance. The two tests took place on a beautiful sunny day in the stadium of La Nucia, a city north...
21/05/2022 - Cheboksary (RUS): The road walking championships of Russia
The Russian National Walking Championships are being held in Cheboksary (RUS). We recall that in Russia generally two rounds of national championships take place: the winter ones (usually in Sochi) and the summer ones (traditionally in...
20/05/2022 - Alytus (LTU): Marius Ziukas (LTU) and Olena Sobchuk (UKR) are the winners of 48th Race walking Festival “Alytus 2022”
The 48th “Alytus 2022” Marching Festival took place today in Alytus (LTU), together with the Lithuanian National Championship on the distance of 20km and for the U20s on the distance of 10km. 20km men N...
19/05/2022 - Hanoi (VIE): the 31st South East Asian (SEA) Games
The 31st South East Asian (SEA) Games are underway in Hanoi, Vietnam. In reality, this edition of the Games should have taken place last season, but the temporal shifts of the events due to the pandemic and the particular ones from Tok...
18/05/2022 - Alicante (ESP): Preview of the "Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo"
The two walking events of the 2022 edition of the Ibero-American Athletics Championship will take place on Saturday 21 May 2022 on the track of La Nucia, Alicante (ESP). The two races are scheduled at: - 9:40 am: start of the men's...
16/05/2022 - Madrid (ESP): victories of Perseus Karlstrom and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN).
A beautiful sunny day on the Gran Via in Madrid with a lot of public for the 1st edition of the Madrid Marcha valid for World Athletics Race Walking Tour - Golg Level. Before the two most important events the city o...
15/05/2022 - Melbourne (AUS): Quentin Crew to Oceania champions Kelly Ruddick in the 35km road walk valid for the World Athletics Race Walking Tour - Bronze Level
This morning on the traditional course of the Fawkner Park in Melbourne (AUS) the Australia and Oceania Championships of 35km of road walking took place. The competition was valid for the World Athletics Race Walking Tour - Bro...
15/05/2022 - Opole (POL): Katarzyna Zdziebło and Arthur Brzozowski win the 35km Poland Championship valid for the World Race Walking Tour - Bronze Level
Opole (POL), a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River, hosted the first edition of the National 35km Walking Championship of Poland. Opole, which has almost 130,000 inhabitants, is located at an altitude of 176m abov...
15/05/2022 - Kansai (JPN): The 66th edition of the Kansai Inter-corporate track & field Championships
The 66th edition of the Kansai Inter-corporate track & field Championships took place this morning in Kansai (JPN). The two walking events took place over the 5,000m track walk distance. 5.000m track walk men &...
14/05/2022 - Miskolc & Gyor: The preliminaries of the Club Championships in Hungary
The preliminaries of the annual Hungarian Club Championships was splitted into two parts: East side and West side. In each region the first 6 teams get into the final which will be held in September. The race walking secti...
13/05/2022 - San Jeronimo, Baja Verapaz (GUA): the international race walking festival
Organized by the National Athletics Federation of Guatemala, the International Walking Festival took place on Sunday 8 May 2022. The races took place on the San Geronimo track in Baja Verapaz (GUA) over the usual distances. &nbs...
11/05/2022 - Diego Garcia, a young man with many ideas
Diego Garcia Carrera, one of the great promises of race walking in the land of Spain, got busy. He had an idea that he wanted to transform into an initiative based on the sport - the most successful of Spanish athletics -, whose...
09/05/2022 - Patras (GRE) the 5th Patras Race Walking Festival
On Sunday 8 May 2022 the 5th Patras Race Walking Festival took place in Patras (GRE). The race took place over a 1km course for a total of 20 laps with a joint start for both men and women. ...
08/05/2022 - Murcia (ESP): University Championships of Spain
The 2022 National University Championships of Spain were held on the track of the Monte Romero Stadium in Murcia 5.000m track walk women With the women's 5,000 meters walk the championships open on Saturday mor...
07/05/2022 - Rio Maior (POR): Victories of Kimberly Garcia (PER) and Brian Pintado (ECU).
We finally return to compete after the pandemic also in Rio Maior. We left on 6 April 2019 with the victories of Eider Arevalo (COL) in 1:21:16 and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) in 1:29:01 which, however, had been heavy victories. Both...
07/05/2022 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): the 6th edition of the Marching Meeting of Banska Bystrica (SVK)
The traditional Race Walking Meeting of Banska Bystrica in Slovakia, now in its sixth edition, took place today in the morning. The participation was not very interesting at the senior level given the concomitance with the race ...
06/05/2022 - Rosario (ARG) - the third edition of the South American Youth Games
The third edition of the South American Youth Games is underway in Rosario (ARG), with a program of over thirty sports disciplines. The Games began on Tuesday 26 April and will end on Sunday 8 May. The athletics program started on Thur...
05/05/2022 - Frankfurt (GER): Christopher Linke wins the 35km in 2:29:58
On Saturday 30 April the national German championships were held in Frankfurt (GER) with a series of side competitions. 35km men Only seven men and women I know are present at the departure (5 men and women)...
04/05/2022 - Voronovo (RUS): Mizinov gets the best world seasonal performance on 10km (39:08)
The traditional edition of the 2022 Voronovo Cup marching took place on Monday 2 May 2022 in Voronovo, about seventy km from Moscow. Obviously participation was restricted to athletes from Russia. As usual, the Voronovo Cup takes place...
03/05/2022 - Alberobello (ITA): Massimo Stano and Valentina Trapletti Italian champions of the 20km 2022
On Sunday 1st May the Italian Championship of 20km of road walking took place in Alberobello (BA). The date reminds us of a historical moment of race walking in Italy, when May 1st was celebrated in Sesto San Giovanni near Milan with a...
29/04/2022 - Mersin (TUR): New U23 national record for Meryem Bekmez
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, on the track of the Olympic Stadium in Mersin (TUR), which hosted the Mediterranean Games in 2013, a selection competition was held for the most important athletes in Turkey in order to verify the sta...
27/04/2022 - Japan team to Eugene, Oregon
The national team of Japan has already been announced that will participate in the next World Championships in Eugene in Oregon which will be held from next July 15th to July 24th. 20km men &nb...
26/04/2022 - Sexual harassment in training in Rio Maior to Ines Henriques
The Olympic walker Inês Henriques yesterday denounced a situation of "sexual harassment during training" in Rio Maior, admitting that she was "apprehensive and afraid" for the situation that had arisen. ...
25/04/2022 - Kimberly Garcia Leon (PER), the athlete of the moment
Years ago some South American friends, tell us one of the most interesting athletes of their Continent, in addition to the already known Erica De Sena, Sandra Lorena Arenas and Glenda Morejon was Kimberly Garcia Leon. &nb...
24/04/2022 - Hauppauge, NY (USA) Nick Christie and Miranda Melville win the USA 20km championship
The US 20km Distance Walking Championships also took place on Sunday 24 April in Hauppauge, NY. As always happens, the Championships were "open" and also saw the participation of foreign athletes on a course of 10 laps...
24/04/2022 - Sulejówek (POL): Katarzyna Zdziebło and Dawid Tomala win the 20km National Championships of Poland
The National 20km Championships of Poland took place on the same date as Dudince 50 along Paderewskiego Street in Sulejówek (POL). 20km women For many kilometers, Katarzyna Zdzieb...
23/04/2022 - Dudince: the two 35km are won by Massimo Stano (ITA) in 2:29:09 and Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) in 2:43:06
Sweet memories The writer is linked to Dudince by a subtle thread: that of enthusiasm and the hope of continuing to be part of the group of international race walking judges. In fact, it was 1998, and in Dudince took pla...
23/04/2022 - Dudince: the two 20km are won by José Alejandro Barrondo Xuc (GUA) in 1:20:56 and Sofia Elizabeth Ramos Rodriguez (MEX) in 1:34:04
The events of the afternoon 20km men There are eleven athletes at the start. A group of five leading athletes forms immediately: two are from Mexico (Noel Ali Chama Almazan and Brandon Bernardo Segura Zepeda) and t...
21/04/2022 - Lima (PER): The 20.000m track walk national championships
Last week (from 8 to 10 April) the "Mayores" National Athletics Championships were held in Peru. The races took place on the track of the National Stadium, in Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA), on the unu...
20/04/2022 - Ranchi (IND): in the 35km two new national records of Juned Khan (men) and Ramandeep Kaur (women)
Juned Khan (Haryana) and Ramandeep Kaur (Punjab) respectively rewrote the men's and women's 35km national walking records that took place in Ranchi (IND) by winning the ninth Indian Walking Championship on Sunday ...
18/04/2022 - Mardin (TUR): First edition of the inter-league race waking concentration
An interesting day of march that of Saturday 16 April 2022 in Mardin (TUR). Mardin is a city known for its Arab architecture and its strategic location. Its altitude, in fact (1.083m above sea level), allows it to dominat...
17/04/2022 - Wajima (JPN): Masatora Kawano and Serena Sonoda win the 35km excellent performance by Koki Ikeda on 20km.
In the splendid setting of Wajima (JPN), the 106th edition of the National Walking Championships took place this morning with departure at 8:00 (Tokyo time zone) which this year for the first time will take place over a distance of 35k...
17/04/2022 - Hangzhou (CHN): Ma Zhenxia wins the 10km on Wu Quanming and Yang Jiayu
Today's competition in beautiful Hangzhou can be understood as the September Asian Games Trial Competition and is also part of this year's World Championships and Asian Games Trials. Due to China's strict epid...
16/04/2022 - In search of lost time
We received from a well-known coach in the race walking sector in Italy, who asked us to maintain anonymity, the following writing resulting in particular from what happened in a venue of the interregional phases of the Club Championsh...
15/04/2022 - Olomouc (CZE): Another Bronze Level stage of the World Athletics Race Walking Tour
Another test of the World Athletics Race Walking Tour yesterday on Good Friday. A once again, after two weeks, in the Czech Republic, this time in Olomouc for the traditional edition of the Olomoucka dvacitka organized as usual...
15/04/2022 - Eugene World Championships at risk for Antonella Palmisano
Alarm Antonella Palmisano: the season of the 20km walk is at risk. The 30-year-old Olympic champion suffers from inflammation in her left hip, between the head of the femur and the acetabulum, the lateral recess of the iliac bone: ente...
14/04/2022 - Registrations are open for the new important "Madrid Marcia", a 10km event along Gran Via in Madrid
"Madrid Marcha", is the new event of the world athletics calendar, which will be held on May 16 in the Spanish capital "World Sports Capital 2022" and is part of the elite Gold category of World Athletics, n...
14/04/2022 - Wajima (JPN): Sunday the 106th edition of the National Championships of Japan (50km) for the first time on 35km
Wajima, an enchanting seaside town in Japan, is a fundamental mark for race walking of the land of the rising sun. Here, as in Kobe and Takahata, the most beautiful pages in the history of the Japanese race walking have been written fo...
13/04/2022 - There are ten days to go to the 41st Dudinska Patdesiatka
Saturday 23 April could be a historic date for the new distance of 35km race walking. More than a month ago in Muscat in Oman there was the first time in the Team Race Walking World Championship, but...
12/04/2022 - The Italian club championships with the track test
(From Fidal Web-site) Second stage in three venues for the Italian Race walking Clubs Championship, with the 10,000m track test and several athletes competing. In the North group, in Alessandria, Nicole Colombi from Bergamo drop...
09/04/2022 - Dane Bird-Smith announces his retirement
Walking into retirement! It's weird actually looking back at what I have achieved in my career, I am so humbled and so proud of the highlights, olympic glory and medals are what history will remember but it's only...
07/04/2022 - On Sunday the Race Walking Club Track Championships
On Sunday 10 April, the territorial concentrations of the Race Walking Club Championships will take place in three locations with track events. The scheduled races are as follows: - U23 and senior men: 10,000m track walk ...
06/04/2022 - World Athletics world lists updated to after Podebrady
The results obtained in the traditional Podebrady Meeting valid for the Gold Label of the World Athletics Race walking Tour have upset the 2022 seasonal lists of race walking events. For the benefit of our readers we propose the...
03/04/2022 - Podebrady (CZE): Valeria Ortuno (MEX) and Caio Bonfim (BRA) win the Podebrady Gold Level.
Podebrady afternoon races 20km women - first 5km Departure at the pace of 4:34/km. A group of 6 athletes immediately took the lead: Valeria Ortuno (MEX), Alegna Aryday Gonzalez (MEX), Maria Perez (...
03/04/2022 - Glyfada (GRE): Balkan Race Walking Championships
In the afternoon of Sunday and April in the beautiful coastal town of Glyfada near Athens the traditional Balkan Walking Championships took place. The scheduled races were: - 35km senior men and women - 20km senior men and women...
02/04/2022 - Podebrady (CZE): Race Walking Tour Gold Level - morning events
The 90th anniversary day of Podebrady Walking begins on a cold and cloudy morning. The afternoon of the eve had also brought back memories with the fall of some snowflakes on the morning of April 20, 1997, in the World Cup, when...
01/04/2022 - Sydney (AUS): Jemima Montag and Kyle Swan win Australian Track Championships - Bronze Level
The Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Center is hosting the 99th Australian Athletics Championships from 26 March to 3 April. The two walking events took place on Wednesday 30 April on the 10,000m track walk distance and had...
31/03/2022 - Glyfada (GRE): Sunday 3 April the Balkan Team Race Walking Championships
Over the next weekend, in addition to the Gold Level meeting in Podebrady in the Czech Republic, the Balkan Race Walking Championships will take place in Glyfada (GRE) near Athens, in the area of the old airport. The following races ...
30/03/2022 - Podebrady (CZE): Saturday 2 April the first Gold Level of the Race Walking Tour
On April 2, 2022, the Podebrady International Race Walking Meeting will celebrate a significant milestone, that of the 90th anniversary. For the occasion, the organizers obtained from World Athletics the pride of being the first Gold ...
22/03/2022 - Qieyang Shenjie: her statements after the news of the disqualification of the results of Lashmanova
Qieyang Shenjie welcomed the news of the London 2012 Olympic gold medal while training with seven other walkers in Saluzzo in Italy, under the guidance of Sandro Damilano. She found out with a phone call and through a mes...
21/03/2022 - Nomi (JPN): Daisuke Matsunaga and Serena Sonoda win the 46th edition of the All Japan Race Walking
Nomi (JPN) hosted the 46th edition of the All Japan Race Walking. In past years the race took place in an international context and was valid as an Asian 20km Championship, but unfortunately the pandemic dictated its rules and the Japa...
21/03/2022 - Lashmanova banned for two years starting 9.3.2021 and has accepted the DQ of her results b/we 18 Feb 2012 & 3 Jan 2014.
In two tweets by Athletics Integrity Unity, the age-old problem that referred to the doping events that involved the Russian walker Yelena Lashmanova should be concluded. We propose them below. ...
20/03/2022 - Békéscsaba (HUN): Maté Helebrandt and Barbara Olah win the Hungarian 20km Championships
As every year, the Hungarian National Championships of the 20 km took place in Békéscsaba (218 km from the capital). This year the event was scheduled in March due to the international competition calendar. At the ...
14/03/2022 - Eskilstuda (SWE): Karlstrom wins the Swedish Indoor Championships
On Saturday 12 March the Swedish Indoor Walking Championships took place in Eskilstuna (SWE) at Munkterll Areanan. 5.000m indoor men Perseus Karlstrom just in time to return from Muscat in Oman where he bril...
06/03/2022 - After Jeff still Ecuador on the roof of the world and lives a dream
When in May 1997 Jefferson Perez emerged from the "namesti Tomas Garrigue Masaryka" in first position to go towards the second major victory of his career in the Poebrady World Cup (1:18:24), after the one the year bef...
05/03/2022 - Muscat (OMA): second day - morning session.
The second day starts on time at 7:00. Men and women leave together and it is really a good sight to see. The temperature is now around 24 degrees, with the sky more cloudy and humidity higher than yesterday. We believe i...
05/03/2022 - Muscat (OMA): Yamanishi and Ikeda gold and silver in 20km men
The last race of the World Athletics program relating to the World Team Walking Championships in Muscat, Oman is that of the men's 20km. As known, the restrictions imposed by World Athletics did not allow the participation of athle...
04/03/2022 - Muscat (OMA): first day - 20 km. Women in afternoon session
The women's 20km race is the one that suffers the most in terms of notoriety as athletes at the start. Of the top eight athletes classified in Tokyo 2020, only two are present here in Muscat. They are Alegna Gonzalez (MEX) a...
04/03/2022 - Muscat (OMA): first day - U20 events in morning session
With the 10km U20 women the World Team Walking Championships begin on a rather muscular 2km (1km round trip) course made up of ups and downs even if not steep. The young athletes show up at the start with a large flag of Ukraine...
03/03/2022 - Muscat 2022 - World Athletics previews
World Athletics has recently released all the "Preview" of the events of the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Muscat 22. For the benefit of our readers we summarize them in the following li...
02/03/2022 - European Athletics also imposes sanctions on Russia and Belarus
European Athletics has today confirmed a decision to impose sanctions against the Member Federations of Russia and Belarus. The unanimous decision was taken following deliberations of the European Athletics Council members late ...
01/03/2022 - World Athletics Council sanctions Russia and Belarus
(Excerpt from today's World Athletics website) The World Athletics Council has today agreed to impose sanctions against the Member Federations of Russia and Belarus as a consequence of the invasion of Ukraine. All athletes, ...
01/03/2022 - Miramas (FRA): Camille Moutard and Martin Madeline-Degy win in the French Indoor National Championships
The French National Indoor Championships took place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February in Miramas (FRA). The two walking races took place on Saturday 26th with the following timing. - 13:05: 3.000m indoor women - 13:30: 5.000m indoo...
28/02/2022 - Birmingham (GBR): Bethan Davies and Christopher Snook wins at the UK Athletics National Indoor Championships
The British Athletics Indoor National Championships took place today Sunday 27 February in the beautiful indoor venue of the Birmingham Arena. As usual in Great Britain, the two indoor events traditionally both take place on the...
28/02/2022 - Zagreb (CRO): 1st Croatian Race Walking Grand Prix
On Sunday 27 February, the first round of the newly established open Croatian GP took place on the indoor track of the Zagreb fairgrounds. The competitions were held on the distance of 3.000m indoor walking for the senior and U2...
27/02/2022 - Klaipeda (LTU): Brigita Virbalyte and Marius Ziukas win Lithuania's National Indoor Championships
The National Indoor Championships of Lithuania took place yesterday in Klaipeda (LTU). 3.000m indoor walk women Twelve athletes at the start and all completed the race. Victory, among other things qui...
27/02/2022 - Pombal (POR): Ana Cabecinha and Rui Coelho wins at the Portugal Indoor Championships
The National Indoor Championships of Portugal took place yesterday at the Expocentro in Pombal (POR). 3.000m indoor walk women Eleven athletes showed up at the start. It never ceases to amaze A...
27/02/2022 - Dublin (IRL): Wins of Kate Veale and David Kenny in the National Indoor Championships of Ireland
The last Saturday of February saw the holding of the National Indoor Championships also in Ireland. The competitions took place at the Irish Life Health Sport Ireland Campus in Abbotstown, Dublin. 3.000m indoor wal...
27/02/2022 - Nyiregyhaza (HUN): Victories of Barbara Olah and Maté Helebrandt at the Hungarian Indoor National Championships
The Hungarian Indoor National Championships was held this year in the new indoor stadium, in Nyíregyháza (250km from Budapest). This is the second indoor venue in the whole country (until now, only one existed...
26/02/2022 - Melbourne (AUS): excellent results by Jemima Montag and Declan Tingay
Today the Victoria Open Athletics Championships were held on the track in Lakeside suburb of Melbourne in Australia. We have seen two great results even though we are just starting the outdoor season, although we are in the southern he...
26/02/2022 - Ancona (ITA): Victories of Teodorico Caporaso and Simona Bertini at the Italian Indoor Championships
Once again the Palaindoor of Ancona hosts the annual edition of the Absolute Italian Indoor Championships. The usual program includes 3,000m indoor women at 4:50pm (10 athletes are entered) and 5,000m indoor men (with 8 entered ...
24/02/2022 - Giorgio Rubino hangs up his shoes
Last year, during the Italian Championships in Rovereto, we met Giorgio Rubino in the walking race who told us that this would probably be his last walking race as it was also time for him to hang up his shoes. We found it on January 1...
21/02/2022 - San Salvador (ESA) - II Central American Walking Championships
This Sunday, February 20, the Salvadoran Athletics Federation held the II Central American Walking Championships 2022 at the Ciclovía circuit, Constitution Boulevard in San Salvador. Thirtyfive athletes from 4 Central Ame...
20/02/2022 - Kobe (JPN): 105th Japan 20km Race Walking Championships. Sixth win for Eiki Takahashi.
This morning the 105th edition of the Japan 20km walk championship took place in Kobe. Beautiful sunny day and cool temperatures are in favor of the athletes who are likely to look for good performances in anticipation of the Wo...
19/02/2022 - ANCONA (ITA): Italian Indoor U18 Championships.
The Italian Indoor Championships for the U18 category opened today in Ancona. A month ago in Pescara in the 10km of the Club Championship for the same category, 46 athletes (23 boys and as many girls) showed up at the start and,...
18/02/2022 - Rzeszow (POL): Polish indoor Championships
The Polish Indoor Championships for the U18 and U20 categories took place last week (Friday 11 February 2022). The same championships were combined with those of the Senior category (for the two walking events) as they were orig...
14/02/2022 - Prague (CZE): The Czech Republic Indoor Walking Championships
The Czech Republic Indoor National Walking Championships took place on Sunday The event was hosted in the Stromovka sports center in the north of Prague in the Stromovka Park of the same name. 5.000m indoor walk me...
13/02/2022 - Adelaide (AUS): Declan Tingay and Jemima Montag win the Australia and Oceania 20km Championships
Today in the war Memorial park circuit in Adelaide (AUS), the 2022 Australian and Oceania Walking Championships took place. The competition had been included in the World Race Walking Tour calendar as a Bronze Label. &nb...
13/02/2022 - Pamplona (ESP): Alberto Amezcua and Maria Perez win the 20km walk Spanish Championships
The Spanish 20km Walking Championship took place in Spain today. The races took place on the Pamplona circuit in Navarre. 20km men Absent Miguel Angel Lopez and Alvaro Martin who in mid-Januar...
12/02/2022 - Rennes (FRA): Lena Auvray's new U18 girls national record at the French Indoor National Championships
Today, Saturday 12 February, the French Indoor Walking Championships reserved for the U23, U20 and U18 categories took place in France in Rennes at the Robert Poirier indoor facility in conjunction with the French Indoor Champio...
08/02/2022 - Olhao (POR): The national championships of Portugal of the 20km
National championships of 20km open road walk took place in Olhão (POR) on Sunday morning 20km men Twenty athletes at the start. From the very beginning, the group of leaders in which all the favorites were ...
07/02/2022 - El Cajon, CA (USA): 2022 USATF 20K Race Walk World Team Trials
The USA also had their selection in the 20km for the World Race Walking Team Championships which will take place next month in Muscat, Oman. Yesterday, Sunday 6 February in the Cuyamaca College district in El Cajon, Calif...
06/02/2022 - Miraflores (PER) - The 2022 South American Walking Championship
Miraflores hosted the South American Walking Championships today 35km men The long day in Miraflores opened as the 35km competition. Nine athletes at the start representing Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Brazil, and th...
05/02/2022 - Erfurt (GER): Linke wins 3,000m indoor at the 9th Erfurt Indoor Meeting
Tuesday 1 February 2022 Erfurt GER) hosted the 9th edition of the Erfurt Indoor Meeting The meeting took place in the indoor facility dedicated to the great German walker Hartwig Gauder who passed away in 2020 3.00...
05/02/2022 - Ancona (ITA): Italian Indoor Championships U20 e U23.
Italy's indoor season begins in Ancona with the U20 and U23 Italian Championships. Today, Saturday 5 February, the four walking races will start. 3.000m indoor walk U20 women There are six...
04/02/2022 - Miraflores (PER) - Tomorrow the 2022 South American Walking Championship
The Miraflores district will once again welcome the continent's athletes tomorrow Sunday, February 6, when the 2022 South American Walking Championships will be held in Lima, organized by the Peruvian Athletics Federation, i...
03/02/2022 - Muscat 2022 - Travel Guide
The Organizing Committee of the World Team Walking Championships Muscat 2022 to be held in Oman from Friday 5 March to Sunday 6 March has published a brochure containing the “Travel Guide”. Our readers will find in t...
02/02/2022 - Kobe (JPN): the entry list of the 105th Japan 20km Walking Championships
The 105th National 20km Jeep Walking Championship will be held, as usually happens, in Kobe on February 20, 2022. The organisers of the Hyogo Athletics Association have already closed registrations. In Japan, even more than in China, r...
01/02/2022 - Italy: The team for Muscat (Oman)
Italy's Technical director Antonio La Torre announced the team for the World Team Walking Championships scheduled in Muscat, Oman, on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th March. The team consists of 22 athletes (13 men and 9 women) &...
01/02/2022 - Adler, Sochi (RUS): All Russia U18 Race Walking Championship
On the second day there were two sports events in the frame of All Russia Team World Race walking Championship for young athletes: Interregional race walking competitions "Young race walker" reserved to U16 and All Russ...
31/01/2022 - Coatzalcoalcos (MEX): 5th edition of the Circuito Nacional de Caminata
The fifth stage of the World Race Walking Tour took place in Mexico between 29 and 30 January 2022 The 5th edition of the Circuito Nacional de Caminata Coatzalcoalcos took place on Saturday 29 January 2022 in Coatzalcoalcos (ME...
31/01/2022 - Adler, Sochi (RUS): Great mark of Vasily Mizinov in the 20km of the All Russian Winter Championships
Today and tomorrow race walking return to Russia in Sochi for the traditional winter edition of the Russian Championships, which many times have reserved very high level results. The races have been taking place for some years now on ...
30/01/2022 - Lepe (ESP): Fireworks in the two 35km of the Spanish Championship
The World Race Walking Tour program continues this time in Spain. The city of Lepe in the province of Huelva hosted the 35km Spanish Championship this morning. The race took place on the Isla Cristina avenue in the...
29/01/2022 - New York (USA) - 114th edition of Millrose Games
The 114th edition of the Millrose Games, one of the best known indoor competitions in the world, was held today in New York. Both races, as is customary in the USA, were held over the 3,000m indoor distance. 3.000m indoor...
27/01/2022 - Japan: The team for Muscat (Oman)
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations has announced the team that will participate in the 29th World Race Walking Team Championships which will be held in Muscat (Oman) from March 4 (Friday) to 5 (Sunday) this year. &nb...
26/01/2022 - San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz (GUA): The 35km and 20km national championship of Guatemala
The streets of San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz (GUA) were the scene of the 2022 National Walking Championship, which took place on the morning of Sunday 23, and which saw the participation of dozens of athletes from the countr...
25/01/2022 - Canberra (AUS) - Supernova 2022
The results of the 10,000 meters of walk held on the track of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra were excellent, with the victories of Declan Tingay and Jemima Montag in the second round (22/1) of the Supernova 2022, ...
23/01/2022 - Tunja, Boyaca (COL): The national championship of 20km and 35km
The Colombia National Walking Championships, which took place on Saturday, January 22, in Tunja, the capital of Boyacá located at 2,800 meters above sea level, saw the 20km victories of Eider Arévalo and Laura Chal...
23/01/2022 - Megara (GRE): Antigoni Drisbioti wins the 35km Championship of Greece with the new national record
The Panhellenic 35km Race Walk Championship took place today in Megara (GRE) in the Varea area. Very cold day, with a temperature of -2 ° Celsius and a sky that changed from an "almost snow" to a "pale sun". &nb...
22/01/2022 - Nanjing (CHN) - First selection to Muscat (Oman)
The indicative races for the selection for the World Team Championship scheduled in Muscat (Oman) took place this morning in Nanjing (CHN). As said, the competitions were indicative and not decisive, and a few high-calibre ath...
22/01/2022 - Antalya (TUR): The National Championships of Turkey
Antalya in the beautiful Konyaalti Boulevard hosted the National Championships of Turkey today with the following program: - 08:30: 35km (men and women) - 10:00: 20km (men and women) - 11:30: 10km U20 (men and women) - 12:00: 10km U18 (boys)...
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Statement to our readers Starting in January 2022, we have started offering our readers a new service. The Results section will be implemented not only with those of which Marcia dal Mondo also offers a news, but w...
20/01/2022 - Santee, CA (USA): 35km USATF Championships
Santee in California (USA) hosted the 2022 edition of the 35km USA Championships. 35km women The Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down” blared on loudspeakers as Ch...
18/01/2022 - Marcia dal Mondo suffered a hacker attack
Over the past weekend, our site suffered a hacker attack that involved in particular the Gallery section but also other sections. We cannot publish more news now until the company that manages the web-site gives us the green lig...
18/01/2022 - The events of the Club Championship in Pescara
The races of the Race Walking Clobs Championship held in conjunction with the Italian 35km Walking Championship in Pescara. 20km men Forty-four athletes at the start also as a consequence of the fact that the race ...
17/01/2022 - Italian 35km race walk championships
First titles of the year for athletics. In Pescara, in the Italian 35 km walk championships, Matteo Giupponi and Federica Curiazzi, both from Bergamo, win the victory 35km men Immediately in the lead ...
14/01/2022 - On February 20, the 105th edition of the 20km Japan Championships in Kobe: the effects of the pandemic
On Sunday 20 February the 105th edition of the Japan 20km Walk Championship will take place in Hyogo, a suburb of Kobe on Rokko Island. Over the last decade Kobe has always been a very fast race, both for the splendid quality of the co...
12/01/2022 - Pescara (ITA): Italian 35km Championships - preview
On Sunday, January 16, 2022, the Italian Championships of 35km road walk reserved to both men and women will take place in Pescara (ITA) organized by Passologico Pescara. The competition will be valid a...
11/01/2022 - Jumilla (ESP): Victory to Ivan Lopez Perez (ESP) in 39:53
The past weekend in Spain saw the holding of Regional Walking Championships in many locations. We have already entertained our readers with the good result at the beginning of the season (1:29:51) obtained by Maria Perez ...
10/01/2022 - Utrera (ESP): Crackling start of the outdoor season for Maria Perez Garcia
Crackling start of the outdoor season for Maria Perez Garcia who we remember fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the Sapporo 20km. On Saturday 8 January, the Andalusian Road Walking Championships took place in Utrera, near...
09/01/2022 - Sheffield (GBR): Tom Partington and Hannah Hopper win the 3.000m indoor
Sheffield (GBR) hosted the British Grand Prix of Indoor Walking on Sunday 9 January 2022. The two competitions were held over the 3,000m indoor distance for both men and women. 3.000m indoor walk men Only th...
09/01/2022 - Burjassot (ESP): Luis Manuel Corchete Martinez wins the 10th Gran Premio de marcha Ciudad de Burjassot
The "X Grand Premio de marcia Ciudad de Burjassot" valid as an Autonomous Championship of the Valencian Community took place in Burjassot (ESP). Participation is discreet not only in the most important competitions, bu...
09/01/2022 - Bragança Paulista (BRA): solo by Caio Bonfim in the 35km with the new record of Brazil in 2:33:57
Cloudy day in Bragança Paulista for the Copa Brasil sponsored by Loreria Caixa. Temperature 17° Celsius an high humidity 90% 35km women There are only six athletes at the start. - at 5km: Mayara ...
08/01/2022 - San Antonio de Machala (ECU): Brian Daniel Pintado Alvarez wins the Ecuadorian 35km Championship establishing the South American record of 2:32:40
On Saturday 8 January the Luis Chocho National Walking Championships took place in San Antonio de Machala, in the province of El Poro (ECU). Luis Chocho who passed away a little over a year ago was a great walking coach i...
07/01/2022 - Pescara (ITA): certified the course of the Italian 35km Championship
On Sunday, January 16, 2022, the Italian Championship of 35km of road walking reserved to both men and women will take place in Pescara (ITA). The competition will be valid as a selection for athletes participating to the...
01/01/2022 - Tokyo (JPN): Subaru Ishida and Nami Kumagai win the 70th New Year's Walking Tournament with new personal best
It was still night in Europe when the 70th New Year's Race Walking Tournament was held in Tokyo around the Jingu Gaien, Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, also valid as the 84th Race Walking Tournament of the Tokyo Region ...