Domani con partenza alle ore 18:30 si svolgerà in Lituania ad Alytus la 42° edizione del tradizionale “International race walking Festival” organizzato dall’inossidabile Kastytis Pavilonis.
Interessante la presenza italiana alla gara sia a livello maschile (Andrea Agrusti, Lorenzo Dessì, Giovanni Renò, Massimo Stano e Federico Tontodonati) che a livello femminile nella cui gara oltre a Valentina Trapletti c’è da segnalare il rientro di Antonella Palmisano in una 20 km.
La gara delle donne si presenta per altro di notevole interesse con la presenza oltre delle due italiane anche delle due stelle locali, allenate appunto da Kastytis Pavilonis: Neringa Aidietyte e Brigita Virbalyte-Dimsiene, oltre a quella della Polacca Lucie Pelantova e della Greca Despina Zapounidou.
Ecco la lista degli iscritti.
| Men 20 km | | | | | |
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| | Name | Family Name | Country | Birth date | PB | SB |
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| 1 | Luke | Adams | AUS | 1976.10.22 | 1:19:15(2008) | - |
| 2 | Pavel | Yarokhou | BLR | 1992.07.21 | 1:27:16(2013) | - |
| 3 | Dzianis | Simanovich | BLR | 1987.04.20 | 1:20:42(2012) | 1:21:48 |
| 4 | Yang | Hu | CHN | 1996.09.10 | 1:27:51(2016) | 1:27:51 |
| 5 | Yu | Wei | CHN | 1987.09.11 | 1:19:07(2013) | - |
| 6 | Aurelien | Quinion | FRA | 1993.01.27 | 1:24:05(2016) | 1:24:05 |
| 7 | Zaharias | Tsamoudakis | GRE | 1996.01.14 | - | - |
| 8 | Jaime Daniel | Quiyuch | GUA | 1988.04.24 | 1:22:25(2013) | 1:27:14 |
| 9 | Jose Maria | Raymundo | GUA | 1993.09.01 | 1:22:49(2015) | 1:25:00 |
| 10 | Dávid | Tokodi | HUN | 1991.05.03 | 1:30:23(2016) | 1:30:23 |
| 11 | Andrea | Agrusti | ITA | 1995.08.30 | 1:24:33(2016) | 1:24:33 |
| 12 | Lorenzo | Dessi | ITA | 1989.05.04 | 1:26:17(2016) | 1:26:17 |
| 13 | Giovanni | Reno | ITA | 1991.04.30 | 1:28:32(2013) | 1:29:10 |
| 14 | Massimo | Stano | ITA | 1992.02.27 | 1:22:16(2015) | - |
| 15 | Federico | Tontodonati | ITA | 1989.10.30 | 1:21:56(2016) | 1:21:56 |
| 16 | Edgars | Gjačs | LAT | 1993.08.27 | 1:28:05(2012) | - |
| 17 | Aigars | Salenieks | LAT | 1974.06.28 | 1:25:46(1999) | - |
| 18 | Raivo | Saulgriezis | LAT | 1994.07.04 | 1:30:28(2016) | 1:30:28 |
| 19 | Ruslans | Smolonskis | LAT | 1996.12.15 | - | - |
| 20 | Darius | Jezepčikas | LTU | 1980.05.16 | - | - |
| 21 | Genadij | Kozlovskij | LTU | 1991.01.07 | 1:24:42(2015) | - |
| 22 | Marius | Šavelskis | LTU | 1994.07.30 | 1:23:14(2016) | 1:23:14 |
| 23 | Tadas | Šuškevičius | LTU | 1985.05.22 | 1:23:29(2008) | - |
| 24 | Marius | Žiūkas | LTU | 1985.06.29 | 1:22:09(2014) | 1:22:31 |
| 25 | Yassir | Cabrera | PAN | 1988.01.28 | 1:27:46(2016) | 1:27:46 |
| 26 | Artur | Brzozowski | POL | 1985.03.29 | 1:22:16(2013) | 1:22:42 |
| 27 | Łukasz | Nowak | POL | 1988.12.18 | 1:20:48(2013) | - |
| 28 | Dawid | Tomala | POL | 27/08/89 | 1:20:30(2013) | 1:22:28 |
| 29 | Hatem | Ghoula | TUN | 1973.06.07 | 1:19:02(1997) | 1:24:54 |
| 30 | Hassanine | Sbai | TUN | 1984.04.21 | 1:20:19(2011) | 1:20:49 |
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| Women 20 km | | | | | |
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| | Name | Family Name | Country | Birth date | PB | SB |
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| 1 | Claudia | Balderrama | BOL | 1983.11.13 | 1:33:28(2012) | - |
| 2 | Lucie | Pelantová | CZE | 1986.05.07 | 1:32:07(2013) | 1:35:06 |
| 3 | Antigoni | Drisbioti | GRE | 1984.03.21 | 1:33:42(2013) | 1:33:54 |
| 4 | Ekaterini | Theodoropoulou | GRE | 1993.12.01 | 1:36:52(2016) | 1:36:52 |
| 5 | Evangelia | Xynou | GRE | 1981.11.22 | 1:32:19(2008) | 1:40:03 |
| 6 | Despina | Zapounidou | GRE | 1985.10.05 | 1:29:35(2016) | 1:29:35 |
| 7 | Maritza | Poncio | GUA | 1994.12.03 | 1:32:45(2016) | 1:32:45 |
| 8 | Anett | Torma | HUN | 1984.04.02 | 1:37:57(2016) | 1:37:57 |
| 9 | Antonella | Palmisano | ITA | 1991.08.06 | 1:27:51(2014) | - |
| 10 | Valentina | Trapletti | ITA | 1985.07.12 | 1:31:44(2015) | 1:31:47 |
| 11 | Neringa | Aidietytė | LTU | 1983.06.05 | 1:29:01(2014) | 1:31:20 |
| 12 | Kristina | Saltanovič | LTU | 1975.02.20 | 1:30:44(2002) | 1:34:14 |
| 13 | Monika | Vaiciukevičiūtė | LTU | 1996.04.03 | 1:34:00(2016) | 1:34:00 |
| 14 | Brigita | Virbalytė-Dimšienė | LTU | 1985.02.01 | 1:30:20(2015) | 1:30:48 |
| 15 | Katarzyna | Golba | POL | 1989.12.21 | 1:32:32(2015) | 1:32:36 |
| 16 | Laura | Polli | SUI | 1983.09.07 | 1:33:22(2014) | 1:33:58 |