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 start as many as 14 walkers in the 20km and a dozen in the two side races that took place over the distances of 5000m for men and 3.000m for women.
We thanks Hans Van der Knaap, international race walking judge, for his collaboration with the news, the results and the photographs.
20.000m track walk men
Obviously, since walking is not a traditional specialty in Holland, the results are not very representative from the point of view of the world rankings.
Despite this we like to see how athletes over 40 have competed for the title of Dutch Champion.
Victory for Rick Liesting (NED) in 1:31:13.9
Liesting boasts a personal best on road 20km of 1:29:19 obtained in Lugano (SUI) on 11.3.2018
His split times every 5,000m were as follows:
- 5.000m: 22:21.9
- 10.000m: 44:44.0 (22:22.1)
- 15.000m: 1:07:42.9 (22:58.9)
- last 5.000m in 23:31.0
Second place to Paul Jansen (NED) in 1:36:36.6
Third place in Malte Strunk (GER) in 1:45:40.4
5.000m track walk mixed event
Men and women start together.
And it is a woman, Annelies Sarazzin (BEL) who wins in 27:16.7
Second place to Edwin van Wijingaarden (NED) in 27:28.6
Third place to Ad Martens (NED) in 32:37.2
3.000m track walk women
Victory for Loes van Bremen (NED) in 19:08.1
Second place to Sandra Maas (NED) in 19:16.7
Third place went to Jacqueline van Drongelen (NED) in 19:27.6