- at 20km
Men:
The situation has changed. Karl Junghannss leads the race in 1:31:28.
You follow him in two (Seiler and Hlavan) in 1:32:11 in turn followed by Marc Tur and Jakub Jelonek (POL) in 1:32:20.
Behind them: Marco De Luca in 1:32:22 and Andrea Agrusti (ITA) in 1:32:35.
Women:
The situation has also changed in women.
Antigoni Drisbioti has reached Eleonora Anna Giorgi after 19km who continues to walk with the brake and with tears due to a possible nervous breakdown.
The passages: Drisbioti (1:37:22), Giorgi (1:37:33)
Followed by: Maria Juarez (1:37:50) and Nadzeya Darazhuk (1:38:09)
- at 25km
Men:
The situation has changed. Karl Junghannss leads the race in 1:54:02
Jakub Jelonek and Marc Tur follow him in 1:55:09
Behind them: Ihor Hlavan in 1:55:13 and Andrea Agrusti (ITA) and Ivan Banzeruk (UKR) in 1:55:17.
Women:
The situation has also changed in women.
Antigoni Drisbioti leads the race in 2:01:42
Followed by: Maria Juarez (2:02:06) and Nadzeya Darazhuk (2:02:41) and Eleonora Anna Giorgi (2:02:49) who thinks more about the technical situation, and does really well.
- at 30km
Men:
Karl Junghannss leads the race in 2:16:27
Ivan Banzeruk and Marc Tur follow him in 2:18:07
Behind them: Nathaniel Seiler and Ihor Hlavan in 2:18:08
Women:
Antigoni Drisbioti leads the race in 2:25:45
Eleonora Anna Giorgi is now second in 2:26:56
Third is Maria Juarez in 2:27:04
Fourth is Nadzeya Darazhuk in 2:27:48 pursued by Lidia Barcella (ITA) in 2:27:56
Last 5 km of the women's race
One more lap and Lidia Barcella joins Nadzeya Darazhuk.
Victory to Antigoni Drisbioti (GRE) in 2:49:55
Second place to Eleonora Anna Giorgi in 2:51:05 who arrives with a look between the tears for the race and the smile for what, with the third place of Lidia Barcella in (2:51:50, will be the gold at teams.
Frankly, while we still respect the jury's judgment, we find it difficult to understand such strictness.
Instead, Lidia Barcella is celebrating.
Fourth place to Maria Juarez (ESP) in 2:52:44
Fifth place to Nadzeya Darazhuk (BLR) in 2:52:59
- at 35km men
Karl Junghannss leads the race in 2:39:07
Second position for Marc Tur in 2:41:00
Third position for Ivan Banzeruk in 2:41:01 which precedes with the same time: Nathaniel Seiler, Alesi Ojala (FIN) and Andrea Agrusti (ITA)
- 40km men
Karl Junghannss leads the race in 3:01:46
Second position for Marc Tur in 3:03:11
Third position for Aleksi Ojala in 3:03:33 together with Nathaniel Seiler and Andrea Agrusti.
- 45km men
Marc Tur (3:25:17) catches up and passes Karl Junghannss (3:25:50)
Third position for Andrea Agrusti (3:26:09) together with Nathaniel Seiler (3:26:02)
Fifth Aleksi Ojala in 3:26:12
Last 5 km of the men's race
With two laps to go, Marc Tur leads in 3:38:45
Second is Aleksi Ojaka in 3:39:27
Third is Andrea Agrusti in 3:40:18 who has definitively detached Nathaniel Seiler (3:40:39)
The last lap is the one of dreams for the first three.
Marc Tur (ESP) wins in 3:47:40
Second place to Aleksi Ojaka (FIN) in 3:48:25
Third place went to Andrea Agrusti (ITA) in 3:49:51 who finds Tur and Ojala at the finish line waiting for him and applauding him. a really nice picture of running and fair play.
Fourth is Ruslan Smolonskis (LAT) in 3:50:31
Fifth is Marco de Luca (ITA) who makes a masterpierce of and of the race and finishes in 3:50:48
10km U20 men
A fairly fast race, with 4 athletes passing the 5 km together in 20:53.
They are Jose Luis Hidalgo (ESP), Paul McGrath (ESP), Dimitri Durand (FRA) and Serhat Gungor (TUR)
Gabriele Gamba (ITA) follows at 5 seconds (20:58).
The technical situation sees two athletes with 2 red cards (Leon Bank, HUN and Daniele Breda, ITA) and in the group of leaders, with a red card, Dimitri Durand (FRA) and Serhat Gungor (TUR).
In the second part of the race, Dimitri Durand and Jose Luis Hidalgo stretch towards 7km and at 9km lead the race in 37:29.
Dimitri Durand (FRA) crosses the finish line first in 41:26, but in the last lap he receives two red cards which, added to the first, assign him a penalty of 60 seconds. He will be fourth in 42:26.
Benefiting from this is José Luis Hidalgo (ESP) and Paul McGrath (ESP) who, immune from red cards, arrive first in 41:35 and second in 41:51 respectively.
Third place went to Serhat Gungor (TUR) who, burdened with two red cards, is satisfied with the bronze in 42:20.
In short, even in the presence of a fairly rigorous jury, we must say that good walking always pays off.
At the end of the race three athletes pay a penalty of one minute (Dimitri Durand, FRA, Yehor Shelest, UKR, Leon Bank, HUN) and one DQ (Daniele Breda, ITA)
Fifth place to Jaromir Moravek (CZE) in 42:27
Sixth place in Gamba Gabriele (ITA) in 42:30.