Ivano-Frankivsk today hosted the 35km Ukrainian walking championship combined with the 20km Ukrainian team championship and the 25th International Cup "Evening Ivano-Frankivsk". The competition was attended by 175 athletes from 12 regions of Ukraine, as well as from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary.
Three international judges (Anna Veselova ISR, Gaye Gencoglu Bekle TUR, Jens Grunberg GER) were involved in the competition, so all results shown in the tournament are included in the official international statistics.
35km men
Nazar Kovalenko won the men's 35km race getting the standard for participation in the European Championship (2:33:17). For only 17 seconds he did not reach the standard for the World Championships.
For Kovalenko this result represents the third European performance of the 2021 season behind the two Russians Dementiy Cheparev (2:31:27) and Sergey Rakov (2:32:26) who did better in Sochi, (RUS) on 19.2.2021.
Behind him by just 23 seconds a few hours later in Grottammare (ITA), Michele Antonelli (ITA) gets the fourth performance of 2021 in 2:33:40.
After Kovalenko more than three minutes late, the second place was obtained by the Polish Yakub Yelonek (2:36:59).
Third place went to Dmytro Sobchuk (UKR) in 2:41:04, just 4 seconds ahead of Anton Radko (UKR).
Below the updated European seasonal list of the 35km (first 10 athletes)
35km women
Nadiya Borovska and Inna Kashina-Loseva made their debut on the distance of 35km and from the very first attempt they achieved the standards for participation in both the European Championships and the Eugene World Championships 2022.
The race, however, was won by Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) in 2:50:54 also her first experience on 35km
Second place to Nadiya Borovska in 2:51:49 which represents the new Ukrainian record.
Third place to Tamara Havrilyuk Stasyuk (UKR) inn 2:52:24 getting the standard for the world and European championships.
Inna Kashina-Loseva crossed the finish line in fourth place in 2:53:33.
Lyudmyla Olyanovska (UKR), Agniesszka Ellward (POL) and Antonina Loren (POL) did not complete the race
20km men
Victory to Serhiy Svitlychnyi (UKR) in 1:25:56
Second place to Raivo Saulgriezis (LAT) in 1:27:37
Third place to Dmytro Medvedyuk (UKR) in 1:32:30
20km women
Victory to Alina Belorus-Sokolovka (UKR) in 1:45:07
Second place to Iryna Koval (UKR) in 1:47:00
Third place to Iryna Vovk (UKR) in 1:47:26
10km U20 men
Victory to Mykola Rushchak (UKR) in 44:37
Second place to Oleksandr Mystyk (UKR) in 46:06
Third place to Staniskav Bohatyryov (UKR) in 46:53
10km U20 women
Victory to Valeriya Sholomitskaya (UKR) in 47:10
Second place to Yuliya Lutska (UKR) in 51:47
Third place to Sofiia Krylovetska (UKR) in 53:36
For the U18 results we refer our readers to the relative Results section.