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30/12/2021 - Chelyabinsk (RUS): Great result on 5.000m indoor by Vasiliy Mizinov at Momorial Yelena Rodionova
We thought that the activity of the year 2021 had ended, but just this morning our great friend Sergey Nochevnyy (RUS), whom we thank, informed us of an indoor competition that took place on Tuesday 28 December in Chelyabinsk (R...
27/12/2021 - Updated the history of the best active foreign athletes and those in the Hall of Fame
As we promised, Sandro Damilano who for years has been working on updating the performances of Italian and international athletes, has completed updating the interactive reports relating to the history of the best international ...
26/12/2021 - Istanbul (TUR): Turkey's new U18 national record for 5.000m indoor walk
The indoor season in Turkey has started in Istanbul. Yesterday, Saturday 25 December, a 5,000m indoor walking competition (with timing also on 3.000m indoor) for U18 boys and on 3.000m indoor for U18 girls took place in the Salo...
22/12/2021 - Lorca (ESP) - Excellent result of Miguel Angel Lopes on the 5.000m track walk
The 2021 season is winding down, but the very interesting results do not stop. On Sunday 19 December 2021 in Lorca (ESP) in a track meeting two walking races over the 5.000m distance were also held. 5.000m track wa...
19/12/2021 - The 35km Irish Open Championships - Victory of Perseus Karlstrom
The 35km Irish Open Championships starts punctually at 11:00 local time on a fresh day in the park of Sant'Anna in Rhaeny (IRL). 35km men Immediately in the lead was a group of 5 athletes: Callum Wilkinson...
18/12/2021 - Tomorrow the Irish National 35km Race Walks Championships
St Anne's park in Rhaeny is set to host over 100 athletes from across 10 countries at 11am on Sunday 19th Decemeber 2021. The highlight of the day will be the Irish Debut of Perseus Karlstrom (SWE). Karlstrom is t...
13/12/2021 - Getafe (ESP) - XXIII edition of the Trophy "Cerro Buenavista"
On Sunday 12 December, the 23rd edition of the Marching Trophy organized by the Cerro Buenavista Sports Association took place in Getafe, a city of nearly 200,000 inhabitants located in the south of the metropolitan area of Ma...
11/12/2021 - Updated the history of the best active foreign female athletes and those of the Hall of Fame
Sandro Damilano, who for years has been working on updating the performances of Italian and international athletes, has completed updating the interactive reports relating to the history of the best international female athletes. ...
09/12/2021 - Muscat (Oman) - World Athletics Race Walking Team Championship will also have events reserved to Masters (WMA)
Although Marcia dal Mondo by editorial choice does not deal with the multiple Master activities in the context of race walking due to time problems, the news that was provided to us with the request for its advertising, is a jui...
03/12/2021 - Cali (COL): Glenda Morejon wins the 1st Pan-American Games Juniores (U23)
Friday 3 December at the Estadio Pascual Guerrero in Cali, it is the turn of the women's race in the U23 Pan American Games. There are 12 athletes at the start. For the statistics they are: two athletes from Peru, two...
02/12/2021 - Published by World Athletics the international calendar of the 2022 season of the World Athletics Race Walking Tour
The international race walking competitions calendar for the 2022 season was published yesterday on the World Athletics website. As our readers will remember the Race Walking Challenge has been canceled and replaced by a ...
01/12/2021 - Cali (COL): David Hurtado wins the 1st Pan-American Games Juniores (U23)
Cali, a beautiful but chaotic city in the Cauca valley is hosting the 2021 edition of the U23 Pan American Games from 23 November to 11 December. Today 1 December was the turn of the first walking event reserved to U20 men which took p...
26/11/2021 - El Prat de Llobregat (ESP) - Grand prix Moisès and Jordi Llopart
The 39th edition of the "Gran Premi de Marxa" Ciutat del Prat 2021 took place on Sunday 21 in the athletics track of the Sagnier Sports Complex, in El Prat de Llobregat. The organizers of the Club Pratenc Associaci&oac...
23/11/2021 - Updated the history of the best active Italian female athletes and those of the Hall of Fame
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are dwindling we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of Marcia dal Mondo website. This week&n...
19/11/2021 - Santee, CA (USA): 35km USATF Championships
On Sunday, November 14, the 2021 USATF 35km National Championships took place in Santee, California (USA). For a November day the weather was unusually very hot. Athletes competed with even 90° Fahrenheit which corres...
17/11/2021 - Average speed over 35km: the last decade and future outlook
The replacement of the 50km with the 35km in the "major events" also entailed the adaptation of many National Federations over the same distance for their national championships. It is true, however, that in past years...
16/11/2021 - Speed performances (50km) in men from 2002 to 2021
The last season of the historic 50km walk of the season is experienced on the few historic races of: - Dudince (SVK) on March 20 - Wajima (JPN) on 11 April joined by Sevilla (ESP) on February 14, Antalya (TUR) on March 6, Huangshan (CH...
15/11/2021 - Speed performances (20km) in men from 2002 to 2021
As every year in this period in the Statistics section the updated graphs of the speed trends in walking competitions have been published. As in previous years we have followed the model that limits the historical view of the pa...
14/11/2021 - Speed performances (20km and 35km) in women from 2002 to 2021
As every year in this period in the Statistics section the updated graphs of the speed trends in walking events have been published. As in previous years we have followed the model that limits the historical view of ...
13/11/2021 - Huangshan (Nov 6, 2021): the wedding of Lu Xiuzhi to Wang Rui
Italy has always been painted in Far-East and Oceanic collective imagination as the land (among others) of Christopher Columbus, Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti. But for two of the most important athletes of the China nation...
12/11/2021 - Now it's official: Khrystyna Yudkina (UKR) won bronze in the Berlin 50km 2018
Khrystyna Yudkina (UKR) officially became a bronze medalist of the 2018 Berlin European Walking Championships in the 50km 2018. The Athletics Federation of Ukraine has been officially notified by the European Athletics Fe...
11/11/2021 - Updated the history of the best active Italian athletes and those of the Hall of Fame
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are dwindling we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of Marcia dal Mondo website. This week S...
06/11/2021 - Toledo (ESP): Marc Tur and Raquel Gonzalez win the Espada Toledana 2021
After not being able to organize the competition in 2020 due to the pandemic, Unicaja Banco-Club de Atletismo Toledo has once again organized one of its two emblematic events; the road walk event of the “Espada Tole...
05/11/2021 - Trendmo (CHN): a charming Liu Hong
Through friends of Marcia dal Mondo in China we learned of a beautiful fashion shoot that Liu Hong did for a magazine in Mainland China: Trendmo. Trendmo is a magazine that is distributed only in China so there is no English version. T...
05/11/2021 - Long Island (USA) - Victories of Nick Christie and Maria Michta-Coffey in USATF 20km Championships
On Sunday, October 31, 2021, the US Federation Road Walking Championships (USATF) were held in Long Island. Two 20km were scheduled. The organization, headed by former international walking judge Gary Wesyterfiel, was exc...
31/10/2021 - Updated the history of the World U20 Championships in the History Section
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of Marcia dal Mondo website. ...
30/10/2021 - Reflections by Diego Garcia Carrera (ESP) after the Olympic Games
The odyssey of walkers and marathoners in Sapporo: "Cracks on the track, bad food ..." Diego García, sixth in 20 kilometers in Tokyo, explains in this interview with “La Razon” in Madrid the h...
26/10/2021 - Matej Toth: Marcia dal Mondo's career-ending interview
The season of athletes farewell after the Olympics continues. Today is the turn of a great athlete who at 38 has decided to quit: Matej Toth. Born on February 10, 1983, Toth participated in five editions of the Olympic Games fro...
25/10/2021 - Updated the history of the European U20 Championships in the History Section
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of the Marcia dal Mondo webs...
24/10/2021 - Grottammare (ITA): Michele Antonelli Italian champion of 35km with the fourth European seasonal performance
A beautiful sunny day was the corollary to the now classic end-of-season race walk in Italy. 35km men “Few, but good” are used to saying in Italy, and in fact there were few at the ...
24/10/2021 - Ivano Frankivsk (UKR): Victories of Nazar Kovalenko (UKR) and Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) in 35km
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 athl...
23/10/2021 - Leeds (GBR): Victories of Aleksi Ojala (FIN) and Bethan Davies (GBR) in 35km of British Grand Prix
The Grand Prix od Race Walking 2021 organized by Andi Drake took place today in Leeds, GBR. The most important race of the day was that of the 35km which, however, saw only four athletes (two men and two women) at the sta...
22/10/2021 - Updated the history of the European U23 Championships in the History Section
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of the Marcia dal Mondo website. Th...
21/10/2021 - Grottammare (ITA): on Sunday the Italian 35km championships
Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, will again host the last 2021 appointment of race walking. For the historic "Centro Marcia Solestà" by Vincenzo Ferretti, once again the stake is to be one of the s...
18/10/2021 - Laval (FRA): The national championships of France on 20km and 35km
On Sunday 17 October, France also hosted its walking championships on both 20km and 35km. The competitions were held in Laval (FRA) with a very interesting numerical participation. It was also an opportunity to see one of the la...
17/10/2021 - Banska Bystrica (SVK): 35km national championships
Banska Bistrica hosted the first national championship of Slovakia on the 35km distance on Sunday 17 October. Olympian Miroslav Úradník (SVK) won the title with a performance of 2:37:32 This result represents...
16/10/2021 - Stefano Chiesa together with Nicole Colombi win the "City of Biella Circuit"
A strange challenge today in the heart of the city of Biella where on the occasion of the "Circuito Città di Biella" an unusual relay race in mixed couples for men and women was held for the organization of the Amici C...
14/10/2021 - Vasylyna Vitovshchyk (UKR): banned for 4 years from 2.8.2018 until 1.8.2022
In its most recent update on doping cases (29 September 2021), the Athletics Integrity Unit of World Athletics reports the conclusion of the case launched against the walker Vasylyna Vitovshchyk (UKR) and which we had already re...
13/10/2021 - Updated the history of the European Race Walking Team Championships (formerly the European Race Walking Cup) in the History Section
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enrichment of the historical parts of the Marcia dal Mondo website. This week Sa...
11/10/2021 - Marco De Luca (ITA) hangs up his shoes
The withdrawal of athletes after the Olympic season have not ended. Today is the turn of an Italian athlete and, let us say it clearly, of a friend of Marcia dal Mondo and personal of the writer: Marco De Luca. Born on 12...
06/10/2021 - Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado ends his career
When on 6 August at 9:40:03 Jesús Ángel García-Bragado, 51, crossed the finish line of his eighth Olympics in Sapporo, we immediately thought that an era was also closing with the last 50km of the Olympic Ga...
04/10/2021 - Tilburg (NED): Dutch 50km Championships and 35km Mauritius Championships
In a Tilburg in the rain the Dutch Championships of the 50km walk took place on Sunday 3 October which, as usual, take place together with those of Belgium and, in any case, are also open to foreign athletes. This year the organ...
03/10/2021 - Budapest (HUN): National 35km Championships of Hungary
The Hungarian 35km Race Walking Championships was held in Budapest, around the renovated Puskás Ferenc Stadium. It was also an open event for foreign athletes with some other walking event (20km, 10km, 5km). Athletes joined from...
03/10/2021 - Obituaries: Gerhard Weidner passed away
A great friend of ours from Germany gave us the sad news that Gerhard Weidner passed away on September 25th. Gerhard Weidner was a three-time Olympian (1968-76) finishing 14th, 6th, and 18th. He participated in the 1976 Worlds, ...
02/10/2021 - Parma (ITA): The individual and for region U16 Italian championships
Parma hosts today the first day of the U16 Individual and Regional Teama Championships with the two walking events on the distance of 5,000m track walk for males and 3,000n track walk for females. 3.000m tra...
01/10/2021 - Chen Ding (CHN) also announces his retirement from competitions
Chen Ding, gold medalist at the London Olympics, also decided to retire after finishing fifth at the 14th National Games in Xi’An, China. "After today, I'll go backstage," said the 29-year-old after the Chine...
30/09/2021 - Can Zelin (CHN) hangs up his shoes
As is customary and tradition, many Chinese athletes after the National Games of China announce their retirement from the activity. After the news of September 28 on Lu Xiuzhi this time it is Cai Zelin, Olympic vice-champion in ...
29/09/2021 - Osaka (JPN): 69th edition of the “All Japan Business Group” Athletics Championships
The 69th edition of the “All Japan Business Group” Athletics Championships took place in Japan on the weekend between Friday 24 September and Sunday 26 September. The competitions took place in Osaka, at the N...
28/09/2021 - The history of men's Olympic Games
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enhancement of the historical parts of the Marcia dal Mondo web site...
28/09/2021 - Lu Xiuzhi (CHN) hangs up her shoes
The Chinese Games, the last important sporting stage in China, begins, as often happens after an Olympic season, the moment of farewells. Someone predictable dictated by the age of the athlete and someone a little less, perhaps ...
27/09/2021 - Budapest (HUN): Hungary U18 and U20 League final 2021
In the past weekend two more finals of the League of Hungary U18 and U20 (a club championship for young athletes). The two finals were held in Budapest with the walking races that both took place over the 5.000m track wal...
26/09/2021 - Monthey (SUI) - Mémorial Raymond Girod
Last weekend was busy in Switzerland's race walking calendar. The Swiss masters race walking championship was hold in the beautiful Monthy which was also an open race for foreign athletes. The head organiser was this t...
25/09/2021 - Concluded the National Games of China with the 50 km. First place for Biang Tongda (3:52:16)
The National Games of China in Xi'An with the 50 km race ended for the walk. On a rainy day the results obtained were not exciting, demonstrating that China has traditionally struggled in this specialty. If we exclude Si Tianfeng o...
24/09/2021 - Xi'An (CHN) - Chinese Games (20km women and 20km men teams)
This morning (24/9) in Xi'An the women's individual 20 km race took place as planned and the men's competition per team. 20km women individual The departure is given punctually at 8:00 Cool and rainy da...
20/09/2021 - Xi'An (CHN) - Chinese Games (20km men and 20km women teams)
The 14th Chinese Games are underway. They are disputing in Xi’an, a city of more than 10 million inhabitants in the Shaanxi province in Central China. Xi'an is famous for the archaeological sites that arise in the surr...
19/09/2021 - Kumagaya (JPN): the All Japan Inter University Track and Field Championships
The All Japan Inter University Track and Field Championships took place yesterday Saturday 18 September 2021 in Kumagaya. Kumagaya is a city in Japan (just under 200,000 inhabitants) located in the Prefecture of Saitama n...
19/09/2021 - Montreuil (FRA) - 62nd Challenge Facoetti-Dahm
This morning the 62nd edition of the Challenge Facoetti was held in Montreuil (FRA). The Challenge born in 1959 to honor the memory of Angelo Facoetti who had been the inspirer of the Challenge. In 1965 the Challenge Faco...
19/09/2021 - Trnava (SVK): The U23 and U16 national championships of Slovakia
The U23 and U16 National Championships took place on Saturday 18 September 2021 in Slovakia in Trnava. The track walking events were held over the distance of 10,000m for U23 (both men and women) and 3,000m for U16...
18/09/2021 - Caorle, Venice (ITA): The gold final of the Italian Club Championships
The most interesting event is that of the Gold Final which took place in Caorle in the province of Venice. 5.000m track walk women There was no history. Nicole Colombi snaps into the head after the starter f...
17/09/2021 - The history of the women's Olympic Games
As usual this part of the season in which the competitions are reducing we will try to continue to privilege the statistical surveys and the enhancement of the historical parts of the Marcia dal Mondo web site. This ...
16/09/2021 - Samorin (SVK): The final of the Athletic League of Slovakia
The finals of the “Athletic League” (Club Championship) in Samorin, Slovakia took place on Wednesday 15 September 2021. The track walking events were held on the distance of 5.000m for men and 3.000m for women...
15/09/2021 - Caorle, Venice (ITA): On Saturday the gold finals of the Italian Club Championships
Over the next weekend also in Italy it is time for the championship titles for the National Track Championships for Clubs to be held in Carole, in the province of Venice. The two walking events that will take place at the Giovan...
14/09/2021 - World Athletics: O'Callaghan appointed head of competition management by World Athletics as new tours launched
Pierce O’Callaghan has been appointed by World Athletics as head of competition management, it has been announced by the international governing body as they completed the restructuring of its calendar. The one-day ...
14/09/2021 - The World Athletics Race Walking Tour
A few days ago we published the changes to the “Competition and Technical Rules” which will come into force from 1.11.2021 for the next 2022 season. But in the Council of 29 July 2021 World Athletics was also ...
13/09/2021 - Székesfehérvár (HUN): The Hungarian Club Championships Final
The annual Hungarian Club Championships Final was held in Székesfehérvár, in the Bregyó Stadium (which was also the host stadium of the famous Gyulai Memorial, part of Diamond League series). Mo...
12/09/2021 - What will change in the rules of race walking in 2022
It is therefore time to start looking towards the new future (unfortunately without the 50km in the major events) for race walking. As everyone has known for some time in major events both men and women will compete in th...
11/09/2021 - Bergamo (ITA): the final of the U23 Italian track Championships for clubs
Over the weekend the National Final of the Italian U23 Club Championship was held on the track and facilities of the “Putti” sports complex in Bergamo. The two walking events took place on Saturday evening ove...
07/09/2021 - Budapest (HUN): 2021 Hungarian Super League Final
The annual Hungarian Super League Final was held in Budapest last weekend. The Hungarian Athletics Federation based the Super League racing program some years ago: they organize 3-5 competitions a year in each track and field ev...
06/09/2021 - Stockholm (SWE): Finnkampen 2021
On the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 4-5 September, Stockholm (SWE) hosted the 2021 edition of the classic Finnkampen athletics match between Sweden and Finland. Finnkampen debuted in 1925 and over the years has grown into a gr...
05/09/2021 - Padua (ITA): XXXIV Meeting of the City of Padua
Exactly one month has passed since that August 5, 2021 in which Massimo Stano became the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Champion in the 1km course of the Sapporo Odori Park in the men's 20km walk. And the next day, for gender equality, it was ...
02/09/2021 - Gaziantep (TUR): The U18, U20 and senior team race walking championships of Turkey
The last weekend of August also gave us an interesting competition in Turkey. The team race walking championships for U18, U20 and seniors were held in Gaziantep, a city in southern Turkey and the largest in the South Eas...
01/09/2021 - Sao Paolo (BRA): the Brazilian U18 Championships
The Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt) held the Brazilian U18 Athletics Championships in Sao Paulo last weekend, which saw an interesting numerical participation. 5.000m track walk U18 girls The...
28/08/2021 - The videos of the world record of the 20km women and 20km men of Huangshan 2021 in China
A dear friend of ours gave us the opportunity to track down the complete videos of the two 20km (men and women) that took place on March 20, 2021 and which were valid as the Winter Walking Championship in China and as a Chinese ...
23/08/2021 - World Athletics against Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX): decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal
Everyone will remember the case of Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez (MEX) found positive at an Out-of-Conmpetition Control on 17.10.2018 ( for the news click here ). The result of the control was adverse for her: positivity to...
22/08/2021 - Young athletes of Russia: evolution or involution compared to the past ?
During this month of August 2021, the U20 European Championships in Tallinn (EST), the Olympic Games in Tokyo (JPN), and finally the U20 World Championships in Nairobi (KEN) were held in order. All these important competitions included...
21/08/2021 - Nairobi (KEN): Victories of Heristone Wanyonyi (KEN) in men and Sofia Ramos Rodriguez (MEX) in women
The altitude of Nairobi makes the air very fresh this morning (18° Celsius), but the humidity is still very high (83%). Very punctual departure at 9:15 am 10,000m U20 men walk Quick start of Dimitri Durand (FRA) and D...
20/08/2021 - Nairobi (KEN): Tomorrow the U20 World Championships walking events
The morning session of tomorrow 21 August 2021 will award the medals of the U20 World Championships for race walking. At 9:15 local time the men will start and then at 12:20 it will be the women's event. ...
17/08/2021 - Welsh Championship Walks in Cardiff (GBR)
What is the best way to celebrate August 15th? That of Wales, which organized the Wales Walking Championships in Cardiff (GBR) on the distance of 10,000m track walk, but also open to other athletes from Great Britain. &nb...
16/08/2021 - Volodymir Stepanovyc Golubnycyi (UKR) died today
Volodymir Stepanovyc Golubnycyi died this afternoon. Born in Sumy (UKR) on 2 June 1936, he was one of the greatest marchers of the then Soviet Union. He was also one of the few athletes who participated in five or mo...
12/08/2021 - Venue, dates and times of the 2022 World Championships in Oregon (USA)
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the World Athletics Championships (WCH) Oregon 2022 has announced that the four race walking events of the championships will be held in Springfield, Oregon. These locations are within mi...
11/08/2021 - Other analyzes on the Olympic Games (women)
As already done for men, today we offer our readers the same analysis referring to the women's Olympic Games in which we have correlated the race walking technique expressed in terms of Country with the number of medals won,...
09/08/2021 - Other analyzes on the Olympic Games (men)
Today we want to offer our readers a slightly different analysis from the usual ones, but always referring to the Olympics. We wanted to correlate race walking technique expressed in terms of Country with the number of medals won, but above a...
08/08/2021 - The ball is round, but if we roll it ...
A few years ago a Chinese great friend told us about the deep love that the "gamblers" in his country had for the roulette ball. He said that by following his hopping on the wheel they tried to understand in advance whether t...
07/08/2021 - Antonella Palmisano (ITA) wins the 20km of the Olympic Games in Sapporo
It is not true that dreams do not come true, just as what Julio Velasco (ARG) said is not true, namely that in athletics "the ball is not round". Dreams sometimes come true, certainly. And they come true in Sapporo where Anto...
06/08/2021 - Dawid Tomala (POL) wins the 50km of the Olympic Games in Sapporo
A well-known sports commentator like Julio Velasco (ARG) is right when he says that in athletics "the ball is not round" and the results are unlikely to differ from what the clock (or the meter) has already told us during the...
05/08/2021 - Massimo Stano (ITA) wins the 20km of the Olympic Games in Sapporo
And finally there we are. After five years of waiting, the Olympic Games return with the 20km men relegated, along with the other walking races and the two marathons, to Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido with the hope that the t...
04/08/2021 - Friday in Sapporo the women's 20km of the Olympic Games
If we had to make a bet if in Tokyo 2020 the podium of the 20km women were to be totally the preserve of a single country, we would certainly play half of our hanging salary on China, remembering what happened in Doha 2019, wher...
03/08/2021 - Friday morning in Sapporo the 50km men of the Olympic Games
When it was announced last month that world champion Yusuke Suzuki stepped down from Japan’s Olympic team, it threw the men’s 50km race walk wide open. The 20km world record-holder stepped up in distance two years ag...
02/08/2021 - Thursday in Sapporo the men's 20km of the Olympic Games
Of all the athletics disciplines in the Olympic program, the men's 20km walk (to which we also add the 50km) presents the best chance of a gold medal for the host nation. In fact such is their strength and depth in this even...
30/07/2021 - Muscat (Oman) will host the World Race Walking Team Championship in 2022
The World Athletics Council, meeting today here in Tokyo, has also agreed on host cities the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 2022, which will be held in Muscat, Oman. Oman will host a World Athletics Series event...
26/07/2021 - Twenty-five years ago the victory in Atlanta of a myth of modern walking
Today was a special day. Twenty-five years ago the story of one of the greatest walkers of all time began, but for the writer it was the victory of the one who over the years with humility and my great joy gave me the honor of his frie...
25/07/2021 - Dane Bird-Smith quits the Olympic Games due to family problems
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has announced the withdrawal of race-walker Dane Bird-Smith from the Australian Olympic Team due to family medical reasons. The Rio bronze-medallist in the 20K Race Walk had joined teammate...
25/07/2021 - Huelva (ESP) - The 70th edition of the Spanish U18 track championships
Last weekend at the “Emilio Martin” stadium in Huelva (ESP) the LXX edition of the Spanish U18 Championship took place. 5.000m track walk U18 girls The competition of the U18 girls took place on ...
23/07/2021 - The CAS of Lausanne has been disqualified for 4 years from 4.11.2019 Lebogang Shange (RSA) who will not participate in the Olympic Games
Our readers will certainly remember that recently with our news of 26 June 2021 ( click here ) regarding the return to compete of Lebogang Shange (RSA) we had expressed some perplexities not knowing how the c...
22/07/2021 - The CAS of Lausanne increases the disqualification of Ihor Hlavan who will therefore not participate in the Olympic Games
The Federation of Athletics of Ukraine received the decision of the Sports Arbitration Tribunal of July 15, 2021 on the case of disqualification of Igor Glavan. After examining the case, the Sports Arbitration Tribunal decided t...
20/07/2021 - After being cleared, Anežka Drahotová gives up to the Olympic Games
It has only been a day since the Disciplinary Commission of the Athletics Association of the Czech Republic found not guilty of altering Anežka Drahotová's biological passport. Today, however, the athlete announced that she ...
19/07/2021 - Anežka Drahotová cleared of the Disciplinary Commission of the ČAS
The Disciplinary Commission of the Athletics Association of the Czech Republic examined the case of Anežka Drahotová. In April 2021, the athlete was notified of an irregularity in the biological passport. In sample...
19/07/2021 - Milovice (CZE): Victories of Dominik Černý and Hana Burzalova
Milovice, a charming town in central Bohemia (220m above sea level) and about 10.000 inhabitants, hosted an interesting Road Walking Meeting on Sunday 18 July. The program was centered on the two main events on 10km road ...
18/07/2021 - Watching the athletes from Spain walking is like hearing beautiful music
Until the notorious 2015 Russia had undoubtedly been the leading nation of the European race walking all along. Since 1996, the year in which the first edition of the European Cup (today the European Race Walking Team Championship) beg...
17/07/2021 - Tallin (EST) - U20 European Championships - Paul McGrath win (ESP)
The second final of the run of the U20 European Championships scheduled is that of the men's 10.000m track walk which starts at 10:05 (9:05 CET) on Saturday 17 July 2021. 10.000m track walk U20 men Let's st...
16/07/2021 - Isamu Fujisawa (JPN) announces his retirement from racing
Isamu Fujisawa (JPN), the 33-year-old representative of the men's 20km walk at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Rio de Janeiro 2016, announced today that his retirement from racing. Fujisawa, who had finished ...
15/07/2021 - Tallin (EST) - U20 European Championships - Victory of Yuliya Khalilova (ANA)
It is already time to return to the walking races at the stadium of Tallin (EST) which hosts the U20 European Championships from Thursday 15 July to Sunday 18 July. The first final scheduled is the women's 10.000m track walk...
13/07/2021 - Remembering Italian race walking maverick Frigerio on anniversary of third Olympic gold
We propose the beautiful article by Paul Warburton for World Athletics published today July 13, on the anniversary of the third Olympic gold medal by Ugo Frigerio (ITA) He was a friend of Mussolini and even ...
13/07/2021 - Lima (PER) -South-American U20 Championships
Lima, the capital of Peru, is one of the largest cities in South America. Although it retains a beautiful colonial historic center, Lima is a vibrant metropolis. And certainly the past weekend on Friday and Saturday will have be...
12/07/2021 - Volos (GRE): The National U18 Championships of Greece
Last weekend 10-11 July 2021, the Greek U18 national championship took place in Volos in the region of Thessaly. The championship took place in the “Panthessaliko Stadium”, built for the 2004 Athens Olympics, ...
11/07/2021 - A difficult time for the European men's U23 race walk
The U23 European Championships began their history in 1997 with the edition of Turku (FIN). This one in Tallin (EST) is the thirteenth edition and therefore 39 medals have been awarded in total. In the history of t...
10/07/2021 - Tallin (EST) - European U23 Championships - Victories of José Manuel Perez (ESP) and Meryem Bekmez (TUR)
Second day of the U23 European Championships in Tallin (EST) with the two walking races. 20km men Only 14 athletes at the start. The obligatory favorite is Lukas Niedzialek (POL) by virtue of his best accred...
09/07/2021 - Rieti (ITA): U18 national championships - Winners are Diego Giampaolo and Giada Traina
First day of competition in Rieti (ITA) for the Italian U18 Championships on a beautiful sunny day starting with the: 10,000m track walk U18 boys The favorite of the race is undoubtedly Diego Giampaolo (ITA)...
05/07/2021 - Thessaloniki (GRE): The National U20 Championships of Greece
Thessaloniki, the capital of northern Greece, has hosted the U20 Championship of Greece after 12 years The competitions took place in the recently renovated “Kaftatzoglio” stadium over the past weekend of 3-4 July. &...
04/07/2021 - Kütahya (TUR): The U18 National Championships of Turkey
The U18 Spor Toto Athletics Championship of Turkey ended in the Halil Akkaş athletics stadium in Kütahya (TUR). The two walking events took place on the following days: - the women's walk on the 5.000m track on F...
03/07/2021 - British 50km race walks record-holder has asked BOA to over-rule UKA decision
(from Athletics Weekly by Jason Henderson - GBR) Three months ago, when Dominic King achieved his life goal of breaking Chris Maddocks’ long-standing British record for 50km race walk, he told AW he hoped his perfor...
02/07/2021 - Eugene (USA): The National School Championships (U18) of the USA
The month of July began with the USA U18 National School Championships which took place at the Hayward Field of the University of Oregon (USA). The two walking events took place on 1.7.2021, both on the 3.000m track walk ...
02/07/2021 - Angers (FRA): Gabriel Bordier and Clémence Beretta win the French Championships ontrack
On the third and final day of the French Athletics Championships - Elite (from June 25 to 27) held on the track of the "Josette and Roger Mikulak" stadium, in Angers (Maine-et-Loire), the 10000m track walk was schedule...
01/07/2021 - Ekaterina Petrova (RUS) was eligible to compete as ANA in 2021
On June 26, 2021 the World Athletics Doping Review Board has agreed that the applications of 61 Russian athletes have met the exceptional eligibility criteria to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2021 under El...
30/06/2021 - The 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships will not be held in Minsk (BLR)
The World Athletics Council with a note dated June 29, has agreed to relocate the 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships, originally scheduled for Minsk in Belarus. World Athletics is currently negotiating with alternative h...
29/06/2021 - Minsk (BLR): Mikita Kolyada and Anna Terlyukevich win National Championships of Belarus
The National Championships of Belarus were also held last weekend at the Dinamo National Olympic Stadium in Minsk (BLR). The two walking events on the 10.000m track walk took place on Friday 25 June 2021, during the second day o...
28/06/2021 - Banska Bistrica (SVK): International Race Walking Meeting
A race walk meeting took place on Saturday 26 June in Banska Bistrica (SVK). 20km men Only four athletes at the start Victory to Jakub Jelonek (POL) in 1:28:35 Second place to Dominik Cerny (SVK) in 1...
27/06/2021 - Getafe (ESP): Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez win the National Championships of Spain
The third session of the 101st Spanish Championship took place on Saturday 26 June 2021 at the Juan de la Cierva Sports Center in Getafe. During this session the women's 10,000m track walk took place. 10...
27/06/2021 - Eugene (USA): Nick Christie and Robyn Stevens win the US Trials on 20km
The US Trials valid for the Olympic selection took place from Friday 18 June to Sunday 27 June in Eugene, Oregon, USA at Hayward Field. The two events of frace walk, both on the distance of 20km, took place on Saturday 26 June &...
26/06/2021 - Rovereto (ITA): Francesco Fortunato and Nicole Colombi win the Italian Championships
First day of the National Italian Championships on track with the two walking events, however, carried out on the road over the distance of 10km. 10km men On Corso Bettini, in the center of Rovereto, ...
24/06/2021 - Nairobi (KEN): Samuel Gathimba and Emily Ngii have won the selection of Kenya to Tokyo 2021
Samuel Gathimba and Emily Ngii won the 20km walk that took place in Nairobi (Moi International Sports Center - Kasarani) on the 18th of this month, on the occasion of the Kenyan days of selective athletics for the qualification ...
23/06/2021 - Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) forgoes the Olympic Games
A small bomb shakes the world of Japan's eace walk. Yusuke Suzuki, who had been included in the Japanese national team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Athletics in men's 50km walk, decided to give up the national team ...
22/06/2021 - Nerja (ESP): Antía Chamosa Dacasa and José Manuel Pérez Rubio win Spain U23 Track Championships
Last weekend, in Nerja, Malaga, the 36th Spanish Under 23 Championship took place with the organization of the Andalusian Athletics Federation, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Malaga and the support of the Nerja Athletics...
20/06/2021 - Kosice (SVK): Slovak U18 Championships
The U18 National Championships begin in the various countries of Europe in addition to those already underway for a few weeks of the U20s. The ambitious goal of some athletes in the U18 category is to obtain the standard ...
20/06/2021 - Pietermaritzburg (RSA): Lebogang Shange returns racing and wins
A meeting organized by the local athletics federation was held on Friday 18 June 2021 at the Msunduzi Athletics Stadium in Pietermaritzburg in the Kwa-Zulku Natal region about 80km north of Durban in South Africa. The goal was t...
19/06/2021 - Burnaby (CAN): Evan Dunfee still sets new Canada record, this time in 5.000m track walk (18:39.08)
The 10,000m running track race championships took place yesterday, Friday 18 June in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada as part of the Pacific Distance Carnival, an athletics event that also included two short-distance walk (5,00...
17/06/2021 - Alina Halchenko Tsviliy (UKR) is ineligible for doping for 2 years and 8 months
On 10 October 2018 we gave the news that the Athletics Integrity Unit of the World Athletics had previously (4.9.2018) opened a disciplinary process against the Ukrainian athlete Alina Tsviliy (nee Halchenko) and consequently he...
14/06/2021 - Burnaby (CAN): Evan Dunfee 38: 39.72 in 10,000m track walk - New Canada record
The Harry Jerome Classic in Burnaby, B.C. this Saturday saw a few exciting results, but it was race walker Evan Dunfee’s performance in the 10,000m race walk that eclipsed all others. The Olympian from Richmond, B.C., c...
13/06/2021 - Grosseto (ITA): Italian U20 and U23 Track Championships - Third day
The third day of the U20 and U23 individual Italian Championships starts at 9:00 with the 10.000m track walk U20 women. We tell you right away that, while the U23 race was so boring in the afternoon, the one reserved for the U20...
13/06/2021 - Queretaro (MEX): Andres Olivas and Alegna Gonzalez win the Mexico track Championships
This morning (7.00 local time, 13.00 in Europe) the last day of the National championships of Mexico took place in the new athletics facility of Santiago de Queretaro (commonly known as Queretaro) about 200km from Mexico City. T...
12/06/2021 - Grosseto (ITA): Italian U20 and U23 Track Championships - Second day
Second day of the Italian U20 and U23 championships on track in Grosseto (ITA). The two races of the 10,000m track walk of males and in the afternoon that of the U23 women are planned. The women's U20 test will take place to...
11/06/2021 - Alytus (LTU): Victories of Hagen Pohle (GER) e Elvira Khasanova (ANA)
On Friday 11 June the 47th edition of the International Race Walking Festival took place in Alytus (LTU), one of the last competions useful for obtaining the Olympic standard over the 20km distance. As usual, in addition to the ...
08/06/2021 - Hlohovec (SVK): the 24th race walk meeting
The 24th edition of the Hlohovec Marching Meeting was organized on the intense European Race Walk Saturday in Slovakia. As usual, the races were open to all categories, both men and women, including the masters. We will d...
07/06/2021 - Sumy (UKR): Lyudmyla Olyanovska and Nazar Kovalenko win the 20km Ukrainian Championships
On June 6, Sumy hosted one of the most dramatic championships in history in Ukraine - the Ukrainian 20km walk championship. 20km women Six women in Ukraine had achieved the Olympic standard and theref...
07/06/2021 - Siedlce (POL): Katarzyna Zdzieblo and Lukas Niedzialek win the 20km championships in Poland
They took place in Siedlce (POL) organized by the WLKS Nome Iganie the National Championships of Poland of 20km walk. The competitions took place on the course of Ul. Giovanni Paolo II. 20km women Eig...
06/06/2021 - Bursa (TUR) Turkish national track Championships
Also in Turkey on Sunday 6 June the track championships took place in Bursa. 10,000m track walk men The high number of athletes at the start (27) made it necessary to carry out two timed sessions, of ...
05/06/2021 - XXXIV Cantones de La Coruna Sergio Vazquez: Victories of Sandra Lorena Arenas and Diego Garcia
A beautiful edition that of 2021, after unfortunately a year of rest, of the Cantones de la Coruna now in its 34th edition on the most popular course for the athletes. Thanks to the health regulations of the pandemic that...
03/06/2021 - The eighth Olympiad by Jesús Ángel García Bragado
Jesús Ángel García Bragado, world champion 28 years ago, is already the male athlete with the most Olympic presences before Tokyo Jesús Ángel García Bragado will be able to partic...
02/06/2021 - Road to Olympic Games 2020: 50km race walk
On May 31, the valid period for obtaining the minimum participation in the 50km of the 2021 Olympic Games ended. We remind you that the period started on 1.1.2019 and the entry standard was 3:50:00 with a maximum of 3 ath...
02/06/2021 - The 85 years of Volodymir Golubnichiy
On June 2, 1936 (85 years ago) one of the monuments of the world march was born in Sumy (then USSR) today in Ukraine. Volodymir Stepanovic Holubnyciy (Golubnichiy) was one of the greatest walkers in the period between 1960 and 1...
31/05/2021 - Chula Vista (USA): Nick Christie and Robyn Stevens win the 10,000m track walk at the Chula Vista Field Festival
On Saturday 29 May 20121 in Chula Vista, California (USA), a mixed race walk on the 10,000m track distance took place at the Chula Vista Field Festival. Here are the results 10,000m track walk men Six...
31/05/2021 - Cheboksary (RUS): The Russian National Walking Championships
This weekend the most important race that took place was the Russian Walking Championship, in its summer version. As has been the case for some time, the races were held in Cheboksary, on the beautiful course of the Moscow Volga...
31/05/2021 - Russia: walkers authorized to compete in 2021 as ANA
The World Athletics Doping Review Board has agreed that the applications of 23 Russian athletes have met the exceptional eligibility criteria to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2021 under Eligibility ...
30/05/2021 - Guayaquil (ECU): Andres Chocho wins the South American Championship
The second day of the South American Championship, at the Alberto Spencer Stadium in Guayaquil (Ecuador) saw the performance of the men's 20,000m track walk. At the time of writing, the race has just ended. 20km men ...
30/05/2021 - Tatabanya (HUN): 1st Race Walking Memorial dedicated to Antal Kiss (HUN)
The first edition of the Antal Kiss March Memorial took place on Saturday 29 May in Tatabanya (HUN). Tatabanya (HUN) is a city of about 70,000 inhabitants in the valley between the Gerecse Mountains and the Vértes ...
29/05/2021 - Guayaquil (ECU): Birthday advance with a bang for Glenda Morejon (ECU) who wins the 52nd South American Championships
Guayaquil in Ecuador this weekend hosts the 52nd edition of the South American Championship in the Senior category. After more than half a century - the previous time was in Quito 1969 - Ecuador receives the highest athle...
28/05/2021 - Gulf Shores (USA): National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Championships 2021
The NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Championships took place between 26 and 28 May 2021 at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores in Alabama (USA) The walking events took place on the seco...
25/05/2021 - Rome 1987: the 10km women of memories of Kerry Saxby (AUS) and Marianne Torrelas (USA)
Rome 1987 was the second edition of the World Athletics Championships, but it was the first experience for women who competed up to the 1999 edition of Sevilla over the 10km distance. The Rome edition was a very special edition, with e...
23/05/2021 - Borsky Mikulas (SVK): 52nd edition of Zahoracka Dwadka
The 52nd edition of Zahoracka Dwadka took place today in Borsky Mikulas, the oldest walking competition in the Slovak Republic now in its 52nd edition. And just today Slovakia is crying, as we have already indicate...
22/05/2021 - A look into the future - part three: 50km men
This year, although the pandemic problem has continued, some very important races have been held that can make us make an in-depth examination of the future prospects in view of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Olympic competition will tak...
22/05/2021 - Pavol Szikora (SVK) passed away
Sad news reaches us. At the age of 69, former Czechoslovakian and Slovakian walker, twice Olympic and historically first winner of the Dudince 50km in 1982, Pavol Szikora died after a long and serious illness. Born in Lučenca (2...
21/05/2021 - A look into the future - part two: 20km women
This year, although the pandemic problem has continued, some very important races have been held that can make us make an in-depth examination of the future prospects in view of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Olympic competition w...
20/05/2021 - A look into the future - part one: 20km men
This year, although the pandemic problem has continued, some very important races have been held that can make us make an in-depth examination of the future prospects in view of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Olympic competition w...
18/05/2021 - A look into the past: the struggle for leadership of race walking in Europe
Historical cycles always repeat themselves. Race walking is no exception, not even in the European Team Championship, the old European Cup. Podebrady 2021 was the third championship in which the battleship of Russia was a...
17/05/2021 - Podebrady (CZE): The fair play of Tur and Ojala towards Agrusti
Rivers of stories have been written about fair play in sport, many in which even in the “little ancient world” of walking. Those who, like us, are a little ahead in the years will remember what made an era in cycling...
16/05/2021 - Podebrady (CZE): European Race Waling Team Championships - Morning events
Very humid and cool day. 50km men and 35km women Very punctual departure. The first lap is completed in 4:34 with Karl Junghannss (GER) in the lead, followed at a short distance by the couple M...
16/05/2021 - Podebrady (CZE): European Race Waling Team Championships - Afternoon events
Afternoon events 20km women Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) immediately starts in the lead, gaining about twenty meters. The whole group follows her led by Antonella Palmisano (ITA), Meryem Bekmez (TU...
15/05/2021 - Podebrady (CZE): Test Event
The classic “test event” to check the functioning of all the activities related to the Championship took place this afternoon on the course of the European Team Championship in Podebrady. A mixed 5km te...
13/05/2021 - Podebrady (CZE): the European Race Walking Team Championships
(From European Athletics web-site) The final entries for the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady, Czech Republic on 16 May have been published and can be found clickinn on ther bottom link According to t...
12/05/2021 - Bejaia (ALG): 1e Soirée Ramadanesque
Last April we offered our readers the results of two important walking races in Algeria. The races were held in Bejaia (ALG) on 10.4.2021 with the Algerian Road Race Walk Cup named "Mohammed Elhadj Mechel" and p...
11/05/2021 - Cuprija (SRB): Serbian national track walk championships
The National Walking Championships were also held in Serbia on Sunday 9 May. The races were as follows: - senior men: 10.000m track walk - senior women: 5.000m track walk - U20 women: 5.000m track walk - U18 women: 5.000m...
10/05/2021 - Budapest (HUN): the Semifinal of the Hungarian Track Walking Team Championship
The Semifinal of the Hungarian Track Marching Team Championship was held in Hungary on Sunday 9 May 2021 at the icarus BSE Sporttelep in Budapest. 5.000m track walk men Fourteen athletes at the start....
09/05/2021 - Taicang (CHN): "Ironman Cup" - Second day
The races of the second day of the "Ironman Cup" took place this Sunday morning in Taicang (Jiangsu province, population of 500,000 inhabitants), a new idea of China not to miss the races that were initially part of the World Chal...
08/05/2021 - Taicang (CHN): "Ironman Cup" - First day
This morning in Taicang were held the races of the first day of the "Ironman Cup" selection competition also for the next Chinese Games. 20km men Departure at 8:00 with a temperature of 20&d...
08/05/2021 - Guayaquil (ECU): Panamerican Walking Cup
On Friday 7 May 2021 Guayaquil (ECU) honored, with the Pan-American Cup, the memory of "Luis Chocho", one of the most successful coaches in this discipline who died in February due to Covid-19. Chocho prom...
06/05/2021 - Taicang (CHN): "Ironman Cup" 2021 National Race Walking Championship e National Games Qualifying
Saturday and Sunday morning in Taicang (Jiangsu province, population of 500,000 inhabitants) the races that were initially part of the World Walking Challenge but which following the pandemic problems and the impossibility for foreign ...
05/05/2021 - Don Dunfee (CAN): I think that the most important factor in my son’s development was that our local judges were very strict.
Scrolling through the comments in the groups dedicated to race walking on Facebook in search of any news for our site Marcia dal Mondo, we came across this sentence from Don Dunfee (CAN) the father of Evan Dunfee that everyone knows not only ...
04/05/2021 - Voronovo (RUS): Victories of Nadejda Sergeeva (RUS) and Vasily Mizinov (RUS)
On Monday, May 3, on a cool and cloudy spring day, the traditional “Voronovo Cup” of march took place in Voronovo, about 70km from Moscow (RUS). The current situation of Russia which cannot participate ...
03/05/2021 - The goodbye of Agnieska Dygacz
Today it has been exactly seven years since Agnieska Dygacz (POL) improved her Polish record with a time of 1:28:58 in Taicang, China during the Team World Championships. And it's been a few years since the official r...
02/05/2021 - Melbourne (AUS): Rydian Cowley and Jemima Montag wins at the Australian National Championships
Fawkner Park in Melbourne was the venue for our VRWC races on Sunday morning, with the meet also hosting the Victorian 20km and Victorian Masters 20km Championships, along with an Athletics Australia Invitational 20km walk. Conditions ...
01/05/2021 - Our thoughts on the "so-called rule B"
In these days a debate is opening up on a social network about whether in Great Britain they are trying to legitimise races where bent knees are not judged by having it added to the UKA rule book. Who, like us, knows the interna...
30/04/2021 - Robert "Bob" Bowman passed away
It is with a deep sadness that we came to know and we had the confirmation that a friend is no longer there. Bob Bowman, Chariman of the IAAF Race Walking Committee in the period between Palle Lassen and Maurizio Damilano passed...
28/04/2021 - Thanks to "Rachel the Racewalker"
The beautiful words of Rachel Seaman (CAN) announcing her retirement from competitions. An impossible task, summing up the last 20 years of my life! I surpassed what I ever thought possible and I’ve b...
27/04/2021 - Lousada, Oporto (POR): “Torneio de Marcia em Pista”
In the past weekend in Portugal, not only the Portuguese Cup took place, albeit with a smaller participation. On Sunday 25 April in the Sports Field of Lousada, about fifty km from Porto, the "Torneio de Marcia em Pi...
27/04/2021 - Albufeira, Algarve (POR): The Portuguese Race Walking Cup
The Portuguese Race walking Cup, a team championship, took place on Saturday 24 April on the Albufeira track, in Algarve in Portugal. The competition, again due to the pandemic, took place in a reduced form with the absen...
27/04/2021 - Braganca Paulista (BRA): Caio Bonfim's South American record in the 20,000m track walk
This day of April 25 in Braganca Paulista will long be remembered as a milestone in the history of the Brazilian race walk. 20.000m track walk men Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim obtained the new South A...
26/04/2021 - Leeds (GBR): Victories of Tom Bosworth (GBR) and Agata Kowalska (POL)
The British Tom Bosworth, representative of the Tonbridge Athletics Club, was the winner of the 10 km race of the Road Walking Meeting held yesterday in Leeds, England, on the initiative of the «National Center for ...
25/04/2021 - Guayaquil (ECU): Next May 5th will host the Pan-American Walking Championship
Eleven federations have confirmed their participation in the Pan-American Walking Championship, which will take place on May 7 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico...
24/04/2021 - Eaton, Ohio USA: Rivers State Conference Championships
Rivers State Conference Champoionships also took place this week in Eaton, Ohio, USA. Tthe Team Championships saw Rio Grande (Ohio) team triumph. The walking events took place on Friday 23 April on the 5.000m track walk distance...
24/04/2021 - Columbia, SC (USA): The Appalachian Athletics Conference Outdoor Athletics Championships
On Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd April 2021, the Appalachian Athletics Conference Outdoor Athletics Championships were held in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, originally scheduled for the previous weekend but postponed to the for...
24/04/2021 - Milan (ITA): Eleonora Giorgi and Federico Tontodonati win the Walk and Middle Distance Night by ESET
Anyone who have a smattering of athletics in Italy knows that one of the "musts" is the opportunity to participate in a competition at the Arena Civica in Milan. For the building, commissioned by Napoleon Bonapa...
23/04/2021 - Banska Bystrica (SVK); the traditional race walking meeting
Today the traditional Walking Meeting organized by the Banka Bystrica Club (SVK) took place at the VSC Dukla stadium. 20.000m track walk men At the walking races on the new training oval of the Dukla of Bans...
22/04/2021 - Brest (BLR): Belarus race walking cup
On a rainy Saturday (april 17), the city of Brest, Belarus hosted the traditional Belarusian Walking Cup, with events for all ages. The main tests on the distances of 20km and 35km for men and women were an opportunity to evaluate the ...
21/04/2021 - "Chuso" García Bragado completes Spain's preselection for the European Team Walking Championship
(from the RFEA - ESP website) The head coach of the RFEA national team, Pepe Peiró, has announced the name of the fourth member who will complete the Spanish 50km walking team for the European Team Wa...
20/04/2021 - An irregularity in the biological passport was notified to Anežka Drahotová
The Czech Republic press announced this morning that walker Anežka Drahotová (CZE) was informed by the Czech Republic Anti-Doping Committee of a positive anti-doping violation. The information notes that the sample...
20/04/2021 - Pamplona (ESP): 2nd Grand Prix "Ciudadela de Pamplona"
At 10:30 on Sunday morning, with the 20km road walk, the 2nd edition of the Grand Prix of the National Athletic Walk Ciudadela de Pamplona began. Under the supervision of Rodrigo Dominguez, and the full organization of the event...
19/04/2021 - Zagreb (CRO): Bruno Erent and Ivana Renic win the Croatian Track Championships
A weekend that just passed with a Sunday with no competitions all over the world. Yesterday we reported the most important ones. Today we proceed with those of a minor tone. First of all the National Track Championships i...
19/04/2021 - Sentjur (SLO): The Slovenian track walking championships with a good result by Jaka Grabner
The Slovenian National Track Championships took place in Sentiur, a small town between Ljubliana and Maribor. 10.000m track walk men Victory to Anze Tesovnik (SLO) in 54: 19.24 Second place in Primosz...
19/04/2021 - Bekescsaba (HUN): Victories of Lukasz Niedzialek (POL) and Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) - Helebrandt and Kovacs Huangarian champions
Bekescsaba (HUN) yesterday hosted the 20km road walk valid for the title of Champion of Hungary. The 20km event valid for men and women included some intermediate marks over some distances valid for the lower categories. ...
19/04/2021 - Eltham (GBR): George Wilkinson (GBR) and Abigail Jenninngs (GBR) have won the 2021 edition of the Graded 3000m Track Race Walks
Cambridge Harriers race walking section is a friendly group that has individuals and teams achieving success at every level. Training and competition is available for beginners, juniors, seniors and masters. Coach Noel Carm...
19/04/2021 - Espoo (FIN): Finland National Championships
The National Walking Championships were also held in Finland. The competitions took place at the Tapiola Sports Center in Espoo. 20km men Only two athletes at the start, with favorite Aleksi Ojala (FIN) domi...
18/04/2021 - Megara (GRE): Kiriaki Filtisikou and Zacharias Tsamoudakis win the Panhellenic 20km Championship
For the second time in two months Megara in the "Varea" area hosts the Panhellenic Walking Championship and this time it is the 20km (reserved for senior and U23 athletes) and two 10km (5km for U19 girks) on the road, ...
18/04/2021 - Various venues: the track phases of the Club Championship in Italy
The third day of the Road Company Championships took place in three groups in which the track events took place. The distances: - Senior (men and women): 10.000m track walk - U20 (men and women): 10.000m track walk - U18 (boy...
18/04/2021 - Guayaquil (ECU): Richard Boroto National Grand Prix
The most important walkers of Ecuador gathered for an extraordinary 10,000m track walk, as part of the Richard Boroto National Championship / Grand Prix, which took place between Saturday 15 and Sunday 18 April in Guayaquil (ECU...
14/04/2021 - Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA): the Warriors Opener Indiana Techn
Forth Waine, Indiana (USA) between Chicago, Indianapolis and Detroit is the home of an important university with connected colleges and Campus: the Indiana Institute of Technologies. It is a non-profit private university ...
14/04/2021 - Algiers (ALG): Track Winter Championships
Also in Africa, this time again in Algeria, the Winter Track Championships were held at the Bateau Cassé Stadium in Bordj El Kiffen in Algiers on the weekend of 26-27 March 2021. The event was dedicated to Abdelkad...
13/04/2021 - Rabat (MAR): 9th edition of a Meeting of the Federation of Morocco
Our journey into the world of the African race walk continues. The contacts established, which we sincerely thank, have allowed us to highlight what has long been our main goal: to introduce our readers to that part of the World that i...
12/04/2021 - Philadelphia (USA): Dalia Oliveras (PUR) and Daniel Nehnevaj win the USA Trials for the Pan American Race Walking Cup
Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA hosted the US Trials for the Pan American Race Walking Cup on Sunday 11 April 2021. The two main races took place on the distance of 20km (men and women), while in those reserved...
12/04/2021 - Almeirim (POR): Joao Vieira and Ana Cabecinha win the 20km Portugal Championships
The national road racing championships of the 20km of Portugal took place on Saturday 10 April. The races took place in a 1 km circuit located in the Almeirim Urban Circular on a rainy day that greatly disturbed the athletes. &n...
12/04/2021 - Bejaia (ALG): Algerian Race Walking Cup “Mohammed Elhadj Mechel”
It is with great pleasure that we offer our regular readers the results of the Algerian Road Walking Cup named "Mohammed Elhadj Mechel", which took place on Saturday 10 April in Bejaia (ALG). It is not often that we ar...
11/04/2021 - Wajima (JPN): Satoshi Mauro wins 50km in 3:38:32
A beautiful sunny day was the setting for the 105th edition of the 50km Japan Championships which, punctual as always on the second Sunday of April, took place in the beautiful town of Wajima, on the west coast of Japan facing t...
11/04/2021 - Batman (TUR): Turkish Walking Championships for Clubs of the First League
The Walking Championships for Clubs of the First League of Turkey took place on Saturday 10 April 2021 in Batman (TUR). Batman is a city of nearly 300,000 inhabitants, the provincial capital, located in South Eastern Anat...
10/04/2021 - Frankfurt (GER): Great time of Jonathan Hilbert on 50km at the German Championships (3:43:44)
The German Road Race National Championships took place today in Frankfurt. 50km men Three Olympic standards, crowned by an exceptional performance by Jonathan Hilbert (GER): this was the result. Hilbert had ...
10/04/2021 - Olomouc (CZE): Victories of Eider Arevalo (COL) and Mayra Perez (GUA)
The 55th edition of the traditional Marching Meeting took place today in Olomouc (CZE). This year the participation was more intense and qualified than usual, with the two main events (those of the 20km men and women) of ...
09/04/2021 - Dominic Ndigiti (KEN) pleads for more race walking events
Africa Under-20 walking race champion Dominic Ndigiti believes the performance levels of Kenyan race walkers can improve with more participation in international events. He hopes for a podium finish at the Senior African Champion...
08/04/2021 - The Cantones de La Coruna have been confirmed for June 5th
The streets of the Cantones will witness again on June 5 a new edition of the Cantones International Grand Prix of Race Walking - Sergio Vázquez Trophy¨ after last year and for the first time in its thirty-four years,...
31/03/2021 - Some news starting from April 1, 2021
When for the third consecutive year you realize that your information work has changed audience, then it is time to ask yourself: "We have done something wrong" or "We have to make some strategic changes, because ...
29/03/2021 - Baldwin City, Kansas USA: 2021 Baker University Relays
Baker is a private university that educates traditional and nontraditional students through small classes, innovative instructors, and rigorous course work. A Baker education is rooted in the liberal arts, a tradition that builds on hi...
28/03/2021 - Bogota (COL): National Walking Championship of Colombia
Yesterday, Saturday 27 March, the 2021 edition of the Colombia National Walking Championship took place in Colombia, at the "Parque Recreo-deportivo el Salitre", with the support of the Colombian Athle...
27/03/2021 - Antalya (TUR): Balkan Championships - Great results of Meryem Bekmez
The Balkan Walking Championships were held today on the beach of Antalya Konyaaltı with the participation of six countries. Hosting them this year is Turkey. Guest nations are Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia with s...
27/03/2021 - Melbourne (AUS): Victories of Rydian Cowley and Jemima Montag in the 20km Australia and Oceania Championships
This morning the Oceania and Australian 20km Walking Championships took place at Fawkner Park in Melbourne. While waiting to receive the usual detailed report from our friend Tim Erickson, we give our readers this initial flash of the ...
26/03/2021 - London (GBR): Callum Wilkinson wins in 1:22:47
This morning the Müller British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trials were held at the Royal Bothanic Garden, Kew in London, valid as selection for the Olympic Games. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, better known as Kew Ga...
26/03/2021 - Jared Tallent announces retirement following a hamstring injury
Jared Tallent will walk proudly into retirement as Australia's most prolific Olympic male track-and-field medallist. He can be just as proud of the public stance he took against the scourge of doping in sport — mo...
25/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): The fastest 20km men in history
A star race was held in Huangshan, in the Anhui region. The weather conditions perfect with 10 degrees at the start and the rain that stopped falling half an hour before the start helped to achieve these great results. Th...
24/03/2021 - Lutsk (UKR): The National Championships of Ukraine
On March 20, the Ukrainian winter walking championship took place in Lutsk, on Volya Avenue. Everything happened: Olympic standards, national records and real sports drama and excitement accompanied the competition. ...
23/03/2021 - Columbia, South Carolina, USA: the Rams College Invitational
The second day of the Rams College Invitational took place on Saturday 23 March in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. The Rams Colleges in USA are Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges in which sports activities are also carried out....
22/03/2021 - Nomi (JPN): 45th edition of the Nomi Tournament
This morning the competitions of the 45th edition of the Nomi Tournament took place in Nomi (JPN). In past years, this competition was also combined with the Asian Championship of 20km of road walking, which unfortunately...
22/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): 20km women. Not just a world record, but a great three-way challenge
After this weekend-end the world of world walking has changed, but this time the pandemic is not involved. Since June 6, 2015, when Liu Hong set the world record in La Coruna, women, also following the exclusion of Russia...
21/03/2021 - Dudince (SVK): The 40th edition
Our great friends from Slovakia and Dudince in particular will not be hurt if this morning caught by the fireworks in both races of Huangshan in China we have neglected the Classic Dudinska 50 now in its 40th edition. A g...
21/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): 50km - Luo Yadong's victory in 3:46:51
With an excellent climate and a temperature between 9 and 11 degrees Celsius, at 6:30 in the morning the almost 40 Chinese athletes of the 50 km walk set off to conquer the national title and qualification in the next Tokyo Olym...
20/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): 20km women. Yang Jiayu new world record, in three under 1:25:00
If the men's 20km was a spectacular race, we don't have an adjective to define that of the women. Participation in Tokyo will be the prize, but also something else. 20km women Six are leading ...
20/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): 20km men victory of Wang Kaihua in 1:16:54
Fireworks this morning in Huangshan on the classic course of each year where the competitions of the first day of the National Winter Championships of China are taking place. The first of the scheduled races starts at 8:0...
19/03/2021 - Huangshan (CHN): China's Winter Walking Championships tomorrow
The Chinese Winter Walking Championships will take place tomorrow in Huangshan (Anhui). Competitions valid as qualifiers for the Olympics. The first three of each competition will be selected for Tokyo. Huangshan is a cit...
18/03/2021 - No more than 10 ANA athletes can participate in the Tokyo Games and Worlds in Oregon.
The World Athletics Council today agreed to reinstate the Authorised Newtral Athlete (ANA) scheme, suspended since last March, allowing individual Russian Competitiorns to qualify for this summer's scheduled Tokyo 2020 Games. ...
15/03/2021 - Bragança Paulista (BRA): Caio Bonfim and Viviane Santana Lyra have won the Copa do Brasil
Race walk weekend also in Brazil despite the pandemic. The Brasil Cup took place in Braganca Paulista, which serves as a national individual and team championship and also as a qualification for the next Copa Panamericana...
14/03/2021 - Murcia (ESP): Victories of Perseus Karlstrom (1:18:43) and Maria Perez (1:28:25) - The Spanish men's title to Diego Garcia
This morning in Murcia (ESP) took place the Spanish Championship of the 20km open and some races reserved for the U20s on shorter distances. 20km men Departure at 10:00 A g...
13/03/2021 - Morona (ECU): Andres Chocho and Erica de Sena win the 35km of Ecuadorian championships
In Ecuador on the Macas circuit near Morona Santiago at an altitude of 1,050m, on Saturday 13 April, the National Walking Championship began as a tribute to the great master Luis Chocho San Martín, pioneer and master of t...
11/03/2021 - 40 years of the Dudinska patdesiatka
It was March 20, 1982 (39 years ago) when Pavol Szikora (CZE) who a few days later would have turned 30 for the first time imposed himself on the finish line of what would become over the years the European queen of the 50km walk: ...
08/03/2021 - Ostia e Grottaglie (ITA): the wind takes, the wind returns.
Riccardo Orsoni and Mariavittoria Becchetti two young promises of the Italian race walk have completed a similar way since January 2021, of successes, small disappointments, battles against Aeolus and finally the day of days in ...
07/03/2021 - Yankton, South Dakota, USA: NAIA Indoor Championships 2021
The NAIA Indoor Championships 2021 took place on Friday 5 March and Saturday 6 March 2021 at the Mount Marty facility in Yankton, South Dakota, USA. NAIA is the acronym of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. &...
07/03/2021 - Newport, UK (GBR): Callum Wilkinson wins with new UK record (39: 05.85)
On Saturday 6 March at the Spytty Park Leisure Center on Treason Road in Newport UK (GBR) the 2021 edition of the Elite Winter Walks took place, a competition reserved for the best GBR athletes. The walking races took place at 1...
07/03/2021 - Grottaglie (ITA): Federico Tontodonati and Eleonora Anna Giorgi Italian champions of the 20km
This morning the Italian road championships of 20km were held in Grottaglie (ITA) with side races The time program is as follows: 9:15 U20 15km men 9:30 20km men and women 11:45 U18 10km students 12:00 U20 10 km wo...
06/03/2021 - Antalya (TUR): National Championships of Turkey - new national records of Meryem Bekmez and Salih Korkmaz
Antalya, a city in Turkey that needs no introduction due to its history, its sea and its surroundings, today hosts the Turkish Open Walking Championships. Not only the interesting Turkish Team of Mustagha Akyavas will be fighting on th...
04/03/2021 - Bermejo (BOL): The National Walking Championships of Bolivia
The Bolivian National Walking Championships were held in Bermejo in the province of Tarija in Bolivia. The scheduled races were as follows: - 20km men and women - 35km men and women - 10km U20 men and women - 10km U18 stu...
03/03/2021 - Grottaglie (ITA): on Sunday the Italian 20km Men and Women Championship
On Sunday 7 March in Grottaglie (ITA) the absolute national championships of the 20km men and women will take place with other side competitions valid for the 2021 Clubs Championship. Are scheduled: - 9:15: 15km U20 men -...
02/03/2021 - San Jeronimo (GUA): Erick Barrondo and María Fernanda Peinado Champions of Guatemala. In light the Mexicans in the 20km men.
On Sunday 28 February, in the streets of San Jerónimo, Baja Verapaz, the national athletic walking championships of Guatemala took place, the first event held in the country with the presence of the main athletes of the c...
01/03/2021 - Santee (USA): Nick Christie and Robyn Stevens win the USA 50km and 35km Championships
On Sunday, February 28, the USATF National Championships of 50km men and 35km women took place in Santee, California (USA). 50km men Nine athletes at the start including two athletes (Jhon Castaneda, USA and...
01/03/2021 - Pombal (POR): Ruben Santos and Maria Bernardo win in Portugal U23 Indoor Championships
Over the past weekend the U23 National Indoor Championships were held in Pombal (POR) in the indoor facility of the Expocentro. The walking events took place in the afternoon session on Saturday 27 February as follows: - ...
28/02/2021 - Megara (GRE): Alexandros Papamichail and Antigoni Drismbioti win the 35km championship of Greece.
The 35 km Panhellenic championship took place today in Megara in the "Varea" area in Megara with our best athletes from Greece competing. In addition to the 35km Panhellenic championship, the 20km, 10km races we...
26/02/2021 - San Jose de Costa Rica (CRC): Alegna Aryday Gonzalez Munoz wins the Championship of Costa Rica in 1:34:02
The first edition of the Costa Rican Walking Championships took place on the road in the Sabanilla area, in conjunction with the cross country championships. The walking events for all categories took place on Sunday 21 F...
25/02/2021 - Results from Torun (POL) and Miramas (FRA) and indoor lists
The past weekend saw a high number of competitions, particularly indoors, in many European countries. Frankly we were not able to follow them all carefully, but in any case of the most important ones we have recorded the ...
24/02/2021 - Massimo Stano became a father
The rush of competitions this past weekend has unfortunately made us overlook perhaps the most important event in life for Massimo Stano. We met him in Ostia (ITA) on the occasion of the Italian 50km Championship on Satur...
23/02/2021 - Logan (USA): River State Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships
The intense indoor activity in the USA continues. The River State Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships took place on Saturday 20 February hosted by the Chieftain Centre of Logan in Ohio in the USA, with two w...
22/02/2021 - Klaipeda (LTU): Brigita Virbalyte and Marius Ziukas win the Lithuania Indoor Championships
The Lithuania Indoor Championships were held at the Klaipeda Sports Hall (LTU). The two walking competitions on the distance of 3.000m indoor for women and 5.000m indoor for men were held on Saturday 20 February 2021. &nb...
21/02/2021 - Kobe (JPN) - Victories of Toshikazu Yamanishi (1:17:20) and Nanako Fujii (1:30:45)
Great morning of walk in Kobe on the classic 1km Rokko Island course. Sunshine, ideal temperature (14°C at the start of the race and 16°C at the end), perfect humidity (67% at the start of the race and 55% at the end) and a sli...
20/02/2021 - Sochi (RUS): the second day of the Winter Championships for Teams
Second day of competitions in Sochi (RUS) for the Winter Championships for Walking Team. It is the day of the track races reserved for the U18 and U16 categories. 10,000m track walk U18 boys Victory D...
20/02/2021 - Ancona (ITA): Valentina Trapletti and Federico Tontodonati win the Absolute Italian Indoor Championships
In Ancona, on the first day of the Italian Absolute Indoor Championships, the two walking races took place on the classic distances of 5,000m indoors for men and 3,000m indoors for women. 3.000m indoor women ...
20/02/2021 - Budapest (HUN): Miklos Domonkos Srp ans Barbara Kovaccare the winner of the Indoor Championships of Hungary
The Hungarian Indoor Championships are being held in Budapest (HUN) in the Syma Hall. On the first day (20.2) the competition of: 5.000m indoor men Four athletes at the start. Victory to Miklos Domonkos Srp...
19/02/2021 - Kobe (JPN) - On Sunday the 104th national championship of Japan in the 20km walk
On Sunday 21 February the 104th edition of the National Road Walking Championships of Japan will take place in Kobe (JPN) on the traditional route of Rokko Island. The scheduled races are as follows: ...
19/02/2021 - Sochi (RUS): Great results at the team winter championships
Winter Walking Championships are being held in Sochi (RUS) which are also valid as team championships of Russia. On Friday, February 19, the road races of the following took place: - 35km (men and women) - 20km (men and w...
19/02/2021 - Elsah (USA): TRXC Timing Opportunity results on 3.000m indoor walk
The intense indoor activity in the USA continues. The TRXC Timing Opportunity 2021 # 3 took place on Friday 19 February hosted by the Elsah Sports Palace in Illimois in the USA, with two walking races over the distance of...
18/02/2021 - Luis Antonio Chocho (ECU): the memory of Ruben Aguilera (ARG)
A great teacher of world athletic walking has left us: Luis Antonio Chocho San Martin World athletics is in mourning. At the age of 64, he died victim of Covid 19 Luis Antonio Chocho San Martin. He was born on Febr...
17/02/2021 - Timbò, Santa Catarina (BRA): the Catarinenses Walking Championships
On Sunday 14th February the Regional Walking Championships took place in Timbò in the Catarina region (BRA). The scheduled races were as follows: - 20km women: 7:00 am - 20km men: 7:00 am - 10km women: 9:15 am - 10...
16/02/2021 - Braga (POR): Rui Coelho and Edna Barros win the Portugal Indoor Championships
The indoor athletics championships of Portugal took place in Braga on Saturday 13 February 2021, with several absences and limited participation of athletes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The two race walk events on the di...
15/02/2021 - Indoor U18 and U20 Championships of Hungary
On Saturday 13 February the U18 and U20 Indoor Championships of Hungary were held at the Budapest stadium. 5.000m indoor walk U20 men A single athlete at the start that unfortunately did not finish th...
15/02/2021 - Ranchi (IND): Gurpreet Singh wins the 50km in 3:59:42
This morning in Ranchi in the state of Jharjhand in India on the second day of the 8th edition of the 2021 National Walking Championships took place. On the present day, there were 35km and 50km men and those of the U20 m...
15/02/2021 - Seville (ESP): great result for Maria Perez in 35km women (2:44:17) and in 50km victory to Claudio Paulino Villanueva
Great participation on Sunday 14 February in Seville in the El Alamillo park, where the 90th edition of the 50km National Walking Championship and a whole series of others events took place. The two main races, that of th...
14/02/2021 - Novo Mesto (SLO): Jaka Grabner and Karin Avsenek win Slovenian Indoor Championships
The Slovenian Indoor Championships are being held in Novo Mesto, in the Olympic Center. On the first day (Saturday 13th) the two walking competitions were held, both covering the 3,000m indoor distance. 3.000m indo...
14/02/2021 - Pireus (GRE): Alexandros Papamichail and Antigoni Drispioti win the Greece Indoor Championships
During the second strong lockdown due to Covid in Attika, the Ministry of Culture and Sport gave permission to the Greek Athletics Federation (SEGAS) to organize the 35th indoor championship at Pireas, Stadium Peace & F...
13/02/2021 - Montreat (USA): good results at the Montreat College Winter Meet on the 3.000m indoor walk
The intense indoor activity in the USA continues. On Friday 12 February hosted by Montreat College in Montreat in New Carolina in the USA, the Montreat College Winter Meet 2021 took place, with two walking competitions over the ...
13/02/2021 - Ancona (ITA): Giada Traina and Diego Gampaolo Italian Indoor U18 champions
The two walking races took place on the first day of the indoor U18 Italian National Championships in Ancona. 3.000m indoor walk U18 girls A group composed of Giada Traina, Giulia Gabriele and Verdian...
13/02/2021 - Ranchi (IND): Kumar Sandeep and Priyanka Goswami win the Indian 20km Championship
This morning in Ranchi in the state of Jharjhand in India, the first day of the 8th edition of the 2021 National Walking Championships took place. This day was the 20km race program for men and women, both d...
11/02/2021 - Murcia (ESP): Six years later Marco De Luca is individual gold in the 2015 European Cup
On February 1, 2021, the Athletics Integrity Unit reviewed the case of Ivan Koskov (RUS). Recall that the athlete had been squalified for four years in 2016 as a result of positivity to EPO. The disqualification had canceled all...
10/02/2021 - Columbia (USA): excellent results at the Rams February Invite 2021 on the 3.000m indoor walk
The intense indoor activity in the USA continues; and this time also the levels of performance are quite in line with those of Europe. The Rams February Invite 2021 took place on Friday and Saturday 5-6 February hosted by...
06/02/2021 - Ancona (ITA): Great result of Davide Finocchietti (U20) in the 5.000m walk at the Italian Indoor U20 and U23 Championships (19:43.77)
Today the Italian U20 and U23 Championships are being held in Ancona. 3.000m indoor U20 women Twelwe athletes at the start. Alessia Titone, Vittoria Di Dato and Alexandrina Mihai immediately ta...
05/02/2021 - Antequera, Malaga (ESP): The road walking championships of Andalusia
The Andalusian Walking Championships for all categories took place on 31 January 2021 in Spain in Antequera in the Malaga region. The test took place without public, on a day when the weather was respected under the drizzle and ...
05/02/2021 - Lamoni, Iowa (USA): Graceland Winter Series 2021 #5
Friday 5 February continued the competitions of the Graceland Winter Series 2021 in the USA in Lamoni, Iowa with two race walking events 3.000m indoor walk men Seven athletes at the start. Vict...
04/02/2021 - El Vendrell (ESP): The road walking championships of Catalonia
Last Sunday (31st) the Catalonia Road Walk Athletics Championships were held, an event intended for the senior, U23, U20, and youth. The competitions were held in the city of El Vendrell, and were integrated into the 6th March G...
03/02/2021 - Clifton Hill (AUS): Excellent results on the 10,000m track race
Generally Marcia dal Mondo does not present on the front page the activity that takes place in Australia which is carried out in an absolutely excellent and complete way by our friend Tim Erickson in his weekly column "Heel...
02/02/2021 - Ancona (ITA): Next Saturday the Italian Indoor U20 and U23 Championships
Saturday 6th February the Italian Indoor Championships begin in the usual location in Ancona. The first of three weeks dedicated to these events will be reserved for U20s and U23s whose races will take place at the following sch...
02/02/2021 - Recife (BRA) - Pernambucan race walking cup
Still race walking on track. This time the occasion is given by the Copa Pernambuco di Marcia which took place on Sunday 31 January 2021 on the track of the Warlindo Carneiro Filho athletics field, in Recife (BRA). The ev...
01/02/2021 - USA: Graceland Winter Series 2021 and Bumble Rumble 2021 Meetings
Saturday 30 January with indoor activities also in the USA. The Graceland Winter Series 2021 was held in Lamoni, Iowa, with two walking races 3.000m indoor walk men Five athletes at the start. ...
31/01/2021 - Chong Ming (CHN): Race walk Meeting
Yesterday, not far from Shanghai, the walking races were held that made the athletes of the Chinese national teams protagonists. The competition took place on a 2km course, in the splendid setting of the new Chong Ming sp...
30/01/2021 - Sumy (UKR): Oleh Svystun and Yana Farina win the Ukraine Indoor Championships
This morning in the Arena of the Sumy State University in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Absolute Indoor Championships were held. The two races, as is often the case in East Countries, were both held over a distance of 5.000m. Re...
29/01/2021 - Raul Gonzalez (MEX): "Updating the rule of race walking" (study of a few years ago)
We had already informed our readers of the evening spent in Ostia with Raul Gonzalez and other fellow race walking judges of international level, and race walking coaches, debating on the problems that have always been an integr...
28/01/2021 - Bhopal (INDIA): new national U20 records for men and women in the 10,000m track walk
The 18th edition of the Athletics Federation Cup of India reserved for U20s took place in India in Bophal (Tatya Tope Nagar Stadium), located in the center of that gigantic Asian country. The two track walking races (10,0...
25/01/2021 - Ostia (ITA): walking lesson by Raul Gonzalez
Friday 22 January 2021 - 7.45 pm Sitting at the table with international judges friends Dolores Rojas, José Dias and Mara Baleani we look through the windows at the gusts of the south-west wind that move the waves of the ...
24/01/2021 - Ostia (ITA): Stronger than the south-west wind of the Tyrrhenian Sea
It's 7:30 on a morning that doesn't look very promising. From the windows of the Hotel on the Ostia seafront you can see the sea choppy by waves that exceed one meter (and maybe even two). And there is one of those south...
22/01/2021 - Minsk (BLR): Alexandr Sipchuk and Yana Zubkova win the University Indoor Championships
On Wednesday and Thursday (20-21 January) in Minsk, the Belarusian University Indoor Championships were held, an event that brought together athletes from 29 universities and whose test program includes race walking on bo...
19/01/2021 - Ostia (ITA): Saturday 50km, 35km women and 20km men and women open
Next Saturday in Ostia (ITA), barring last-minute government decisions to the contrary, the Italian Championship of the 50km for men and 35km for women will finally be held. It was initially scheduled for March 1, 2020 in Bergam...
18/01/2021 - Istanbul (TUR): A storm of records and personal best at the Turkish Indoor National Championships
The Turkish Indoor Championships were held in Istanbul last weekend 5,000m indoor walk women The young Turkish walker, the 21-year-old (born 28.10.1999) Ayse Tekdal (TUR), was the star of these indoor...
15/01/2021 - Kiev (UKR): Olyanovska and Zabuzhenko win the 5.000m indoor
The start of the year in Ukraine is marked by Orthodox Christmas celebrations, with the first competitions having a celebratory spirit. This year, attendance at the traditional Christmas event was drastically curtailed due to Co...
14/01/2021 - Yet another mourning: Bernhard "Bernd" Kannerberg died
Unfortunately, also today January 14, 2021 begins with sad news. I received at 10 in the morning from my old friend of athletics, Dieter Massin (GER) the sad news that Bernhard “Bernd” Kannenberg died last ...
13/01/2021 - ARAF demands punishment of Ivan Noskov for wounding response to World Athletics request
The All-Russian Federation of Athletics (ARAF) proposes to punish the Mordovian walker Ivan Noskov, who served four years of suspension, for having sent an offensive response to a request from the Athletics Integrity Unit, an in...
13/01/2021 - Melbourne (AUS): Rydian Cowley and Jemima Montag wins in SuperNova 5ish
Last Sunday morning saw the first of two elite 10.000m track walk at the George Knott Athletics Track in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia. Numbers were sadly down a bit from the usual ones, as a number of interstate walkers we...
12/01/2021 - Evan Dunfee (CAN): How jumping the queue could destroy amateur sport
Yesterday Evan Dunfee's response to Dick Pound's comments that Olympic athletes should have priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine was posted on Canada's "thexc.org" web site. An opinion that is worth reading als...
11/01/2021 - Koji Hoga Miura (JPN): analysis of the reasons why the definition of race walking should be adapted
We received a further analysis from our friend Koji Hoga Miura, biomechanist of the Japan National Race Walking Team, detailed with graphs on the subject already published on January 3, 2021. ( click here to r...
10/01/2021 - Porto de Mos (POR): The Portuguese championships of 35km and 50km and a 20km open
In the morning of today, with separate departures, the Portuguese National Road Walking Championships were held in Porto de Mos (POR) for the distances of 35km and 50km for both male and female categories. To complement t...
08/01/2021 - Chita, Aichi (JPN): 52nd New Year’s Race Walk
We admit our guilt in not having known that in Japan, Tokyo was not the only walking competition that took place on January 1st. Also in Chita, a small town of less than 90,000 inhabitants in the prefecture of Aichi, loca...
03/01/2021 - Koji Hoga Miura (JPN): the reasons why the definition of race walking should be adapted
Koji Hoga Miura, a well-known university biomechanics and collaborator of the Head Coach of the Japanese national walking team, Fumio Imamura, sent us, with a prayer for publication, this report in which he explains the reasons why, in...
02/01/2021 - The homework of Christmas holidays of Gabriel at 4th year of a High School in Bologna
At the Fermi Scientific High School in Bologna (ITA) the pfrof of phisycal education chose "in order not to overfill the January weeks with tests and questions, I will give you the second grade of the term on ...
01/01/2021 - Tokyo (JPN): Hiroto Jusho and Kumiko Okada win the 69th edition of the New Year Race Walk in Tokyo
Today the good day, but above all the Happy New Year 2021, reaches our readers from the distant Tokyo where the 69th edition of the New Year Race Walk is ending. The scheduled races were a men's 20km with over 60 ...