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12/10/2023 - Ines Henriques' farewell to racing
In an interview with the Lusa Agency, Inês Henriques recalled her sporting journey as "long, beautiful and with ups and downs, like the life". Susana Feitor, her countryman, with whom she shares the absolute record of 1...
08/10/2023 - The new London 2012 protocol ceremony in Hangzhou more than 11 years later
It was August 11, 2012 and the writer was there on the Mall in London judging one of the craziest races in the world history of race walking. Less than two hours later the women's 20km race walk of the Games of the XXX Olympiad wou...
03/10/2023 - Abdon Pamich: his 90th birthday
Abdon Pamich took part in five Olympics (from Melbourne 1956 to Munich 1972, passing through Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968). He was twice on the podium, winning bronze in Rome 1960 (4:27:55.4) behind Don Thompson (4:25:30.0) an...
24/04/2023 - Memories of Cesar Moreno Bravo: Osaka 2007-Beijing 2008
A little over a month ago Cesar Moreno Bravo passed away, a great defender of world race walking, but above all a member of the IAAF Council who has always been dedicated to drafting the rules of race walking. The ...
22/04/2023 - Susana Feitor was appointed President of the Board of Directors of the Sports Foundation
Susana Feitor, the most famous athlete of Rio Maior, was appointed President of the Board of Directors of the Sports Foundation. Race walking coach since 2018, member of the National Sports Council, it was in 1990 that she brought from...
19/04/2023 - South African Olympic race walker Shange jailed for rape
Local media outlet the Ridge Times reported the former African champion was sentenced to 10 years for rape and six months for assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm by the Evander Magistrates Court. These sentences are...
12/03/2023 - Cesar Moreno Bravo (29.3.1934 - 12.3.2023)
Today the world of world race walking has lost one of its most prominent figures: Cesar Moreno Bravo. Cesar Moreno Bravo has been a great lover of race walking ever since in 1968 he acted as General Manager for the Olympi...
15/02/2023 - To our readers
For a series of reasons of various kinds, not least of which are temporal and also of an economic nature, today we have come to the conclusion of interrupting this adventure that began over 18 years ago. The will to continue...
14/02/2023 - Sochi (RUS): All Russian Race Walking Competition - 2nd day
Today we report of the second day of All Russian Racewalking Championship. To be more correct, today there was All Russian Racewalking Competition. The events of today was reserved to race walkers aged between U16 and U18 and wa...
13/02/2023 - Sochi (RUS): Russian Winter Championships - 1st day
Today it was the first Day of the All Russia Team Racewalking Championship. As usual the Championships was held in Sochi (RUS). All the distances today were a difficult trial for athletes because of the weather. It was sunny, but very ...
12/02/2023 - Melbourne (AUS): Victories of Jemima Montag and Perseus Karlstrom at Australian 20km Open Championships
The Australian 20km Race Walking Championships will be held at Melbourne’s Fawkner Park, beginning at 7:00am AEDT, valid as Bronze Level in Race Walking World Tour. Australian and international talent will highlight the Australi...
11/02/2023 - Ancona (ITA): Lucrezia Nieri and Giuseppe Disabato are the U18 Indoor Champions 2023
First day of the Italian U18 Indoor Championships in Ancona with the two walking races. Immediately the first surprise: both in the 3,000m indoor reserved to U18 girls and in the 5,000m indoor reserved to U18 boys, in consideration of the num...
10/02/2023 - France and Italy: the usual story of poor relatives
The exclusion of walking from the French Athletics Indoor Championships, recently announced by the French Athletics Federation (FFA), caused quite a stir in France. The French walkers were very surprised and expres...
05/02/2023 - Cuenca (ESP): Campeonato de Castilla la Mancha de Marcha en Ruta
Cuenca in Spain yesterday hosted the XXXII Race Walking Championships of the Castilla la Mancha region. Interesting results in particular in the Senior men's section in which Alvaro Lopez Nunez and Daniel Ballesteros Go&ntil...
04/02/2023 - Ancona (ITA): Victories of Cosi and Giampaolo in men & Mihai and Traina in women at Italian Indoor Championships
The Indoor Championships reserved for the U20 and U23 are back today, Saturday 4 February 2023 and will take place at the Palaindoor in Ancona. The timetable includes the following events: - 1.55 pm: 3.000m U20 women with 14 entered at...
02/02/2023 - Canberra (AUS) - Supernova 2023 #2 - Victories of Jemima Montag (AUS) and Declan Tingay (AUS)
The second race-test of the Supernova 2023 took place this afternoon (local time). Weather conditions aren't the best possible for walkers. Super windy contitions didn't in favour of the walk of athletes. 10,000m ...
29/01/2023 - Milazzo (ITA): Victories of He Xianghong and Alexandrina Mihai in 20km
Below you'll find a short report of the other events held in Milazzo and valid for the Italian Clubs Championships 20km women Immediately goes to lead Alexandrina Mihai (1st lap: 4:49 - 2nd lap: 9:43). After two laps the adv...
29/01/2023 - Milazzo (ITA): Cui Lihong and Li Maocuo wins the 35km-Italian title to Riccardo Orsoni and Sara Vitiello
Riccardo Orsoni and Sara Vitiello are the first Italian champions of 2023. This is the verdict of the Italian National Championships of the 35 km walk, which took place this morning on the streets of Milazzo (Messina). For both this is the fi...
28/01/2023 - Ciudad de Burjassot (ESP): Victories of Artur Mastianica (LTU) and Maria Perez (ESP)
Buriassot (ESP) hosted the Comunitat Valenciana Autonomic Championship on Saturday 21 January 2023. The competition took place in a circuit of 2km in Avenida Vicente Andres Estelles. 20km men Ten athletes at the start, bu...
28/01/2023 - Canberra-Perisher Valley (AUS) - Supernova 7 Training Camp
The annual Supernova 7 trainings camp (and metabolic study) was held in Australia as usual - but the base venue was settled this year in Perisher Valley, at altitude (1750m). Perisher Valley village (located in NSW Alps) was chosen over the u...
27/01/2023 - Sunday morning the Italian 35km National Championships with other events
If we had to tell a sad race certainly the 35km of the Italian Championship that will take place on Sunday morning in Milazzo, it would be one of them. Certainly not for the efforts of the organisers, the Duilia Amateur Sports Associat...
25/01/2023 - Winston Salem (USA): Indoor season 2023 meetings
The indoor season continues in the United States in Colleges. After the Friends University First Challenge Qualifier held in Wichita, Kansas on January 7, the Mondo College Indoor Invitational took place on January 14 in Winston Salem,...
24/01/2023 - Ciudad de Guatemala (GUA): National Championships of 20km and 35km men and women
The 2023 Guatemalan National Race Walking Championships were also held over the last weekend. The races were held in a circuit on Avenida de la Reforma in Ciudad de Guatemala. The most interesting races were those of the 20km an...
23/01/2023 - Switzerland offers again indoor competitions after 40 years and perhaps more
Indoor walking is not widely practiced. Europe and North America, on the other hand, continue undaunted to have this kind of competitions carried out both at the elite level and at the U20 and U18 level and also at the masters level. &...
22/01/2023 - Schinias (GRE): Kyriaki Filtisakou and Alexandros Papamichail are the new Greek champions in 35km race walk 2023
The Panhellenic Championship 35km men's and women's race walk was the first national event of 2023 of Greece. The races took place in a course located at the Olympic rowing track in Schinias, on Sunday, January 22. Top names...
16/01/2023 - Santee, CA (USA): Nick Christie and Miranda Melville are the winners of the 35km USATF Championships
Santee in California (USA) hosted, in Trolley Square, the 2023 edition of the 35km USA Championships. This competition was awarded the "Silver Label" by World Athletics The prize money was very interesting. Ver...
15/01/2023 - Porto de Mos (POR): Victories of Joao Vieira and Ines Henriques in 35km national championships of Portugal
The eighth edition of the National Road Walking Championships for a distance of 35 km ended, a joint organization of the Portuguese Athletics Federation and the District Athletics Association of Leiria, with the support of the Municipa...
14/01/2023 - Dublin (IRL): National U20 and U23 indoor championships
The Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena of Dublin hosted an exciting day of athletics this Saturday: the 123.ie U20 and U23 Indoor Championships (January 14th). Race walking events were scheduled at: - 15.35 for U20 and U23 women ...
08/01/2023 - Padua (ITA): Alexandrina Mihai (ITA) started the year 2023 with fireworks
In the first sports weekend of January at the Palaindoor of Padua (ITA) the first competitions of the Veneto Regional Indoor Championships were held. The two walking races over the classic distances were held in the late morning of Sun...
06/01/2023 - Canberra (AUS) - Supernova 2023 #1 - Victories of Jemima Montag (AUS) and Declan Tingay (AUS)
The highly anticipated 2023 Australian summer of athletics is set to attract the world’s biggest names down under, with a host of them already settled in. The World Athletics Race Walking Tour stops by the Australian Inst...
02/01/2023 - Chita (JPN): 54° edition of New Year race walk
In Japan to celebrate the new year, January 1, 2023 was not only competed in Tokyo. Today we like to inform our readers, thanks to the help of our friend Akihiro Sugimoto, about the competition that took place in Chita, Aichi near Nago...
01/01/2023 - Tokyo (JPN): Yutaro Murayama won this morning in 1:20:40 the 71st New Year's Race Walking Tournament
As always happens in Japan in Tokyo at 9:20 local time, with impressive punctuality, the first walking race of 2023 was kicked off. It was the 71st edition of the New Year's Tournament, on a beautiful sunny day with a very large group of...