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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Following Ivanova’s footsteps, Kaniskina takes fourth straight 20Km Race Walk title for Russia
Osaka, Japan – With her comfortable victory in the 20Km Race Walk, Olga Kaniskina has followed in the footsteps of her illustrious compatriot Olimpiada Ivanova, who won the world title two years ago in Helsinki with a World record of 1:25:41.Kaniskina is the product of the walking school of Saransk, the capital of Republic of [...]
Colin Griffin takes on the world
“I have been a long time waiting to reach this level and it’s with great satisfaction and, perhaps, relief that this year I finally made it.” Sport – County Leitrim Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
Turava missing from Osaka startlist!
I wrote in Athletics Weekly it would take a freak event for Ryta Turava of Belarus not to win the women’s World Championship 20km walk, to be held early tomorrow in Osaka – and she seems to be mysteriously missing from the IAAF’s startlist. Her sister Elesia Turava was a DNF in the first heat [...]
Perez and Costin, brave men who walk the walk
One of the less remarked-upon sights from Osaka at the weekend was that of Ecuador’s Jefferson Perez collapsing over the line having won the 20-kilo-metre walk at the world championships, his body gyrating in violent spasms of what looked like the mother of all cramps. It was further evidence of the racewalking events being the [...]
Triple gold – Perez again! Paquillo reinstated to silver after appeal
World record holder for the 20km Race Walk, Jefferson Perez of Ecuador lived up to his reputation as a great championships performer by adding another gold medal to his extraordinary showcase which features an Olympic gold medal in Atlanta and World titles in Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2005 plus three World Cup wins in 1997, [...]
Perez makes history with "suicide strategy”
Nick Mulvenney – OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) – Ecuadorean Jefferson Perez’s “suicide strategy” paid off when he became the first man to win three successive world 20km walk titles on Sunday. With his steely gaze fixed determinedly on the middle distance, the 33-year-old made light of the 33 degree Celsius temperatures and high humidity. The one [...]
Costin comeback
By John Haughey BBC Sport – Walker Jamie Costin’s return to major international competition on Friday week should prove to be one of the most heart-warming stories of the World Athletics Championship in Osaka. Costin acknowledges that he was “fierce lucky” not to have been paralysed after being involved in a car accident nine days [...]