Saturday 29 September 2007Saransk, Russia – Russia’s Vladimir Kanaykin has in the last few minutes established a new World 20km Race Walk record of 1:17:16* at the 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final being held today.The 22-year-old Russian is a former World Youth and Junior champion and took the European Cup title earlier this year, [...]
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Sep 26
Saransk to host inaugural Final of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge this Saturday
Monte-Carlo – The IAAF Race Walking Challenge is coming to the end of its fifth successful season, and for the first time ever will conclude with a specific Challenge Final, the inaugural edition of which will be held this weekend in Saransk, Russia.Saransk is situated in the Republic of Mordovia which constitutes part of the [...]
Sep 21
UKA – "A future vision for track and field athletic competition”
This is the second stage of UKA’s competition review. The first phase was completed in December 2006 and concluded with “Changing Athletics Competition – analysis and principles.”The second stage develops the principles further into a more detailed vision for track and field competition. The challenge is to deliver a forward looking sport equipped to attract [...]
Sep 12
Get set for Big Walk
Dust off your walking shoes and get ready to join in the second-oldest mass participation event in the world – expected to be “even bigger and better” this year – urge the organisers of the Discovery Cape Times Big Walk. It was announced on Monday at the Sports Science Institute of SA (SSISA) that Discovery [...]
Sep 12
Jane relives pain of Sydney disqualification
SEVEN years on and the horror of being disqualified at the Sydney Olympics has again come back to haunt Jane Saville. For the third time in her career Australia’s walking queen has been kicked out of the 20km event at a major championships but at least in Osaka yesterday it wasn’t when she was leading [...]
Sep 06
Deakes walks the walk and talks the talk
Brad Green – WORLD champion Nathan Deakes has declared he can win medals in both the 20 and 50-kilometre walk events at next year’s Beijing Olympics.Deakes said his success in the 50km event at the recent world championships in Japan has given him the confidence to know he can complete the double in 12 months. [...]
Sep 05
Leicester Walking Club Retain Team Double
(Abbey Park, Leicester 1/9/07) Leicester Walking Club retained both the men’s and women’s team titles at the Jim Sharlott 10Km Open walks on 1 st September 2007. Nuneaton’s Andy Penn, a commonwealth games competitor last year, easily won the men’s race in a time of 48:03 easily beating last year’s winner Mark William’s who finished [...]
Sep 05
New website feature – a forum!
Anyone can add content and comments on any of these posts, but a little like public speaking, some people prefer to keep their views just between friends…. Well, that’s OK – so here’s another place to start off comment, suggest articles/comment to include in Race Walking Record, or just about anythign connected with Race Walking. [...]