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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Jul 28
Spaniard Fernandez sets world record in 10km walk_English_Xinhua
MADRID, July 27 (Xinhua) — Spanish walker Paquillo Fernandez gave himself the perfect send-off for the Olympic Games on Sunday when he smashed the world 10km race walk record. Racing in the Spanish Championships, held on the island of Tenerife, Fernandez, the silver medal winner in Athens four years ago, took five seconds off the [...]
Jul 24
iaaf.org – Belarus selects team of 50 for Beijing
Belarus for the first time in its history sends a big team of 50 athletes with the target of five medals. National team coach Anatoly Baduev commented that, “the majority of the team are young athletes aiming at the 2012 Olympic Games. This time we are expecting medals from hammer thrower Ivan Tsikhan, shot putters [...]
Jul 21
Hamstring forces Deakes to abandon quest for 50km walk gold medal
Len Johnson | July 22, 2008 THE ruptured hamstring that put world champion walker Nathan Deakes out of the Beijing Olympic Games started inconsequentially enough. “I felt a little ‘pop’ in my hamstring,” Deakes said yesterday of the injury that has sidelined the 50 kilometres world championships gold medallist. Some “pop”; within a couple of [...]
Jul 15
Ecuador goes for gold again | Video | Reuters.com
Olympic gold winning walker Jefferson Perez is Ecuador’s best hope of clinching gold in Beijing. The soft-spoken Perez, is considered Ecuador’s greatest athlete in a country where football is king. Deborah Luterbeck reports. Ecuador goes for gold again | Video | Reuters.com Blogged with the Flock Browser
Jul 13
UK Record by Johanna Jackson at Aviva National Championships
15:50 – 5000 METRES WALK Women – Final OFFICIAL RESULTS 1 Johanna JACKSON REDCAR 21:30.75 NR 2 Niobe MENENDEZ STEYNING 25:18.67 3 Diane BRADLEY TONBRIDGE 26:19.45 PB 4 Chelsea O’RAWE HOBBS BLACKHEATH 27:08.03 5 Kathryn GRANGER SHEFFIELD 28:26.81 SB Fiona MCGORUM LEICESTER DNS Split Times1000m Johanna JACKSON REDCAR 4:15.932000m Johanna JACKSON REDCAR (4:19.72) 8:35.653000m Johanna [...]
Jul 11
Invited athletes in the Aviva National Championship this Sunday
Women 5000m WALK DIANE BRADLEY KATIE FORD KATHRYN GRANGER SOPHIE HALES JO JACKSON FIONA MCGORUM NIOBE MENENDEZ CHELSEA O’RAWE HOBBS HOLLY SMITH SHARON TONKS 5000m WALK Men JIMMY BALL THOMAS BOSWORTH SCOTT DAVIS MICHAEL GEORGE SIMON HAMBRIDGE DANIEL KING DOMINIC KING MARK O’KANE NICK SILVESTER BEN WEARS MARK WILLIAMS ALEX WRIGHT
Jul 11
iaaf.org – Junior World Championships – Men’s 10,000m Race Walk
Men’s 10,000m Race Walk Stanislav Emelyanov completed a walks double for Russia in the men’s 25-lap event with a Championship record of 39:35.01. The 17-year-old pulled away from China’s Ding Chen with just over four laps to go and clocked the fourth fastest junior time in history.For Emelyanov, it was his second global title after [...]
Jul 09
iaaf.org – World junior’s Women’s 10,000m Race Walk
Tatyana Mineeva may be little-known outside her native Russia, but after she beat the rest of the world’s top juniors in the women’s 10km walk, that could be about the change.The 17-year-old waited until 11 laps into the race before moving away from the lead group and picking up the pace quite dramatically. iaaf.org – [...]