European Athletics European Athletics has received the preliminary entries for the 8th European Cup Race Walking Championships to be held in French town of Metz from May 24. 28 national federations will be represented by over 130 athletes at the one-day meet in the north-eastern French city. The biennial event includes 20km Walks for men [...]
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Feb 25
European Cup of Race Walking site launched to promote 2009 event
Yohann Diniz, Silver Medallist at the 2007 World Championships The European Cup Race Walkingcould be the publicity showcase we have been waiting for. It will introduce the general public to our sport. There has not been an international race walking event in France since 1999, so this will be my first competition at this level [...]
Feb 24
South American athletics mourns the loss of walker Rafael Duarte
Eduardo Biscayart, IAAF Brazilian Race Walking specialist Rafael dos Anjos Fontenelle Duarte tragically died on 22 February in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. The 25-year-old Duarte was found dead in the swimming pool of the condominium where he lived in Brasília. The autopsy examinations determined that the cause of the decease was drowning. Duarte was found [...]
Feb 24
Steyning's race walking cup restored to its former glory
westsussextoday.co.uk A REPLICA cup presented to a race walking champion almost a century ago has been restored to its former glory. The Bertram Nicholls Challenge Cup was presented to Ernie Adcock, who held the record for the fastest time in the 15-mile Steyning walk. With a time of two hours, 29 minutes and 45 seconds, [...]
Feb 21
Pain in Spain – two drawn out 50km's for me in the 1990s…
A week before the Spanish 50km Championship, which will feature the debut a the distance of Francisco Fernandez, two painfully dragged out races in the 1990s for me are among previous championships recalled on the Spanish Association’s site. Interesting, Paquillo won the junior title in 1994 in Palma de Mallorca (prettiest course I ever walked), [...]
Feb 20
Johanna Jackson headlines significant GBR entry at Lugano
Johanna Jackson will be looking to bring her record breaking short distance track spped to her firdst 20km race of the year at Lugano, Switzerland on 4 March. Entries also include the King twins Dan and Dom, plus Luke Finch, in the men’s 20km, as well as Alex Wright and Tom Bosworth in the junior [...]
Feb 18
Good guy Philip Dunn takes another 50km title
Ken Goe, The Oregonian Belated congratulations to Portland’s Philip Dunn, who won his fifth U.S. championship in the 50-kilometer walk on Sunday. I met Dunn in Beijing in the mixed zone after the men’s 50-kilometer event in the Summer Olympics, and was struck by how well-liked he was by his fellow competitors from all over [...]
Feb 17
A grand event as Elliott reaches 1,000
By Gareth Le Prevost Guernsey Press and Star – Guernsey,England,UK MASTERS race-walker Rob Elliott (pictured) stepped across the start line for the 1,000th time in a race-walking event on Sunday in the Sarnia Walking Club’s 5,000 metres track walk. Having taken his first race-walk steps in late 1970 as an 11 year old and with [...]
Feb 15
Another 5000m UK Track Best by Johanna
On Saturday, at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre in the NSW Open, Johanna improved her 2 week old pb to under the 21 minute barrier for a staggering 20:46.58! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!