At the meeting of the Executive Committee of Athletics Federation of Ukraine decided to disqualify Alexei Shelest for doping. In the sample of Ukrainian Alexei Shelest Walker, who was taken by the international laboratory 18 October 2009 during a competition in Skantsorishiate, found a prohibited substance carphedon. At the Board meeting FLAU was considered an [...]
Racewalk.me
Just another WordPress weblog
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dec 17
Round three of Winter Walk League – Isle of Man Today
THERE will be plenty of top-class race walking at St Johns this Sunday when Manx Harriers will be promoting round three in the HSBC Securities Services-sponsored Winter Walking League.Signing-on will take place at Mullen-e-Cloie, the home of St Johns Football Club, from 9.30am with racing scheduled for 10am. Anyone wishing to participate will be made [...]
Dec 17
iaaf.org – Eager to build on solid momentum, Rubino looking towards Chihuahua and Barcelona in 2010
Giorgio Rubino was the best Italian male athlete in 2009, the year which confirmed the 23-year-old from Ostia near Rome as one of the best race walkers in the world. Rubino won the European Walking Racing Cup in Metz (France) in May on a historic day for Italian athletics which claimed a fabulous sweep, as [...]
Dec 15
insidethegames.biz > UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) today officially took over responsibility from UK Sport as the National Anti-Doping Organisation
By Duncan Mackay December 14 – UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) today officially took over responsibility from UK Sport as the National Anti-Doping Organisation for the UK in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. The new organisation will continue existing testing and education programmes but has a broader remit to include results and intelligence management, [...]
Dec 14
Melanie Seeger working on her comeback – Interview with leichtathletik.de
The World Cup in Berlin Melanie Seeger pursued only as a spectator. After a baby break, the race walker, was in 2004 at the Olympic Games in Athens (Greece) Fifth is working on her comeback. What has changed in your life, how she now feels about the issue of doping, and why exactly the right [...]
Dec 11
iaaf.org – Japan and Korea prevent Chinese sweep at East Asian Games – Day 1
In the men’s race(20km Race Walks), Yu Wei, a 22-year-old walker from China had an interesting duel with Japan’s Koichiro Morioka. Wei was the silver medallist at the last Asian Race Walking Championships held in Nomi city, earlier this year, while Morioka, a double bronze medallist from the 2005 and 2007 World University Games, entered [...]
Dec 11
China grabs 7 EAG athletic golds on Dec. 10 _English_Xinhua
HONG KONG, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese athletes brought home 7 gold medals out of a total of ten in the first day competition of track and field at the 5th East Asian Games on Thursday. By a strong finish, race walker Yu Wei won the first athletics gold for China at 1:26:46, narrowly beating [...]
Dec 11
Trans-Tasman walk test announced
The leading race walkers from New Zealand and Australia will step out in the inaugural trans-Tasman test in February. Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) on Friday announced the test on February 13 in Hobart will feature four male and four female athletes from each country competing over 20km. A trial to select the New Zealand team [...]
Dec 09
Walkers feet of clay From Bradford Telegraph and Argus
The latest Northern Area Winter League Race Walking fixture was held over a 9km course at Thornton-le-Clay, near York. Holidays and other commitments meant a smaller-than-normal field for the event, organised by Yorkshire Race Walking Club. Results: 1 P Evenett Redcar RWC 41min 19sec, 2 K Wears Redcar RWC 48.35, 3 A Malone York CIU [...]
Dec 06
Racewalk.com – Looking at the Best – A Detailed Analysis of Elite Race Walking Technique
A Detailed Analysis of Elite Race Walking Technique Looking at the Best, A detailed analysis of elite race walking technique takes the discussion of race walking locomotion further than ever before. By combining high resolution – high speed photography with computer software and detailed measurements, we paint an image of exactly how the best race [...]