Jul
02
John Nunn won the 20-kilometer race walk on June 27 at the 2010 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.Nunn, 32, a race walker in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program who trains in San Diego, won the race in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 21.60 seconds.
Defending champion Tim Seaman of New York Athletic Club finished second in 1:33:10.21, followed by Patrick Stroupe in 1:34:53.20.
Nunn and Seaman moved ahead of the lead pack around the eight-kilometer mark. Seaman dropped off the pace a couple kilometers later and Nunn walked the second half of the race by himself to claim his first national crown.“I guess the humidity got to everybody else,” said Nunn, a 2004 Olympian. “I just stayed strong.”
via News – Nunn wins 20K race walk at USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Jun
29
Maria Michta continues to make strides in the racewalk event. This past weekend, she won the USA Outdoor Track and Field 20K racewalk National Championship in Des Moines, IA with a time of 1:39:46.12.Michta, who graduated from Sachem High School in 2004, finished nearly four minutes ahead of Joanne Dow, who finished second in 1:43:18.14.
Teresa Vaill, who holds the American record in the 20K race 1:33:28.15, did not finish the event in Iowa
.In April, Michta returned to Sachem to race at the U.S. Track and Field Racewalk World Cup trials at High School North. She finished fourth overall and recorded the best time of any American woman in the 20K 1:43.47.
via Sachem Patch, NY – Maria Michta Wins U.S. Racewalk Championship.
Jun
21
The Irish 20k walk championships were held in Bedford in conjunction with the EAA Racewalking permit meet with victory going to Brendan Boyce (Letterkenny AC) in a new PB time of 1:26.35 from Michael Doyle (Tara AC) 1:30.12 and David Kidd (St. Laurence O’Toole AC) 1:32.08.
At the England Athletics championships in Bedford there was a clean sweep of medals for Irish walkers in the junior women’s 10k with Emma Doherty (North Belfast Harriers) winning in 52:15.16 from Maeve Curley(Craughwell AC) 52:36.05 and Emma Prendiville (Farranfore Maine Valley AC) 52:51.01.
Also at the England Athletics championships Christine McMahon (Ballymena & Antrim AC) won the junior 400m hurdles in a time of 59.66 which is inside the 60.30 standard for the World junior championships.
Katie Kirk (Lagan Valley AC0 won silver in the junior 400m in a time of 55.11, and Rory Barry was third in the junior 10k walk in 51:56.54
England Athletics Championships Results
via Athletics Ireland AAI » Archive » Olive Loughnane is second in Spain.
Jun
21
JOHANNA JACKSON broke her UK 20km walk record at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in La Coruna on June 19.
The 25-year-old finished seventh in 1:30:41, which translates to an improvement of 35-seconds on her previous UK record which she set in Geneva last year.
The Middlesbrough & Cleveland athlete also set a UK 10km walk record of 43:52 in March, which shows the long-time British No.1 is in top form with the European Championships only five weeks away.
The winner of the 20km walk was Spaniard Beatriz Pascual, who clocked 1:28:05 to defeat Ireland’s world silver medallist Olive Loughnane (1:28:36).
via Athletics Weekly.
Jun
14
12.06.2010
Today, there was a celebration of the end of Olimpiada Ivanova’s race walking career during the Russian Race Walking Championships.
Olimpiada Ivanova has many titles including the 2004 Olympic silver medalist and the 2001 and 2005 World champion. The President of Chuvashia Nikolay Fyodorov took part in the celebration and congratulated Olimpiada.
The boys’ and girls’ races were held after the celebration. Yevgeniy Neustayev won the boys’ 10km clocking 45.24. Nikolayev Malanchev finished second with 45.25 and Yevgeniy Yeldin was third – 45.40. Anna Yermina won the girls’ 5000m with 23.41. Natalya Koployenko was second (23.50) and Olga Nacharkina was third (24.34).
via Russian Athletics.
Jun
14
12.06.2010 – Today, the Russian Race Walking Championships started in Cheboksary, where the 2008 IAAF Race Walking Cup was held. Candidates for Russian team for the European Race Walking Championships in Barcelona will be selected at these championships.
Berlin World Championship 4th placer, World season leader 1:25.11 Anisya Kirdyapkina clocked 1:26.31 in the women’s 20km and beat Tatyana Sibileva on second 1:28.30 and Svetlana Solovyova on third 1:30.55.
Stanislav Yemelyanov won the men’s 20km clocking 1:20.48. Denis Strelkov finished second with 1:21.22, and Andrey Rusavin was third – 1:22.25.
Race walking Head Coach Aleksey Melnikov said, “The first day of the championships was gone very well including the conditions and the weather. The coach council will recommend Anisya Kirdyapkina and Stanislav Yemelyanov to include to the Russian team for Barcelona. We have already included to the team Olga Kaniskina, Vera Sokolova, Valeriy Borchin and Andrey Krivov”.
via Russian Athletics.
Apr
11
Cold weather and gusting winds meant conditions were far from ideal but there were still excellent wins for the Italian pair of Giorgio Rubino and Sibilla Di Vincenzo at the Poděbrady 2010 meeting on Saturday, the fourth of this year's European Athletics Walking Meetings.
Rubino, 25, who was fourth in the men's 20km Walk at last year's World Championships, fulfilled pre-race predictions that he was the man to watch by going to the front early in the men’s 20km event and never being headed at the 78th edition of the famous Czech walking event.
He went through the halfway point in a fast 40:53 before taking the opportunity to ease up slightly over the second 10km and crossed the line in 1:22.22.
Rubino, the fastest man in the 40-strong field with a personal best of 1:19:37, has only been back in full training for a month after suffering a foot injury at the end of last year. His win will have confirmed his belief that he can be a medal contender at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona this summer.
“I needed to test myself in a race and, I must say, I am very pleased with the result. With just over four weeks work in the legs, I could not have asked for better. Now I´ve got to continue working hard until the IAAF Race Walking World Cup in Chihuahua (Mexico) next month, although the ultimate goal remains the European Athletics Championships. In the short term, I will have a couple more outings: next Sunday over 10km in Rivoli and then 1 May at the Sesto San Giovanni event,” commented Rubino.
via European Athletics – Italian walkers in form at Podebrady.
Apr
11
Ivan Trotski and Hanna Drabenia claimed victories at the Belarus Race Walking Cup on Saturday 10.
Trotski clocked and Drabenia clocked 1:21:09 and 1:34:02, respectively, over the 20Km course.
In the men’s race, Trotski, Andrei Talashka and Vitali Talankou were at front of the group until the final lap. Only then, when Talankou began to lag, Trotski and Talashka fought on until the final metres with Trotski was able to pull ahead to win by four seconds.“It was difficult to win today,” Trotski admitted, “as my opponents were seriously ready. That makes it all the more pleasant to win. I hope to develop my success in the next competitions.” In the men’s 35Km, Aliaksandr Kazakou boldly went ahead and led more than half the race all alon. Last year he also moved to the front early but in the last kilometer was overtaken by Andrei Stsepanchuk. This time, the walker from Mogilev successfully completed the work he began to take the first “gold” of his career.
In the women’s 20Km Drabenia and Sniazhana Yurchanka broke from their competitors after six kilometres and marched together almost the same distance, before Drabenia finally broke away to notch a comfortable 26-second victory.
In the junior 10Km races, the victories went to Aleh Sauchanka from the Mogilev region and Marina Kuznyak from the Brest region, clocking 42:03 and 47:42 respectively.
via iaaf.org – Trotski and Drabenia nab Belarus Race Walking Cup victories.
Mar
09
Ecuadorians Rolando Saquipay and Mesías Zapata highlighted the 17th South American Race Walking Championships that took place in Cochabamba on 6-7 March.
Competing at the always challenging altitude of 2574m, the thirty-year-old Saquipay won the 20km event in 1:24:50 7 March, leaving Colombian Gustavo Restrepo in second place with 1:27:40, and Chilean Yerko Araya in third 1:30:45.
To win the event for the second time in his career, after his triumph in Los Ángeles, Chile in 2004, Saquipay took an early lead, and was ahead of compatriot Andrés Chocho by 8 seconds at the 5km split 21:18; by 27 seconds at 10Km 42:34; and by 15 seconds by 15km 1:03:49. Chocho crossed the finish line in 1:26:10, but was disqualified after ending the race.Saquipay, who has a PB of 1:19:21 2005, has recorded his best international performances at the 2004 Olympic Games 17th, 2007 World Championships 12th, and 2004 and 2008 World Cup 12th. The Ecuadorian won the 2005 Pan American Cup, where he set his PB, and was also silver medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games.
via iaaf.org – Ecuadorians shine at South American Race Walking Championships.