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Conference “In memory of Anna Rita Sidoti” 21 May 2015

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Ten years after her death, tomorrow, May 21, 2025, a conference will be held in memory of the World, European and European indoor walking champion Anna Rita Sidoti, to whom the homonymous Comprehensive School Institute of Gioiosa Marea (ME - Italy) is dedicated. The conference will be held at 11:00 am in the Auditorium of the Municipality of Gioiosa Marea with the following structure: • Institutional Greetings from the Headmaster, Prof. Ricciardello Maria • Institutional Greetings from the Sup...
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Giovanni De Benedictis’ 3000m racewalking Italian best performance turns 35 years

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The best Italian performance in racewalk 3000 meters turns 35: 10'47''.11 the extraordinary result of Giovanni De Benedictis is still unbeaten. A stratospheric time that on May 19, 1990 the then standard-bearer of the Carabinieri Sports Center, now in well-deserved retirement also from active service in the italian police force, signed on the track of S. Giovanni Valdarno (ITA). Here for athletics fans a piece of history of the Italian racewalking still present in video on YouTube: Let us rem...
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LIVE STREAMING 17 May: Panamericano de Marcha Anapoima 2025

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One of the most important events for racewalking on the continent is the Pan American Race Walking Championship, which will feature Olympic and world-famous athletes, who will meet in Anapoima (Colombia) tomorrow. The Pan American Championships will feature races on May 17 over 35 and 20 kilometers for both senior categories, while U-20 athletes will compete over 10 kilometers. Timetable for May 17, 2025 (GMT-5) 6:00 35 Km Senior Women 6:15 35 Km Senior Men 7:00 20 Km Senior Women 7:15 20 ...
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LIVE STREAMING 18 may: European Race Walking Team Championships 2025

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This weekend the 93rd edition of Podebrady Walking, valid as European Team Walking Championships. Timetable (UTM+2 time): Saturday, 17th May 2025 (other races) 08:30 Race Walking U23 10 km (Men and Women) 08:31 Race Walking Women 5 km (all categories) 09:20 Race Walking Men 5 km (all categories) Running races to follow. European Race Walking Team Championships 2025 Sunday 18th May 07:30 Senior men & women 35 km 11:25 U20 women 10 km 12:35 Senior women 20km 14:55 U20 men 10 km 1...
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Fortunato’s World indoor record is only European best performance: here’s why

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From news released two days ago from the website of the German Athletics Federation, it has learned that the world record for the 5000m indoor race walk, set last February 22 in Ancona by Francesco Fortunato, has not ratified by World Athletics. The reason, as the original news report states, was that "there were not enough judges present". The WA newsletter of May 5, 2025 describes the issue and the related decision in more detail indicating the lack of level of the judges: Many have not und...
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European Championships U18 Banska Bystrica 2024: racewalking timetable and streaming

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The European Athletics Championships U18 2024 begin today, scheduled in Banska Bystrica (Slovakia) from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st July. The italians in the race walk, over the distance of 5000m, will be the men's Alessio COPPOLA (Trieste Atletica) and Nicolò VIDAL (P.B.M. Bovisio Masciago), while the women's Serena DI FABIO (Polisportiva Tethys Chieti) and Beatrice PALMONARI (Atletica Lugo). The scheduled times for the walking events are as follows: Friday 19 July 7.10pm – 5000 meters women...
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Schwazer returns after 8 years of mock the rules (unpunished)

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Alex Schwazer's doping ban ends today, an event that has divided the world of athletics and racewalking fans. Beyond the clash of opinions of these 8 years, also enriched by sci-fi reconstructions and outright idiocies conveyed by the innocentist media (see support campaigns of the italian sports newspaper "Gazzetta dello sport" and the entertainment program "Le Iene") the sentence was served, even though "Alfred Rainer" (alse name used by Schwazer when he used the "services" of Doc. Michele Fer...
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Schwazer: prosecutor dismisses investigation into alleged conspiracy. No evidence.

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The Tageszeitung newspaper reported today the Bolzano prosecutor's request for dismissal regarding the investigation into the conspiracy theory against Alex Schwazer. After massive investigations also at an international level, with seizures of documentation, files, email communications and only one person under investigation, the prosecutor would have asked for it to be dismissed because the investigation would not have brought about any criminally demonstrable results. The investigations ag...
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EMACNS 2022 in Grosseto. Registration also open to non-European athletes.

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There are just over two months left and the Europe of Masters runners and walkers on road  will meet in Grosseto (Italy) for the first continental outdoor event of 2022. From 12 to 15 May the main city of the "Maremma Toscana" will host these championships, symbol of the complete return to sport after the bad period that the whole world has gone through due to the pandemic. The news is that Master athletes (Over 35) from ALL NATIONALITIES can register to races, not just EMA member federations a...
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Schwazer’s new appeal to suspend disqualification: contrary opinion by WADA, World Athletics, CAS and … Yohann Diniz

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Last week the Swiss Federal Court had been questioned by Alex Schwazer with a new request to suspend his doping disqualification, by virtue of the controversial dismissal order in the criminal proceedings that had seen him investigated under Italian law. The first opinions of the sports institutions WADA, World Athletics and CAS arrived, which expressed themselves, as expected, against the request for an urgent suspension, while FIDAL would have provided a strange answer; on the decision of Pres...
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