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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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How is judged loss of contact in racewalking: clarifications

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Every time a race walking competition is discussed again in a well-known Italian newspaper or in posts and comments on social media, the amount of incorrect concepts used is amplified when it reaches the generic sports fan, who perhaps thinks he knows all the sports rules and trusts what he reads from others, but in front of the "heel and toe" world gives in to the banality of imaginative and improper reasoning: all to the detriment of the image of the discipline of racewalking. Here are some cl...
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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 still at the CAS: new hearing scheduled in a week

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Yet another chapter of the Schwazer case has been scheduled for February 27, 2024. The former South Tyrolean race walker will once again find himself in a hearing (probably remotely) before the CAS court in Lausanne to once again discuss the request for a doping ban reduction rejected by WADA at the end of 2023. What we read in the only official information on the Court of Arbitration for Sport website is that case no. CAS 2023/A/10209 would concern not an appeal against the World Anti-Doping A...
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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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