Giovanni De Benedictis’ 3000m racewalking Italian best performance turns 35 years

Posted on 19 May, 202519 May, 2025 by Redazione

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...

How is judged loss of contact in racewalking: clarifications

Posted on 15 May, 202531 March, 2026 by Stefano La Sorda

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...

WADA Statement on Alex Schwazer Case

Posted on 22 April, 202123 April, 2021 by Redazione

With regard to the Schwazer case, WADA, with a long press release, has again rejected the accusations of italian judge Walter Pelino going into detail on some aspects of the criminal proceedings in which the athlete disqualified for doping was dismissed from criminal accuses. In essence, WADA highlights how the overwhelming evidence of Schwazer's guilt was totally ignored by the italian judge, who instead set his behavior as if the trial was against WADA, World Athletics and the Cologne laborat...