RW World Cup

[MJR]

Seriously, the times for the Jr Men were actually pretty decent, especially w/ Barron & Forgues getting big PRs.

You call that decent? The best of them finished some 1.5k behind the winner and was over 3.5 minutes slower than the winner of the junior women's race. Americans are never going to succeed in international RW if the US racewalking community is setting its sights so low that they feel this is good enough.

Never said they were good, just decent based upon the results we've had over the last decade. These 2 were among the 5 youngest in the race & they set major PRs in a major Championship. Those are both positive results.

Americans are never going to succeed in race walking until the feeder systems (NFHS, NCAA, USATF, USOC) get off their collective duffs and put more than $50,000 a year in total expenses for an event to develop elite athletes.

The reason that other nations are so damn good is that they invest $ and people into making it work. Cheboksary has a dedicated training center for Russian walkers. There is another in Italy, Spain, Mexico, China, Australia & Ecuador. Gee whiz, look who won all the medals! If we spent 1/10 of the money on walking that we did on the 100m alone, we'd be getting performances equal or better to that of what LDR has produced in the last 5-6 years. Heck, we had a half-a$$ed program in Chula Vista for 5-6 years and got a medal (& another near miss) with only 5-6 f/t athletes training there! Imagine what we could do with just 100 f/t race walkers in this country.

No one is the RW community is satisfied. We do see this as a positive, though. 2 young kids are making progress toward a goal of be very competitive in 2012, which is the plan w/ them.

[AthleticsInBritain]

Have to admit that Jo Jackson has been a bit disappointing since breaking the British record.

UKA are reporting that Jackson had stomach cramps in Cheboksary, which would explain it.

[Powell]

Seriously, the times for the Jr Men were actually pretty decent, especially w/ Barron & Forgues getting big PRs.

You call that decent? The best of them finished some 1.5k behind the winner and was over 3.5 minutes slower than the winner of the junior women's race. Americans are never going to succeed in international RW if the US racewalking community is setting its sights so low that they feel this is good enough.

[encino]

Congratulations to Philip Dunn on qualifying for his third Olympic Team.

[nevetsllim]

Have to admit that Jo Jackson has been a bit disappointing since breaking the British record.

[Jaack]

Thrilled with Robbie Heffernan's time in the 20k going sub 1'20- I can't BELIEVE that such a time was only good enough for 9th!! The standard was fantastic!

Anyone in the mens top 12 (20k) could medal in Beijing IMHO!
One of the most exciting race prospects for me this year, largely down to Robs competetivness

[LopenUupunut]

Rather than Nizhegorodov's WR (impressive but not a bolt ouf of the blue), I was surprised by Kanaykin's good performance (though I guess I shouldn't be...) Schwazer probably feels like having one third place too many but the Beijing climate should suit him better than either Nizhegorodov or Kanaykin... of course, Osaka's top two (Deakes and Diniz) will be another two hurdles to overwalk there.

[tandfman]

In today's races, USA women 15th out of 17 teams; USA men 11th out of 12 teams.

[MJR]

Women 20 km

1 136 Olga KANISKINA RUS 1:25:42 CR
2 139 Tatyana SIBILEVA RUS 1:26:29 +0:47
3 124 Vera SANTOS POR 1:28:17 PB +2:35
4 134 Lyudmila ARKHIPOVA RUS 1:28:29 +2:47
5 48 Maria VASCO ESP 1:28:39 SB +2:57
6 76 Olive LOUGHNANE IRL 1:29:17 PB +3:35
7 4 Jane SAVILLE AUS 1:29:27 SB +3:45
8 47 Maria Jose POVES ESP 1:29:31 PB +3:49
9 11 Elena GINKO BLR 1:29:35 SB +3:53
10 120 Susana FEITOR POR 1:29:38 +3:56
11 118 Ana CABECINHA POR 1:29:39 PB +3:57
12 99 Sonata MILUSAUSKAITE LTU 1:30:35 NR +4:53
13 61 Sabine ZIMMER GER 1:30:39 SB +4:57
14 63 Athanasia TSOUMELEKA GRE 1:30:40 +4:58
15 60 Melanie SEEGER GER 1:31:09 +5:27
16 155 Vira ZOZULYA UKR 1:31:12 +5:30
17 100 Kristina SALTANOVIC LTU 1:31:21 SB +5:39
18 130 Ana Maria GROZA ROU 1:31:37 SB +5:55
19 123 Ines HENRIQUES POR 1:32:35 +6:53
20 85 Elisa RIGAUDO ITA 1:32:38 SB +6:56
21 131 Claudia STEF ROU 1:33:19 +7:37
22 29 Sandra ZAPATA COL 1:33:22 NR +7:40
23 20 Tania Regina SPINDLER BRA 1:33:23 NR +7:41
24 19 Cisiane LOPES BRA 1:33:44 PB +8:02
25 46 Beatriz PASCUAL ESP 1:33:55 +8:13
26 122 Maribel GONCALVES POR 1:33:56 SB +8:14
27 86 Valentina TRAPLETTI ITA 1:34:10 PB +8:28
28 42 Rocio FLORIDO ESP 1:34:26 +8:44
29 113 Agnieszka DYGACZ POL 1:34:27 +8:45
30 12 Zhanna GOLOVNYA BLR 1:34:56 SB +9:14
31 8 Claire WOODS AUS 1:35:01 +9:19
32 97 Neringa AIDIETYTE LTU 1:35:10 +9:28
33 145 Monica SVENSSON SWE 1:35:18 SB +9:36
34 43 Maria Teresa GARGALLO ESP 1:35:37 +9:55
35 31 Zuzana SCHINDLEROVA CZE 1:36:10 +10:28
36 22 Dan HE CHN 1:36:18 +10:36
37 5 Natalie SAVILLE AUS 1:36:32 +10:50
38 105 Maria Graciela MENDOZA MEX 1:36:40 SB +10:58
39 101 Brigita VIRBALYTE LTU 1:36:52 +11:10
40 127 Veronica BUDILEANU ROU 1:36:57 +11:15
41 150 Olena MIROSHNYCHENKO UKR 1:37:01 +11:19
42 24 Xiaoling SONG CHN 1:37:14 SB +11:32
43 93 Jolanta DUKURE LAT 1:37:39 SB +11:57
44 36 Johana ORDONEZ ECU 1:37:54 PB +12:12
45 57 Johanna JACKSON GBR 1:37:56 +12:14
46 79 Federica FERRARO ITA 1:38:00 PB +12:18
47 69 Edina FUSTI HUN 1:38:28 +12:46
48 109 Maria del Rosario SANCHEZ MEX 1:38:55 SB +13:13
49 111 Paulina BUZIAK POL 1:39:01 +13:19
50 25 Shanshan WANG CHN 1:39:11 SB +13:29
51 142 Marie POLLI SUI 1:39:25 +13:43
52 107 Claudia ORTEGA MEX 1:39:38 PB +13:56
53 67 Evelyn NUNEZ GUA 1:39:56 SB +14:14
54 141 Laura POLLI SUI 1:40:16 +14:34
55 90 Svetlana TOLSTAYA KAZ 1:40:22 +14:40
56 156 Susan ARMENTA USA 1:40:24 +14:42
57 18 Geovana IRUSTA BOL 1:40:39 SB +14:57
58 10 Hanna DRABENIA BLR 1:40:52 +15:10
59 56 Anne-Gaelle RETOUT FRA 1:41:01 PB +15:19
60 98 Jurgita KRINICKAITE-MESKAUSKIENE LTU 1:41:22 +15:40
61 54 Sandra MITROVIC FRA 1:41:44 +16:02
62 96 Agnese PASTARE LAT 1:42:35 PB +16:53
63 143 Maria CZAKOVA SVK 1:42:58 +17:16
64 30 Lucie PELANTOVA CZE 1:43:03 +17:21
65 71 Andrea KOVACS HUN 1:43:32 SB +17:50
66 161 Maria MICHTA USA 1:45:02 PB +19:20
67 152 Olena SHEVCHUK UKR 1:45:15 +19:33
68 163 Jolene MOORE USA 1:45:32 +19:50
69 34 Maritza GUAMAN ECU 1:45:59 PB +20:17
70 87 Galina KICHIGINA KAZ 1:46:45 +21:03
71 108 Esther SANCHEZ MEX 1:47:08 +21:26
72 94 Modra IGNATE LAT 1:47:38 SB +21:56
73 35 Yadira GUAMAN ECU 1:48:12 SB +22:30
74 21 Rachel LAVALLEE CAN 1:48:52 SB +23:10
75 157 Stephanie CASEY USA 1:49:42 +24:00
76 112 Lucyna CHRUSCIEL POL 1:49:51 +24:09
77 104 Sandra EVARISTO MEX 1:50:03 +24:21
78 52 Christine GUINAUDEAU FRA 1:51:12 +25:30
79 89 Anna TEPLYAKOVA KAZ 1:53:06 +27:24
80 38 Hanaa GAD EGY 1:54:45 PB +29:03
81 126 Milexis SEPULVEDA PUR 1:59:16 SB +33:34
158 Samantha COHEN USA DQ
91 Yong-Eun JEON KOR DQ
137 Anisya KIRDYAPKINA RUS DQ
147 Fatma ORMECI TUR DQ
151 Nadiya PROKOPUK UKR DQ
154 Lyudmila YEGOROVA-SHELEST UKR DQ
16 Sniazhana YURCHANKA BLR DQ
80 Rossella GIORDANO ITA DNF
53 Stephanie IUND FRA DNF
115 Sylwia KORZENIOWSKA POL DNF
73 Viktoria MADARASZ HUN DNF
144 Zuzana MALIKOVA SVK DNF
83 Gisella ORSINI ITA DNF
138 Tatyana SHEMYAKINA RUS DNF
6 Megan SZIROM AUS DNF
14 Ryta TURAVA BLR DNF
66 Despina ZAPOUNIDOU GRE DNF
102 Yufang YUAN MAS DNS

[MJR]

Men 50 km

1 237 Denis NIZHEGORODOV RUS 3:34:14 WR
2 232 Vladimir KANAYKIN RUS 3:36:55 PB
3 163 Alex SCHWAZER ITA 3:37:04 SB
4 205 Trond NYMARK NOR 3:44:59 SB
5 84 Mikel ODRIOZOLA ESP 3:47:30 SB
6 194 Horacio NAVA MEX 3:47:55 PB
7 234 Sergey KIRDYAPKIN RUS 3:48:29 SB
8 118 Andre HOHNE GER 3:49:03 SB
9 155 Marco DE LUCA ITA 3:49:21 SB
10 175 Ingus JANEVICS LAT 3:49:50 PB
11 268 Oleksiy KAZANIN UKR 3:50:30 PB
12 188 Mario Ivan FLORES MEX 3:51:16 SB
13 76 Jose Alejandro CAMBIL ESP 3:51:20 PB
14 199 Jesus SANCHEZ MEX 3:51:29 PB
15 80 Jesus Angel GARCIA ESP 3:52:31 SB
16 176 Igors KAZAKEVICS LAT 3:52:45 PB
17 223 Antonio PEREIRA POR 3:53:11 SB
18 191 Daniel GARCIA MEX 3:53:42 SB
19 152 Diego CAFAGNA ITA 3:53:46 PB
20 42 Jianguo ZHAO CHN 3:54:18 SB
21 38 Chao SUN CHN 3:54:52 SB
22 21 Andrei STSEPANCHUK BLR 3:55:09 SB
23 276 Oleksiy SHELEST UKR 3:55:16 PB
24 200 Omar ZEPEDA MEX 3:56:52 SB
25 148 Colin GRIFFIN IRL 3:58:26 SB
26 30 Mario Jose DOS SANTOS JR BRA 3:58:30 NR
27 127 Luis Fernando GARCIA GUA 3:58:33 SB
28 214 Rafal SIKORA POL 3:59:25 PB
29 265 Sergiy BUDZA UKR 3:59:32 SB
30 64 Fausto QUINDE ECU 3:59:33 PB
31 29 Claudio DOS SANTOS BRA 4:00:24 PB
32 217 Augusto CARDOSO POR 4:00:52 SB
33 218 Jorge COSTA POR 4:01:05 SB
34 86 Santiago PEREZ ESP 4:02:09 SB
35 162 Dario PRIVITERA ITA 4:02:32
36 256 Fredrik SVENSSON SWE 4:02:45 SB
37 101 Sebastien BICHE FRA 4:04:08 SB
38 87 Francisco PINARDO ESP 4:04:43
39 112 Eddy ROZE FRA 4:05:03 PB
40 280 Phillip DUNN USA 4:05:10 SB
41 222 Pedro MARTINS POR 4:05:17 SB
42 35 Lianzuo GAO CHN 4:05:19 PB
43 125 Konstadinos STEFANOPOULOS GRE 4:05:24 SB
44 249 Dusan MAJDAN SVK 4:08:56
45 100 Johan AUGERON FRA 4:10:05 PB
46 131 Zoltan CZUKOR HUN 4:10:43
47 53 Milos HOLUSA CZE 4:10:55 SB
48 177 Arnis RUMBENIEKS LAT 4:12:13 SB
49 116 Maik BERGER GER 4:12:15 SB
50 97 Jani LEHTINEN FIN 4:12:55 SB
51 62 Edwin OCHOA ECU 4:13:00 PB
52 59 David GUEVARA ECU 4:15:22 PB
53 4 Duane COUSINS AUS 4:15:34 SB
54 173 Junghyun YIM KOR 4:17:11 PB
55 180 Valerijus GRINKO LTU 4:18:19
56 286 Benjamin SHOREY USA 4:18:46 PB
57 157 Matteo GIUPPONI ITA 4:20:10
58 283 Steve QUIRKE USA 4:22:16 PB
59 137 Laszlo NOVAK HUN 4:23:53
60 114 Dominic KING GBR 4:25:26
61 255 Christer SVENSSON SWE 4:26:54 SB
62 244 Predrag KRSTOVIC SRB 4:29:44 PB
63 144 Harminder SINGH IND 4:35:24
64 248 Bruno GRANDJEAN SUI 4:35:59 SB
65 247 Urbain GIROD SUI 4:36:28 PB
66 25 Yury VARANCHUK BLR 4:38:20 PB
67 99 Timo VILJANEN FIN 4:41:37 SB
68 285 Ray SHARP USA 4:42:00 SB
69 142 Basanta Bahadur RANA IND 4:43:09
70 169 Vitaliy SLEPTSOV KAZ 4:48:05 PB
71 141 Jalan PARAYIL SURENDRAN IND 5:04:31
133 Attila FULOP HUN DQ
15 Aliaksandr KAZAKOU BLR DQ
113 Daniel KING GBR DQ
171 Dae-ro LEE KOR DQ
73 Salvador MIRA ESA DQ
241 Fabio RUZZIER SLO DQ
143 Chandan SINGH IND DQ
201 Harold VAN BEEK NED DQ
40 Shucai XING CHN DQ
32 Cristian BASCUNAN CHI DNF
71 Marco BENAVIDES ESA DNF
279 Matthew BOYLES USA DNF
106 Herve DAVAUX FRA DNF
174 Vjaceslavs GRIGORJEVS LAT DNF
252 Andreas GUSTAFSSON SWE DNF
257 Chokirjon IRMATOV TJK DNF

[AthleticsInBritain]

Really impressed with Kalmykova who would've finished 13th in the men's race with that time.

[MJR]

Seriously, the times for the Jr Men were actually pretty decent, especially w/ Barron & Forgues getting big PRs. A better race by Vergara, who seems a bit off this year, would have moved them up a few slots. Expect that Barron & Forgues might challenge a qualifier for World Jrs this year and surely will go to World Youth next year.

[tandfman]

Hurray!

[MJR]

... but the Jr M & W both beat Egypt & Estonia!!

[tandfman]

The USA was DFL among 19 teams in the men's senior race. Ugh!

http://www.iaaf.org/wrw08/results/event ... m.html#det