¶’09 WC m50 Walk: Sergey Kirdyapkin (Russia) 3:38:35 WL

[bhall]

THE FORMCHART
1. Yohann Diniz (France) ..................3:38:45 (’09)
2. Denis Nizhegorodov (Russia) .....3:34:14 (’08)
3. Alex Schwazer (Italy) ....................3:36:04 (’07)
4. Trond Nymark (Norway) ...............3:41:30 (’06)
5. Jared Tallent (Australia) ...............3:39:27 (’08)
6. Jesús García (Spain) ....................3:39:54 (’97)
7. Francisco Fernández (Spain) ......3:41:02 (’09)
8. Yuriy Andronov (Russia) ..............3:42:06 (’02)
9. Chengliang Zhao (China) .............3:36:13 (’05)
10. Matej Tóth (Slovakia) ..................3:41:32 (’09)

[nevetsllim]

Apparently Fernandez is only doing the 20km walk.

[AS]

A rare news story on a medal contender:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/tal ... ntentSwap1

[gh]

After yesterday, I'm thinking that the 09:00 start they have planned for Friday (when the temps are supposed to be close to 80 at peak) should be pulled back an hour, maybe two.

[croflash]

The weather has been kind today, rain before the competition, but stopped almost as the race got underway.

[LopenUupunut]

The best sort of 50 there is. The smartest guys, and not necessarily the strongest, won. One of the best strategical displays I've ever seen by Kirdyapkin - just a pity he didn't really need it to win...

[Tiago]

Clean sweep for russia,three gold's in the racewalk and likely will be
the only ones.

Sucks for them no w50 km. :lol: :lol:

[Matt1]

Clean sweep for russia,three gold's in the racewalk and likely will be
the only ones.

Sucks for them no w50 km. :lol: :lol:

And you had the temerity to question Dominguez....

[croflash]

Personal Bests for 7 of the first 11, nice 5th place finish for André Höhne.

[Vault-emort]

Great result for Norway and Jesus Angel. Good try by the Aussies. Hopefully this spurs Nathan Deakes' comeback.

[Tiago]

Clean sweep for russia,three gold's in the racewalk and likely will be
the only ones.

Sucks for them no w50 km. :lol: :lol:

And you had the temerity to question Dominguez....

Saransk is the best race walking school on earth.

[gh]

1 995 Sergey Kirdyapkin RUS 3:38:35 (WL)
2 875 Trond Nymark NOR 3:41:16 (NR)
3 365 Jesús Angel García ESP 3:41:37 (SB)
4 922 Grzegorz Sudol POL 3:42:34 (PB)
5 553 André Höhne GER 3:43:19 (PB)
6 120 Luke Adams AUS 3:43:39 (PB)
7 147 Jared Tallent AUS 3:44:50 (SB)
8 635 Marco De Luca ITA 3:46:31 (PB)
9 426 Jarkko Kinnunen FIN 3:47:36 (PB)
10 1070 Matej Tóth SVK 3:48:35

[MJR]

Clean sweep for russia,three gold's in the racewalk and likely will be
the only ones.

Sucks for them no w50 km. :lol: :lol:

And you had the temerity to question Dominguez....

Saransk is the best race walking school on earth.

and this is the reason why they are so good:

http://grg51.typepad.com/steroid_nat...russian-r.html

might want to start looking into the rumors of SARMS usage too. no test for that yet.