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2013 European Race Walking Cup
The 2013 European Race Walking Cup was held in Dudince, Slovakia, on 19 May 2013. Complete results were published. Detailed report were given. Medal winners were published on the Athletics Weekly website, Medallists Results Men's 20 km Team (20 km Men) Men's 50 km Team (50 km Men) Men's 10 km (Junior) Team (10 km Junior Men) Women's 20 km Team (20 km Women) Women's 10 km Junior Team (10 km Junior Women) Team (Total) Participation The participation of 282 athletes ( men/ women) from 29 countries is reported. * (1) * (18) * (3) * (10) * (3) * (10) * (16) * (9) * (5) * (14) * (7) * (18) * (10) * (14) * (1) * (3) * (18) * (15) * (7) * (18) * (3) * (18) * (2) * (18) * (5) * (3) * (9) * (18) * (6) References {{European Athletics cups European Race Walking Cup European Race Walking Cup International athletics competitions hosted by Slovakia European Race Walking Cup The European Race Walking Team Championships (European Race Walking Cup until 2021) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Athletic Association
The European Athletic Association (more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 members and is headquartered in Lausanne. Originally created in 1932 as a European Committee, it was made into an independent body during the Bucharest conference of 1969. The first European Athletics congress took place in Paris on 6–8 October 1970, with Dutchman Adriaan Paulen elected as its first president. From a volunteer-led organization based in the acting Secretary's home country, European Athletics has developed into a professional organization with a permanent base in Switzerland. European Athletics runs and regulates several championships and meetings across Europe – both indoor and outdoor. History After the foundation of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in 1912, it was clear there needed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Sokolova
Vera Aleksandrovna Sokolova (russian: Вера Александровна Соколова; born June 8, 1987 in Solianoy, Morgaushsky District, Chuvash Republic) is a Russian race walker. A gold medalist on the track at World Youth and European Junior level, she won her first major senior medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, taking the 20 km road walk bronze medal. She also represented Russia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She won the 2011 Russian Winter Walking Championships in Sochi with a world record in the 20 km road walk of 1:25:08, knocking 33 seconds off the former record set by Olimpiada Ivanova in the 2005 World Championships final. She continues to be coached by Viktor Chegin, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of performance-enhancing drug suspensions against many of his athletes. Doping case In September 2015 IAAF confirmed that Sokolova was provisionally suspended after a sample from an out-of-competition con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzianis Simanovich
Dzianis Simanovich ( be, Дзяніс Сімановіч; born 20 April 1987 in Chișinău, Moldova) is a racewalker for Belarus. He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ..., where he placed 28th and 12th respectively. References 1987 births Living people Belarusian male racewalkers Moldovan male racewalkers Olympic athletes for Belarus Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Chișinău World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andriy Kovenko
Andriy Vitaliyovych Kovenko ( uk, Андрій Віталійович Ковенко; born November 25, 1973) is a Ukrainian race walker. He is a four-time national champion for the 20 km race walk. At age thirty-four, Kovenko made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's 20 km race walk. He finished the race in twenty-fourth place by two seconds behind South Korea's Kim Hyun-Sub Kim Hyun-sub (, or ; born May 31, 1985) is a male race walker from South Korea. He is the first South Korean person who obtained a medal at IAAF World Athletics Championships The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World ..., with a time of 1:22:59. References External links *NBC Olympics Profile Ukrainian male racewalkers Living people Olympic athletes for Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Vinnytsia 1973 births {{Ukraine-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Linke
Christopher Linke (born 24 October 1988 in Potsdam) is a German race walker. He competed in the 50 km event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in 24th place. In the 20 km event at the 2016 Olympics, he finished in 5th place. He also finished in 5th at the 2017 World Championships in that event. In 2019, he competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held bet ... held in Doha, Qatar. He finished in 4th place. Competition record References External links * * 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Potsdam German male racewalkers Olympic male racewalkers Olympic athletes of Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Heffernan
Robert Heffernan (born 28 February 1978) is an Irish race walker. Career At the 2000 Olympics he finished in 28th place, and at the 2004 Olympics he was disqualified, both in the 20 km race walking discipline. At the 2008 Olympic Games he improved, coming eighth in the 20km Walk. His wife Marian Andrews is also national women's 400 metres champion and was on the Irish women's team that finished 4th in the European indoors. On 27 July 2010, Heffernan won the bronze medal in the 2010 European Athletics Championships in the 20 kilometres walk, posting a time of 1:21:00 (achieved retrospectively in 2014 after Russian Stanislav Emelyanov was found to have committed an anti-doping violation). He also finished 4th in the 50km walk in a national record time of 3:45:30.This was an amazing achievement due to the fact it was just 3 days after the 20 km event. At the 2012 Olympics, Heffernan finished ninth in the 20km race. A week later he finished fourth in the 50km, finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafał Augustyn (racewalker)
Rafał Augustyn (born 14 May 1984, in Dębica near Mielec) is a Polish race walker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asse .... Achievements Personal bests Outdoor * 3000 m walk – 11:17.82 (Sosnowiec 2011) * 5000 m walk – 19:26.55 (Kraków 2011) * 10,000 m walk – 40:37.73 (Warsaw 2006) * 10 km walk – 39:47 (Kraków 2010) * 20 km walk – 1:20:53 (Zaniemyśl 2012) * 50 km walk – 3:43:55 (Dudince 2015) Indoor * 5000 m walk – 19:16.51 (Sopot 2014) References * 1984 births Living people Polish male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Poland People from Dębica Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Vieira (racewalker)
João Paulo Garcia Vieira (born 20 February 1976) is a Portuguese racewalker. He placed tenth for Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 20 km walk and third at the 2006 European Championships. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he finished in 11th in the 20 km walk. He became, at 43, the oldest medalist ever at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, finishing second at the 50 km race walk. In 2021, he placed 5th at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ... in the men's 50 kilometres walk and set a season best. His twin brother Sérgio Vieira is a race walker as well. Achievements References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vieira, Joao 1976 births Living people Portuguese male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Tysse
Erik Tysse (born 4 December 1980 in Bergen) is a Norwegian race walker. He has competed at four editions of the World Championships in Athletics and represented Norway at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He began his international career at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics, and finishing in 17th place at his first major event – the 2002 European Athletics Championships. He finished ninth in the men's 20 km race at the 2006 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, but set a Norwegian record of 1:20:34 in the process. He was one of the top performers on the circuit in 2007 and finished second in the rankings in the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge that year. Tysse improved upon his past performance, finishing in sixth place at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, and he also improved his national mark to 1:19:11. Repeating his 2008 victory, he won the 2010 Grande Premio Internacional en Marcha Atletica meeting in Rio Maior, beating Yohann D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruslan Dmytrenko
Ruslan Hryhorovych Dmytrenko ( uk, Руслан Григорович Дмитренко; born 22 March 1986 in Kyiv Oblast) is a Ukrainian racewalker. Career He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ..., where he placed 30th. In February 2019 року he was disqualified until 4 May 2020 for doping rules violation and all his results from 14 August 2009 to 3 August 2012 were annulled. He was injured in a car crash in March 2020. Competition record References 1986 births Living people Ukrainian male racewalkers Olympic athletes of Ukraine Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Ukraine Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Ivanov (racewalker)
Aleksandr Ivanov (born 25 April 1993 in Nizhny Tagil) is a Russian race walker who has been banned for life. The AIU ruled in August 2022 that all results, medals, titles, points, prize money and prizes earned by Ivanov from May 7, 2012, until August 25, 2022, are null and void. Ivanov was hit with a doping ban in March 2019 and all of his results between July 9, 2012, and August 17, 2014, were annulled meaning that he was stripped of a gold medal in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia, as well as a 2012 World Junior Championships silver medal and 2012 European Championships silver medal. It was found he had 4-androstene-3,6, 17-trione and androsta-1,4,6-triene-3, 17-dione in his system in a urine sample taken by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in 2012. It was only in 2017 that the World Anti-Doping Agency The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA; french: Agence mondiale antidopage, AMA) is a foundation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oksana Golyatkina
Oksana or Oxana (, ; be, Аксана), sometimes transliterated as Aksana, is a female given name of Ukrainian origin. The closest equivalent is the Russian name '' Kseniya'' (russian: Ксения, links=no), but the two names coexist in use in both countries and neither of them is a shortening of the other. Origin The names Oksana (), Xana (), Sana () and Kseniya (russian: Ксения, Xenia) are thought to originate from one of two Greek words: Xenia (hospitality) or Xenos (stranger). the dictionary of Russian names. Axana is another alternative spelling. People Oksana * (born 1987), Russian actress *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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