Race walking, or racewalking, 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 assess that this is maintained throughout the race. Typically held on either roads or running tracks, common distances range from 3,000 metres (1.9 mi) up to 100 kilometres (62.1 mi).
Juan Manuel Molina Morote is a male former race walker from Spain. He represented Spain at the Olympics in 2004 and 2008. His foremost achievement was a bronze medal in the 20 km walk event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He competed at seven consecutive editions of the IAAF World Race Walking Cup, first appearing in 1999 and making his last outing in 2012.
Daniel García Córdova is a Mexican race walker. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico.
Nathan Deakes is an Australian former race walker. Deakes trained with the Australian Institute of Sport.
José Manuel ("Chema") Martínez Fernández is a Spanish long-distance runner. He is married to Spanish field hockey player Nuria Moreno.
The Men's 50 km race walk at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 12 in the streets of Helsinki with the goal line situated in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Guillaume LeBlanc is a Canadian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event.
Omar Zepeda de Léon is a Mexican race walker. He finished sixth in the 50 km race at the 2005 World Championships in a personal best time of 3:49:01 hours. He was the bronze medalist in the 50 kilometres walk at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Vladimir Alekseevich Kanaykin is a Russian race walker.
Luis Fernando López Erazo is a Colombian race walker.
Beatriz Pascual Rodríguez is a Spanish race walker. She holds the women's national record for Spain in the 5000 m track walk (20:53.97). She was also Spain's national champion in the 20 km walk event in 2006 and 2008. She represented Spain at the Olympics in 2008 and finished sixth in the women's 20 km walk. She has also competed at the World Championships in Athletics, taking 13th in 2007 and 6th in 2009. She won the bronze medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.
Marco Ray Evoniuk is a retired male race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1984. Evoniuk had qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.
Carl Francis Schueler is a retired male race walker from the United States. Schueler was a four time olympian and the first American to walk the 50k under 4 hours.
Cristian Andrés Chocho León is an Ecuadorian race walker who competes in both the 20 km and 50 km walk events. He is the South American record holder in the 50 km and 20,000 metres walking events.
Mauricio José Arteaga is an Ecuadorian racewalker.
José Leyver Ojeda Blas is a Mexican race walker. He competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Allan Francisco Segura Medina is a Costa Rican race walker. He represented Costa Rica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he became the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. He competed in the men's 20 km race walk, where he finished in thirty-ninth place, with a time of 1:27:10. Segura achieved his best result in race walking, when he finished thirty-second at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia, with the fastest possible time of 1:23:12.
The 1976 World Championships in Athletics was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hosted on 18 September 1976 in Malmö, Sweden, it featured just one event: a men's 50 kilometres race walk contest. The course passed through the streets of the city and the start and finish points were within Malmö Stadion.
Andrey Viktorovich Ruzavin is a Russian racewalking athlete who competes over the 20 kilometres race walk distance. He has a personal best of 1:17:47 hours for the distance, which ranks him in the top twenty of all time. Ruzavin was the silver medallist in the 20 km walk at the 2009 Summer Universiade and a bronze medallist at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup.
Evan Dunfee is a Canadian race walker and Olympian. An Olympic and World medallist, Dunfee first set the Canadian record in the 50 kilometres race walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he placed fourth. He went on to win bronze medals at the 2019 World Athletics Championships and the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was the last time both of those competitions held the 50 km as an event.
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