Issue 803 - April 2010 - Race Walk UK

DQ ZIMMERMANN Moacir BRADQ DOS SANTOS Luiz Filipe BRADQ KING Dominic GBR 1983DQ FLORIDO Rocío ESP 1976Jo (right) makes the podium at Sesto24th IAAF World Race Walking Cup15th - 16th May 2010Chihuahua, MEXICOAlex Wright, international debut20km Women1 SANTOS Vera POR 1981 1h28'292 SEEGER Melanie GER 1977 1h29'203 JACKSON Johanna GBR 1985 1h32'054 TONG Lingling CHN 1992 1h35'175 GAO Ni CHN 1991 1h35'336 MALÍKOVÁ Zuzana SVK 1983 1h36'247 PINEDO Ainoha ESP 1983 1h36'298 FERRARO Federica ITA 1988 1h36'399 POLLI Laura SUI 1983 1h36'5410 MADARÁSZ Viktória HUN 1985 1h39'2811 TRABELSI Chaima TUN 1982 1h40'1312 POLLI Marie SUI 1980 1h41'1513 SOLORZANO Monica MEX 1h42'1214 HE Fenfen CHN 1h45'0215 SPINDLER Tania BRA 1977 1h45'1916 LAFI Olfa TUN 1986 1h45'2117 GERENDÁSI Eszter HUN 85 1:46:4618 MARCHIORI Maura ITA 1959 1h53'18DNF LI Yanfei CHN 1990DNF GIORGI Eleonora ITA 1989DNF PICAGEVICZ Alessandra BRA84DNF MENÉNDEZ Niobe GBR 1966DQ LOUGHNANNE Olive IRL 1976Matej Toth of Slovakia came out of theblue to win the in searing conditions.Slovakia's first ever medallist didn't hitthe front until the last km of the race, inwhich the man whose face adorns everystreet corner in Chihuahua had led for allbut the first 10km. Horacio Nava from thehost city was cheered on by fans all theway held on to silver. In the teamstandings, Mexicans also had to becontent with silver missing out by just 1point as a trio of Chinese all packed inthe top nine. In bronze, Russia and Spainboth totalled 38 points but the medal willbe awarded to the Eastern Europeanstheir last scorer coming in 16th, 6 placesahead of the third scoring Spaniard. -JeffSalvage, www.racewalk.comJonathan Matthews was first American in4:45:52, having also competed last timethe World Cup was held in Mexico 17years ago. With white in his beardbetraying his age, the 53-year-oldMatthews became a favorite of thethousands of spectators who lined thecourse. "The support from the fans forme was really extraordinary," Matthewssaid. "On each of the 25 laps certainspectators around the 2k course cheeredso hard for me that I couldn't help butmake eye contact with them, which madethem cheer even harder. Perhapsbecause I was clearly considerably older