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Number 3: June 2016

Issue 3 1 June 2016

The SAMA championships held in

Pretoria on the 13th

and 14th

of May

where a great success. On the Friday

morning the conditions were excellent

for the 5000m walks which where

particularly eventful.

For me the most exciting of the walks

was the womens under 55 race in which

my training partner had a role to play.

Lauren Phillips had a great start and

was clearly in the lead in the early

rounds of the race. However it was clear

to me that Rhoda Willemse lying

second was taking it easy, and since

she does a lot of distance walking, she

has huge reserves to call on. Lisa

Patterson and Ronel Viljoen were

dicing for the third position. But then the

entire lead group bunched up and Lisa

streaked into the lead with Ronel

following. Lisa built a lead of about 30m

ahead of Ronel. Then Rhoda put on the

pressure, quickly passing Ronel and

catching a tiring Lisa. Once Rhoda took

the lead there was no stopping her!

However it was Frances Kichenbrand

coming back from injury that put in the

best age group performance on the day

with a time of 31:42.31. Welcome back

Frances, we have missed you! Lauren

also had a great result with a time of

30:34.65.

The race begins!

Photo: Dewald Klein

The womens >55 race saw the most

impressive walking of the day with Elsa

Meyer finishing in a brilliant 30:23:47!

Annatjie Greyvenstein (W74) also put

in a stunning performance finishing in

31:49:20. Other excellent age group

performances were walked by Barbara

Nell (W61), who finished in first place in

28:49.86, Hildegard Vey (W74) and

Winnie Koekemoer (65). Watch these

women in Perth!

Elsa Meyer and Annatjie Grevenstein

Photo: Dewald Klein

In the (M>55) 5000m event Jan Bester

(M56) took an early lead and stayed

there with Ray Patterson (M60) just

behind. I was in third place for a short

while but was overtaken by Jaap

Willemse (M59) and Marius Bosman

(M59). Johannes van Zyl (M67) was

hot on my heel at the finish. However

the real heroes of the M>55 race were

Jurgen Spencer (M76) who walked an

excellent 31:25.78 and Gerard van den

Raad (M72) with a 31:08:36. I overheard

Jurgens complaining about the low

oxygen conditions!

The Mens<55 event only had 8

participants and the M50 group lead the

way from start to finish! Kevin Phillips

(M52) took and early and demanding

lead which he held to the end with a

great finishing time of 26:11.61. Frans

Oosthuizen (M54) took the silver in

27:38,44 with Chris Britz taking the

bronze in 28:05,85.

Kevin Phillips in the lead

Photo: Dewald Klein

The 10 and 20 km races on Saturday

14th

took place outside of the stadium on

the south side. Well done to Gerard van

den Raad for his efforts in organising it!

Although later in the race the traffic was

a little annoying I don’t think that it

disadvantaged anybody (even though a

bus did at one point cross the route and

a truck came half way over).

Unfortunately it did start to rain, and

although the rain was light and may not

directly have influenced the walkers, the

road did get very slippery which caused

problems in balance (especially around

the corners) as well as “wheel-spin” on

every step. Without the rain I think we

may have had some even better results

on the day.

The outstanding performers in the 10 km

race were Annatjie Greyvenstein

(W74), Hildegard Vey (W74), Winnie

Koekemoer (65) and Barbara Nell

(W61). Amongst the men it was Jurgen

Spencer (M76) who showed his mettle

regardless of the lack of oxygen!

In the 20 km race Elsa Meyer (W69)

was by far the outstanding performer!

Full graded results are given in

another section.

SAMA Championships, Pilditch, Pretoria 13-14 May 2016

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Lesley van Buuren won the SAMA ‘Best Female Athlete of the

Year 2016’ award with her brilliant performances at the World

Masters Championships in Lyon, France in 2015.

Lesley was born on the 4th April 1962 and took up racewalking

in 2004. In 2007 she started training under Barbara Nell’s

coaching. She has a talent that is truly outstanding and in the

past few years she has excelled both locally as well as

internationally. Her 20 km PB (1:47:57 – W50) was walked in

Stellenbosch on the 11th April 2013.

WMACs Lyon 2015, 14 August W50 20km podium, Annick

Le Mouroux, Lesley Van Buuren, Irina Kokorina

Photo: Emmanuel Tardi

In Lyon, Lesley walked away with three gold medals as well as

the 20 km team challenge silver (for the W35 age group,

together with Ronel Viljoen and Winnie Koekemoer). Lesley

walked a 26:40:56 in the 5 000m (W50) on the track at Lyon.

According to the WMA World Masters Ranking website

(www.mastersrankings.com), this remains the third best time in

this age category in the world in this event in 2015. However,

Lesley remains as the top ranked athlete for 2015 in the 5 000m

W50 race walk with her time of 26:07:13 at the SAMA

championships in Port Elizabeth on the 15th May 2015.

WMACs Lyon 2015, 10 August W50, 10 km race

Photo: Dominique Guebey

Three days after her 5000m win, Lesley again took the gold in

the 10 km road race (W50) in a time of 54:12:00. This remains

the third ranked time in the world last year for this distance and

age group (as per www.mastersrankings.com). Lesley’s superb

effort in the 20 km race in Lyon (1:51:14), however, remains

uncontested as the best time in the world for the W50 20 km

category in 2015. To put this time in context, the second athlete

at Lyon was 1 minute 37 seconds behind Lesley whilst the

bronze winner finished 5 minutes 34 seconds after the race was

won.

Leading the world rankings is not new to Lesley van Buuren. In

2013 she set a new South African W50 10 km record of 52:26

at Oudtshoorn on the 27th April. In 2013, she was ranked first in

the world with her best 5000m and 10 km times (W50) whilst

being ranked second for her 20 km (W50) time

(www.mastersranking.com). Two months after returning from

Lyon, Lesley walked a 54:19 10 km (W50) at the ASA Road

Walking Championships at Youngsfield on the 10th October

2015, winning, the gold, and took the Best Female Masters

Walker award at this event.

Lesley leading the pack at Brazil 2013

Photo: Kevin van Buuren

Having now competed in 3 WMA Championships, Lesley sports

11 Gold and 3 Silver WMA Championship Medals.

Lesley is a lovely character, smiling and friendly and is always

willing to pass on her knowledge at walking clinics in various

places as well as at the monthly CGA training session at the UJ

Soweto campus on a Saturday morning.

Lesley explaining technique at a RWFL clinic in 2014

Photo: Jeanette Verster

Source: Various

Lesley van Buuren - SAMA athlete of the year

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Vincent Siphesihle Nhlapo was born on the 12

th March 2001.

He is a courteous and friendly young man that quickly finds a place in the heart of all that know him. Vincent was born and living in Cruywagen Park, Germiston, when a friend (Whitney Matseba) encouraged him to go along to CGA’s one hour walking challenge four years ago. After a while he stopped going, because without a coach to guide him he was getting nowhere. Later he was spotted by Brenda Wakfer and for a short while Carl Meyer gave him some coaching. Brenda encouraged Vincent (who was in Grade 8 at Princess High in Witpoortjie) to go to trials for acceptance to the High Performance Centre (HPC) school in which he had to walk 1500m in 2014. Later that year Vincent represented the CGA at the SA Walking Championships at Youngsfield Military Base where he walked 3000 m in 17:40 for 7

th place. After the

Championship he heard that he had been accepted into the HPC.

Vincent Nhlapo and Dimakatso Msheba in pace

Vincent, whose family now lives in Bram Fischerville, is a full time boarder at the HPC School and progressing well with his studies and his sport. Chris Britz assisted by Corli Swart coached the walkers at HPC until Corli moved. Since then Mthunzi Mnisi has been working with Chris to train these young walkers. Vincent walked a 28:13 5 km at the SA Racewalking Championships at Youngsfield Military Base to take fourth place. He also walked a 28:38.55 at the ASA U16, Championships at Germiston Stadium on the 31

st March 2016.

Vincent walks 6-10 km on at least 4 days of the week and trains in the Gym on Mondays and Wednesdays in the afternoon after school. He also trains on the 2km loop at the HPC on Tuesday Afternoons and on the track on Thursdays. It is a full and tough Programme but Vincent enjoys the challenge and the way one moves in articulating the racewalk style. Vincent also has some interest in swimming as well as gymnastics.

When asked about school Vincent replied philosophically “School is school!” Classes at HPC are quite small, and Vincent enjoys, in particular, life orientation and life Science (Biology). Vincent dreams of being able to take part in racewalking at an international level, but acknowledges that he still has a lot of work to put in to achieve the times it will take to qualify for a junior event. Next year he will start racing 10 km and then the real challenge begins. Qualifying standards for the World Junior championships are 44:20.00 for the 10000 m! Vincent is a very courteous and personable young man and is well liked by his fellow racewalkers. At this stage he is uncertain where the future will take him but he may study further in the humanities after school.

Vincent, keep working towards your goals, you have the whole racewalking community rooting for you!

Source: Interviewed by Chris C.

Racewalker of the month Vincent Siphesihle Nhlapo – a rising star!

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Wow – What a Comrades – certainly one of the most exciting that I have watched – and the first time since I completed my second comrades in 1985 that I could watch the start without tears – although they almost did come while watching the end of the women’s race. I certainly think that in essence there were two clear winners in that race. Although, really every person starting the comrades is a winner – the mere fact that you have got to that start line is a tremendous achievement – well done to everyone that made it to the start and a special congratulations to our walkers that walked every step and finished in their planned time – you are a tough bunch indeed! I continue to be encouraged by the great reception of the newsletter from the walking community! Remember the website for back issues (http://racewalking.letlapa.com) and please contribute to the facebook page (South African racewalkers). I have put the resources in place it will also be up to you to ensure that they are used to the best to build community in the sport. Please send me race reports, photos suggestions and articles that you write. Make this YOUR newsletter rather than mine – be a part of the fabric of South African Racewalking.

Source: Results

In my first article actually giving some open statistics, I give the results of the SAMA championships. I have given the actual times achieved as well as the corrected (decimal) time taking out the age factor according to the WMA tables. The percentage given is the percentage of the world open record. In the case of the men’s record (18:05.49) it was set by Hatem Ghoula of Tunisia on the 1st of May 1997 in Tunis. The women’s record of 20:02.60 is held by Gillian O'Sullivan of Ireland and was set on the 13th July 2002 in Dublin.

This shows the tremendous strength that we have in our female masters athletes, who we know are amongst the top in the world. Lesley van Buuren is notable by her absence – she was not competing. I understand that Elsa Meyer will be 70 for the next Masters Games in Perth. The current world record for the 70-75 year age group is 29:16.0 held by Britta Tibling of Sweden. The record was set at San Diego, USA on the 21

st of

July 1989. The age of the record gives some idea of how difficult it will be to crack but if I were a betting man I would bet that it will be broken in Perth this year.

AGN Champs Pilditch 11-Mar-16

Chanice Klink 23 01:00:17.56

Palesa Msheba <19 01:00:24.83

Celeste Scheepers 56 01:04:03.57

Sizwe Ndebele Snr 00:41:45.87

Tumisang, Pule <19 00:46:30,16

Minisis Mtnizi Snr 00:50:25'41

Chris Britz 50 00:56:48.49

Jan Bester 55 00:57:30.39

Francois Oosthuizen 50 01:00:25.50

Marius Bosman 59 01:00:53.77

Corrected results

Open Statistics!

Editorial

Errata

AGN 10 km Open Champs 11 March 2016

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The same procedure was carried out for the 10 km road results. The world Men’s record of 37:11 was set by Roman Rasskazov of Russia on the 28th of May 2000 in Saransk. The women’s record of 41:04 was set by Yelena Nikolayeva of Russia on the 20

th April 1996 in Sochi.

Our top performer here is Annetjie Greyvenstein. The woman’s 70-75 age group world record is held by Britta Tibbling and stands at 01:00:18. It was set in Verona, Italy on the 2

nd of June 1988.

Both the 10 and 20 km races suffered from slippery road conditions due to the rain, otherwise times may well have been considerably better.

The men’s 20 km record of 1:17:21 was set by Jefferson Pérez of Ecuador on the 23rd of August 2003 at Saint-Denis in

France. The woman’s record of 1:24:50 was set by Olimpiada Ivanova of Russia on the 4th of March 2001 in Adler, Russia. Elsa Meyer is again the star performer in this group. Remembering that Elsa will be 70 in Perth, it is notable that the W70 world record is held by Louise Walters of the USA. It was set at Surprise in the USA on the 7th of February 2010 and stands at 2:12:27! Dave Ingram writes an interesting walking blog and has just started a Comrades facebook site – a mutual friend says this of him: “without doubt Dave must be the top endurance walker in the country today. I've never seen somebody walk like him. The hills and mountains didn't stop him on Sunday! He's like a machine on any incline.” Here is Dave’s Comrades report (shortened – for the full story go to http://daveawalker.blogspot.co.za/ ) : What a day.. So we drove the route, as we did Kypie's eyes got wider and wider, fortunately we stopped just after halfway we decided a craft beer was in order to calm our nerves poor Kypie only had a diet coke!! These hill are something else, let no one kid you that this is a down only race....

We caught the bus to the start to alleviate stress, except our bus was so slow it was almost in first gear most of the way. Once in Maritzburg the traffic was so bad we abandoned the bus and walked to the start. Instead of being in the front of H (the last batch) we were pretty much in the middle. The atmosphere is awesome, as we move forward when the ropes come down, batch by batch we edged forward. We got to where E batch started off which is about normal. Out of the blue Heather popped up behind us so great to start with friends around us. I spent much time analysing times vs hopes and expectations. Eventually I worked out that if each 30km leg took less than 4

Full Name Province M/F ~Age Act Time Corr. Time % of WR

Annatjie Greyvenstein GNMA F 71 01:04:09.00 64.150 97.9%

Hildegard Vey WPA F 74 01:12:08.00 72.133 91.6%

Winnie Koekemoer GNMA F 65 01:03:27.00 63.450 90.0%

Barbara Nell CGMA F 61 01:00:45.00 60.750 88.6%

JURGEN SPENCER WP M 76 01:04:05.00 64.083 86.8%

Ann Stead WPA F 69 01:11:27.00 71.450 85.1%

Retha Knoetze GNMA F 61 01:04:54.00 64.900 82.9%

Avril Coats CGMA F 59 01:03:28.00 63.467 82.5%

Ray Patterson GNMA M 63 00:58:16.00 58.267 81.5%

Susan Smith KZN F 60 01:05:26.00 65.433 81.1%

Johannes Van Zyl WPA M 67 01:00:47.00 60.783 81.0%

Margaret Norten WPA F 76 01:25:07.00 85.117 80.5%

Jan Bester GNMA M 56 00:55:49.00 55.817 80.0%

Lorraine Zehmke SWD F 66 01:13:03.00 73.050 79.4%

Gerard Van den Raad GNMA M 72 01:05:49.00 65.817 79.2%

Carol Van der Walt GNMA F 66 01:13:31.00 73.517 78.9%

Carol Rothero CGMA F 59 01:07:10.00 67.167 77.9%

Lauren Phillips CGMA F 51 01:02:45.00 62.750 75.1%

Shiela Pellew KZN F 64 01:15:34.00 75.567 74.4%

Moira King KZN F 60 01:11:47.00 71.783 73.9%

Caroline Jacobs CGMA F 55 01:07:10.00 67.167 73.8%

Celeste Ruck GNMA F 51 01:04:01.00 64.017 73.6%

Marius Bosman GNMA M 59 01:02:30.00 62.500 73.3%

Fred Clements GNMA M 72 01:11:13.00 71.217 73.2%

Les Williams KZN M 65 01:06:40.00 66.667 72.5%

Danie Labuschagne GNMA M 60 01:04:15.00 64.250 72.0%

Susan Katrakazas GNMA F 49 01:03:59.00 63.983 71.8%

Frans Ossthuizen GNMA M 54 01:01:20.00 61.333 71.6%

Lisa Patterson CGMA F 34 00:58:21.00 58.350 70.8%

Ronel Viljoen GNMA F 37 00:59:25.00 59.417 70.3%

Joseph Appel GNMA M 46 00:59:22.00 59.367 69.4%

Bronwyn Lendrum CGMA F 42 01:03:28.00 63.467 67.7%

Teboho Thwahlaka NWNA M 51 01:03:28.00 63.467 67.5%

Jennifer Brown KZN F 48 01:08:00.00 68.000 66.8%

Liezel Le Roux GNMA F 36 01:08:10.00 68.167 61.0%

Mathew Watson WPA M 71 01:25:02.00 85.033 60.5%

Comrades Walkers

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hrs we were fine... I started my stopwatch as planned at the gun, and my Garmin at the mat. It took 8 minutes to cross the line. We settled in to a comfortable pace and went through 30km in 3:46 from the mat in 7:33/km pace add the 8 minutes in and we were on about 7:40. The 12 hr bus passed us at about the 5 km, I knew they were going too fast but let them go. At around 25 km just before Camperdown we caught them. My biggest bugbear on comrades is these busses, they block the road and make it "impossible" to pass. We went on the grass to overtake, We hit a downhill through Camperdown so upped the pace to get away. A few km later we met up with Mavis Morris another walker albeit without Ws. She walked with us for quite a long way just fading a bit on the hills. I knew we had to maintain a good pace so kept going on the uphills and allowing Kypie to catch up on the downs. I am much stronger on hills. We settled in to a rhythm and plodded along.... and along.... my but it’s a long way. I try and maintain hydration to a level that I never need to stop.. Kypie was not so successful, but still managed to keep up. We passed 1000 hills chef school but they were not handing out beers for tasting! We went through 60 km in around 3:53 on my Garmin so we had a few more minutes in the bag. Going up Cowies the last major hill Kypie fell back a bit, but I had told him about the downhill, except for another damn bus, dawdling down ... then they jogged a bit till the road narrowed and they slowed to a crawl. We went off passing on the grass again then they started jogging. Kypie confirmed that sub 8:30/km would get him to the end, and I extricated myself from the bus and shot in front, this was around the 70 km, I kept looking back but never saw Kypie. I got into a nice rhythm and just kept going. Those last few kms just drag on and on and on ... and on. I was hoping to at least get a 11:3X but just missed out, 2 years ago I did 11:45:03 now 11:40:06 . Job done for me! Kypie (11:50) and I finished as planned. I got my down PB, I maintained my pace the whole way. I am very happy. My awesome wife did an amazing 9:33 so now has her green number. Now to plan the rest of this years races..

Source: http://daveawalker.blogspot.co.za/ Sunday 24th July has been confirmed as the date for the CGA Provincial Trials at FNB stadium. These will determine the team for the Inter-provincial Competition in October.

Source: Bernard Donelly

A GOAL is a statement describing a broad intent, state or condition. Note that a goal has no specific requirement about what you must do in order to achieve your goal. You should perform a goal analysis by listing performances and actions that would cause you to agree, the goal has been achieved. So, let’s do it, starting with your goal. MY GOAL I WANT TO RACEWALK FASTER, BE STRONGER, APPLY PERFECT TECHNIQUE AND POSTURE AND REACH A PERSONAL BEST PERFORMANCE AT THE OCTOBER 2016 SA RACEWALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS. Typical performance assessment to achieve your goal: 1. I will gradually increase my LSD total weekly km’s by between 10 and 15 km. I will then maintain 60 km/week until it is time to taper for the event. 2. Complete every week’s training schedule to the letter exactly how stated. 3. During the next 3 months I will incorporate into my workout a second “speed session” of 25 min. to improve my anaerobic threshold and VO2 max. This only applies to weeks without races. 4. I am checking every morning my resting heart rate, which indicates signs of possible over-training. I also check at monthly intervals MHR and perceived level of fatigue at that level. 5. I am going to increase and give more attention to detailed warm-up, flexibility and core strength exercises and stretching sequences after warm-up and at the end of all my workouts. 6. I will listen to my body. I will remain calm and focused, and will not panic if I cannot start or complete a session for whatever reason, work, family, weather, discomfort or injury. 7. I am reducing my weight to 75 kg during the month of June 2016. I will weigh myself daily, record and keep stats. Once target reached, I will monitor and make necessary adjustments to maintain ideal. 8. I am to eat healthily; I avoid junk food, take daily 1000mg vitamin C and other recommended supplements, and maintain good immune system. 9. I reduce and maintain my alcohol consumption to one beer, one glass of wine daily and I make no exceptions. 10. I inform my family about my goal and ask them to put up with my commitments towards achieving this goal and where possible give me their best possible support.

10 20 10 20

35 01:00:00 02:02:00 01:07:00 02:00:00

40 01:01:00 02:04:00 01:10:00 02:16:30

45 01:02:30 02:06:00 01:13:00 02:23:00

50 01:04:00 02:09:00 01:16:00 02:29:00

55 01:06:00 02:12:00 01:20:30 02:36:00

60 01:08:00 02:16:00 01:24:30 02:46:00

65 01:13:00 01:32:00

70 01:18:30 01:38:00

75 01:25:00 01:46:30

80 01:28:00 01:52:00

85 01:33:00 02:00:00

90 01:40:00 02:15:00

Men Women

CGA Masters Racewalking Qualifying Times

CGA Provincial trials

Jürgen’s corner

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If you are in agreement that doing/having done and achieved 1 to 10 will attain your goal, the analysis in completed and you are ready for action and getting started. If you are not convinced it will do it for you, you must go on analysing further, make changes and then start with application. Make yourself three copies, keep one next to your bed, read it in the morning to remind you what you are going to do that day. Put a copy on your fridge for when you come home as a reminder. The third copy for your handbag or briefcase as a constant reminder of your goal and the commitment you have made. What you have written is not written in stone. You can make alterations, improvements whenever you feel the goal could be perfected more. Enjoy.

Source: Jürgen Spencer The 47th Naumburg international race took place on Sunday 22 May. Besides the German walkers a good contingent of other nationalities made up the participants. This included a strong Mexican mens 20 km team. The laps were 1 km in length with half of in the shade, which was fortunate since it was a hot day (over 30°C by 10 am).

Nava leading Linke in the 20 km

Photo: Philipp Pohle.

In the mens race Eder Sanchez (Mex) led in the early rounds but the victory, went to Horatio Nava (Mex) in 1:20:56. Christopher Linke (Ger) was second in 1:21:14 and Eder

Sanchez (Mex) third in 1:21:31. Linke won the German title ahead of Hagen Pohle (1:22:34) and Andreas Janker (1:27:04). The Pole Agnieszka Dygacz was the first woman over the finish line in 1:30:27, Claire Tallent (AUS) 1:33:23 and Laura Polli (SUI) 1:34:27 took second and third in a race where the top five women bettered the 1:36:00 required by the IAAF Olympic standard. Lea Dederichs took the German title with 1:42:13, ahead of Maria Unterholzner (2:11:23) and Franziska Spanner (2:14:02).

Womens results

Source: Various

Source: Stefano La Sorda (Facebook) In masters Internationals are no time entry standards and they are open to all. Competing in 5 year age groups means that whatever your age you don't have to dream of past glories you can still enjoy them for real today. What a motivation the 70 and 80 year old are to us youngsters, they clearly demonstrate the immense pleasure racewalking offers regardless of age Brilliant first race over 10k. The weather here is beautiful with cloudless skies but with temperatures in the 20's and humidity over 60% so not perfect for racing (sounds perfect to a South African – Ed). It was raced on a 2km lap starting on the sea front in the town with a straight out and back with a little loop around a car park at the end of each lap. The first race combined M60 and above age groups with all the women age groups and started at 8.30 am. Not surprisingly a small group of younger women went straight into the lead pursued by Ian Richards (M65) and Patrice Brochettes (M60) from France Ian's main rival. Ian picked up a few yellows and backed off deciding not to make a race of it and keep in mind that there was a 30 k on the following day. He finished 44 s Patrice in 54:41 to take the first English gold of the day. Steve Allen (M60) finished in 57:47 just ahead of Kate Donaldson in 57:52 a fine performance as she is only just back from an injury. Malcolm Martin (M60) also back after a recent injury recorded a 59:09. Colin Turner (M70) dropped down 2 age groups to complete the team and secure silver behind the French. Colin, in a class of his own, took gold in 1:00:02. Roger Michel (M65) finished in 1.03.13 and Dave Kates (M65) in 1:05:56 to continue the dominance of the GB M65 team securing another gold.

Pos Surname Name Time Born No.

1 Dygacz Agnieszka Polen (POL) 01:30:27 1985 16

2 Tallent Claire Australien (AUS) 01:33:23 1981 55

3 Polli Laura Schweiz (SUI) 01:34:27 1983 40

4 Martinez Rivera Andrea Mexiko (MEX) 01:35:04 1988 34

5 Pelantova Lucie Tschechien (CZE) 01:35:06 1986 38

6 Ortuño Martinez Valeria Mexiko (MEX) 01:36:40 1998 92

7 Ching Sui Nga Hongkong (HKG) 01:36:49 1987 10

8 Raschchupkina Viktoryia Weißrussland (BLR) 01:36:50 1995 41

9 Silva Lizbeth Mexiko (MEX) 01:39:48 1989 51

10 Gonzalez Huchin Gabriela Gissel Mexiko (MEX) 01:40:23 1991 93

11 Hunt Zoë Australien (AUS) 01:40:31 1997 25

12 Récsei Rita Ungarn (HUN) 01:40:56 1996 42

13 Dederichs Lea ART Düsseldorf 01:42:13 1995 11

14 Ghezelani Bariza Algerien (ALG) 01:43:57 1993 19

15 Sarrazin Annelies Belgien (BEL) 02:00:21 1981 48

16 Barz Pauline Erfurter LAC 02:05:58 1998 3

17 Unterholzner Maria SpVgg Niederaichbach 02:11:23 1968 61

18 Spanner Franziska SpVgg Niederaichbach 02:14:02 1987 52

19 Acuña Jennifer Venezuela (VEN) 02:17:30 1970 1

Country

International News

German RW Championships, Naumburg

Monte Gordo European Masters Non-Stadia

championships (GB point of view)

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Number 3: June 2016

Issue 3 8 June 2016

Anne Wheeler (W60) was the next lady home in 1:04:22 chasing an individual bronze and team medal. Cath Duhig (W60) finished in 1:.04:47. They were able to combine with Angela Martin (W50) finishing in 1:08:47 taking bronze as a W50 team. Finishing the British contingent was Fiona Bishop (W55) in 1:09:55. The 35 to 55 men's race started at 10.00 am when it was getting much hotter. Francisco Reiss (M55) put in his usual powerful and consistent performance to win his age group by almost 5 minutes in 50:20. In the same race was newcomer Ian Torode (M55) who finished in 1.13.02. It would be good to see more newcomers joining us in these masters internationals. Arthur Thomson has just moved into the 80 age group where he won yet another gold in 1:04:59 striving all the way to beat the youngsters. Norbert Will (M80) from Northern Ireland continues to grace these international championships thoroughly enjoying the experience. He finished in 1.18:18 and together with Arthur and Ed won gold in the M75 team competition. Ed Shillabeer (M75) completed the race in 1.10.34. There were excellent performances in W20k and M30k in Monte Gordo, even though it was 26

oC with 52% humidity. Ed

Shillabeer (M75) takes pride of place for his 3:37:17 gold medal performance beating Mexico Olympic 50 km winner and race walking great Christoph Hohne (3:40:04) into second place in the M75 race. Norbert Will (M80) was determined to finish, win a medal and support the team he was walking for, despite a shortage of training as a result of ill health. Norbert won the silver and closed in the M55 age group team for a bronze in 4:07:03. For the M65 group it was business as usual with Ian Richards taking gold in 3:01:55 and with backing from Roger Michel (3:27:33) and Dave Kates (3:37:43) for the gold team medal ahead of Latvia where racewalking seems to be finding a new lease in life. The M60 team was a composite team of Steve Allen (M60), Malcolm Martin (M60) and Ed Shillabeer (M65) and good enough to take the gold. Malcolm was first home in 3:11:22 (5th position). Steve didn't have such a good day but still managed 6th in 3:20:46. This was Francisco Reis's (M55) last race representing GB has he has decided to switch his allegiance back to Portugal. He finished with a gold win in 2:44:04 to add to his 10k win. Newcomer Ian Torode, who has recently started walking and has a marathon running background, finished in a satisfying 4:02:59. Star of the ladies 20 km was Marie Jackson (W55) from the Isle of Man following up her fine performance at the recent National 20 km to take gold in 2:04:32. Marie was joined by Ann Wheeler (W60) in 2:24:51 and Fiona Bishop (W55) 2:31:24 two regulars at these internationals to make a W55 team and win the gold. The two to miss out of being in a women's team were Angela Martin (W50) in 2:24:11and Cath Duhig (W60) in 2:20:04, who took the individual silver. It is a shame that we didn't have an extra lady racing as I am sure we could have structured another team to win another medal. Angela put in another solid performance to finish in just a minute slower than at Hillingdon recently where the conditions were far easier. Overall these championships have been both successful and very enjoyable. Monte Gordo holds memories for many walkers and has become both a favourite holiday and winter training destination with many GB walkers and runners. I am sure this trip will add a few more to their number. All the walkers apart

from Ron Penfold came home with at least one medal. Ron walked well but unfortunately we didn't have enough walkers to make up a team in which he could compete. Next up is Perth.

Source: Ian Richards (facebook) - edited Join other AGN Racewalkers on the track on the third Thursday of the month and experience the new Tuks track!

Source: Chris Britz

Grace Wanjiru from Kenya Defence Forces clocked 1:34:09 to retain her national title for a 15

th time at Kasarani on Friday.

This is also within the Olympic qualifying time Source: Ayumba Ayodi,http://allafrica.com/

Chris Callaghan: Chrisc37@gmail.com

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