Race Walking Challenge prepares for 10km finale in Saransk
18.09.2009
The IAAF Race Walking Challenge 2009 closes with its Final in Saransk on Saturday (19).
the end to a season consisting of the World Championships in Berlin, six IAAF permit meetings and three Area races at which points could be garnered with the goal to finish in the overall top eight positions and so share in the $202,000 prize money – equally distributed between men and women - which the IAAF offers for this annual challenge.
Both the men and women will contest 10km distance races in the Final.
There is no doubting that the Mordovian capital of Saransk is currently the supreme centre of Race Walking, you just have to look at the three gold medal winners of the recent 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin for confirmation of that fact as each of the Russian athletes - Olga Kaniskina (women’s 20km), Valeriy Borchin (20km) and Sergey Kirdyapkin (50km) who won those World crowns – each picking up $60,000 from the IAAF in the process – are trained in the race walking centre in Saransk by the same coach Viktor Chegin.
READ MORE - http://www.iaaf.org/WRC09/news/kind=100/newsid=54417.html
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