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In dramatic finish, Parshin takes 10,000m Race Walk title - Lille 2011

09.07.2011

Lille, France - There was a dramatic finish to the 10,000m Race Walk when the fourth day’s action at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille got underway on a cool and damp French morning (9).

The first track event saw Manuel Esteban Soto disqualified after outpacing the pre-event favourite Pavel Parshin in the final 50 metres but being adjudged to have broken the rule which says contact must be maintained with the ground particularly in the final straight.

The Colombian, who in the 25 laps competition was in third place almost throughout, had his celebrations in the finish area turn to despair when a judge rushed over to him a minute later and waved the red card.

That saw Parshin awarded the gold medal and become the sixth Russian to win the title after Yevgeniy Demkov clinched the first in Bydgoszcz 12 years earlier.

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