WOMEN'S WORLD RECORD FOR 35 KM WALKING IN DUDINCÍ, MARTÍNKOVÁ FOR 20 KM 4.

RESULTS / ERGEBNISSE

GARCÍA LEÓN 35 KM WORLD RECORD HOLDER:

website Garcia Leonova D50 2023 photo Pavol Uhrin 768x5122022 World Champion for 20 and 35 km Kimberly Garcíová Leónová (photo on the left) from Peru formed at the 42nd edition of the Duda fifty in walking (a meeting with a gold statue of the World Athletics Race Walking Tour) basic world record for 35 km in time 2:37:44 h. After the change of discipline (from 50 km to 35 km), World Athletics set a limit of 2:38:00 h, which had to be overcome in order for the performance to be recognized as a world record. Margarita Nikiforova reached this limit last year, but the performance did not enter the record books because Russia had an international distance.

Garcíová León pedaled alone in front from the start and gradually increased her lead over the debutant at 35 km, the Chinese woman Liu Chung, world record holder at 50 km, Olympic winner from Rio 2016 at 20 km and four-time world champion. The Peruvian woman triumphed with a lead of 2:22 min (2:40:06 – Asian record). She won third place Magaly Bonilla from Ecuador (2:46:32). Garcia León split times - 5 km: 22:41, 10 km: 45:03, 15 km: 1:07:29, 20 km: 1:29:58, 25 km: 1:52:29, 30 km: 2: 15:10.

"I did a very good job. We knew that the races in Dudincie are of high quality. I was a bit worried about the weather because there was a strong wind, but I managed it. The last 15 kilometers were already very difficult, even considering the weather. I don't know where my limits are. I'm still working on myself. I will go to the World Championships again in both disciplines. Before Budapest, this was my last thirty-five. After all, I prefer twenty" revealed Kimberly Garcíová León at the finish line.

Among the Czech female competitors, the twenty-second Tereze Ďurdiaková, who crossed the finish line in 3:13:53 and, as the Czech Republic Championship on a 35-kilometer course took place as part of this meeting, won her third title in a row. Klára Hlaváčová (3:29:36) and Štěpánka Pohlová Kučerová (3:30:12) accompanied her to the podium.

website Doctor D50 2023 photo Pavol Uhrin 768x512Mexican José Luis Doctor Morales (photo left) won the men's 2 in a national record of 26:37:XNUMX. which thus improved by one place compared to last year. The second was the experienced Brazilian Ciao Bonfim in 2:27:30 and the bronze goes to China thanks to Lihong Cuia (2:29:00). Vít Hlaváč finished the race in 27th place in 2:43:43 and successfully defended his national championship title from last year ahead of Martin Nedvídek (2:58:01) and Lukáš Gdula (3:02:59).

MARTÍNKOVÁ QUARTER WITH LIMIT FOR ESPOO AT 20 KM:

Eliška Martínková achieved clearly the best Czech result in the women's twenty. It was the first sharp start for coach Kateřina Čermáková's ward. She completed one training race as part of the training camp in Colombia, but in Dudince she already went into the race with a clear ambition, and that was to beat the limit for the start at the Under-23 European Championship, which was set at 1:37, which for Eliška should not have been problem. By the tenth kilometer, she was in fourth place in the intermediate time of 45:57, and at that moment she was losing fifteen seconds to the third Mexican, Sofia Ramos Rodríguez.

In the second half of the race, the loss grew even more and the podium was further away from her. Martínková took fourth place with a time of 1:35:24 she comfortably met the nomination requirement to start at the U23 European Championship in Finland. For a clear sovereign victory, the Mexican Alegna Gonzáles achieved a very high-quality time and also a career high of 1:28:09, ahead of the Puerto Rican Rachelle Perez (1:31:11) and the already mentioned compatriot Sofia Ramos Rodríguez (1:34:22).

In the men's 20-kilometer race, after five years, Colombian Eider Arévalo once again took the Duda primacy. The 2017 world champion got ahead of the then-leading Swede Perse Karlström at the 1th kilometer and then only increased his lead to the finish line. His finish time was 19:23:1. Karlström had to settle for second place in 19:44:1. The third Mexican, Noel Almazán, did not get under 20:1 (20:46:XNUMX). The best Czech competitor Adam Zajíček finished in twenty-eighth place in a personal record of 1:29:03 and he will also compete at the European Walking Team Championship in Poděbrady. On the contrary, he missed the limit for the start at the under-23 European Championships by almost a minute.

The junior women's 10-kilometer race was dominated by the Mexican national team, who provided the complete crew of the winners' podiums. Favorite Karla Ximena Serrano won. The junior world champion from Cali triumphed with a performance of 45:33 ahead of compatriots Maria Fernando Santiago (46:50) and Renata Cortéz Romero (47:30). Even our two best competitors could be satisfied. Eighth Ema Klimentová (50:43) and twelfth Alžběta Franklová (51:59) set personal records and secured participation in the European Team Walking Cup in Poděbrady. Filip Krestianko from home won the junior race on the same track in 43:38.