2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships

2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships

Official championships logo
Organisers IAAF
Edition 27th
Date 7–8 May
Host city Rome, Italy
Races 5
Official website roma2016.org/
2018

The 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was the 27th edition of the global team racewalking competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was held in Rome, Italy from 7 to 8 May 2016. It was the first edition of the tournament under its new name, having previously been known as the IAAF World Race Walking Cup since 1989.[1][2]

Overview

The programme remained unchanged, with senior men's races over 20 km and 50 km, a 20 km senior women's race, and junior category events for both sexes over 10 km.[3] However, following the approval by the IAAF of the women's 50 km walk as an official event, for the first time women were permitted to enter the 50 km. A separate women's 50 km was not scheduled, but women were allowed to enter the men's event and were treated as equal competitors for team scoring.[4]

The local organising committee was headed by Alfio Giomi, the head of the Italian Athletics Federation, and included Maurizio Damilano, a former Olympic champion in racewalking.[4] The competition was organised at relatively short notice – Cheboksary was originally chosen as the host city but the suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation for systemic doping issues by the IAAF meant the host bidding was reopened.[5][6] Rome was the clear winner in the bidding process in January 2016, with nine votes compared to Guayaquil and Kiev's four and two for Monterrey.[7] It was the fourth time that the competition was held in Italy, with previous editions having visited the country in 1963, 1965 and 2002.[3]

The course was set on the streets of Rome around the Baths of Caracalla. It was a flat looped route, with one loop for the junior races and two for the senior races. The start point was beside the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum and finishing point was the Stadio delle Terme di Caracalla.[4]

Chinese athletes won both the junior races: Ma Zhenxia took the women's title and Zhang Jun the men's.[8][9]

The competition was broadcast on television in the host country by Rai Sport 1 and Rai Sport 2.[10]

In June 2016, the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, reported that Gold medalist in the 50 km men's competition Alex Schwazer had again tested positive to a banned substance. He has since announced at a press conference that he had not taken anabolic steroids, despite his sample from January 1, testing positive on May 12.[11] On 11 August 2016, Schwarzer was stripped of his title and banned for 8 years, due to positive doping test.[12]

Schedule

Date Time Round
7 May 2016
09:30 10 km junior women
10:35 10 km junior men
16:00 Opening ceremony
16:30 20 km women
18:15 20 km men
8 May 2016
09:00 50 km men

All times are local times (GMT+2)

Medal summary

Men

Race Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 20 km walk  Wang Zhen (CHN) 1:19:22  Cai Zelin (CHN) 1:19:34  Álvaro Martín (ESP) 1:19:36
Men's 20 km walk team  China (CHN)
Wang Zhen
Cai Zelin
Wang Kaihua
Li Tianlei
Chen Ding
16  Canada (CAN)
Benjamin Thorne
Iñaki Gomez
Evan Dunfee
Mathieu Bilodeau
27  Ecuador (ECU)
Andrés Chocho
Mauricio Arteaga
Brian Pintado
Jordy Jiménez
41
Men's 50 km walk*  Jared Tallent (AUS) 3:42:36  Ihor Hlavan (UKR) 3:44:02  Marco De Luca (ITA) 3:44:47
Men's 50 km walk team  Italy (ITA)
Marco De Luca
Teodorico Caporaso
Matteo Giupponi
Federico Tontodonati
14  Ukraine (UKR)
Ihor Hlavan
Ivan Banzeruk
Serhiy Budza
Marian Zakalnytstyi
Andriy Hrechovskyi
25  Spain (ESP)
José Ignacio Díaz
Francisco Arcilla
Mikel Odriozola
Pablo Oliva
30
Junior men's 10 km walk  Zhang Jun (CHN) 40:23  Manuel Bermúdez (ESP) 40:27  Noel Alí Chama (MEX) 40:29
Junior men's 10 km walk team  Mexico (MEX)
Noel Alí Chama
Andrés Olivas
8 pts  Peru (PER)
César Augusto Rodríguez
Lenyn Mamani
13 pts  Japan (JPN)
Masatora Kawano
Ryutaro Yamamoto
Masaya Ishikawa
17 pts

Women

Race Gold Silver Bronze
Women's 20 km walk  Maria Guadalupe González (MEX) 1:26:17 AR  Qieyang Shenjie (CHN) 1:26:49  Érica de Sena (BRA) 1:27:18
Women's 20 km walk team  China (CHN)
Liu Hong
Qieyang Shenjie
Lü Xiuzhi
Yang Jiayu
Nie Jingjing
10  Australia (AUS)
Regan Lamble
Beki Smith
Tanya Holliday
Rachel Tallent
Stephanie Stigwood
43  Colombia (COL)
Sandra Arenas
Sandra Galvis
Yeseida Carrillo
Arabelly Orjuela
61
Junior women's 10 km walk  Ma Zhenxia (CHN) 45:25  Ma Li (CHN) 45:25  Valeria Ortuño (MEX) 45:28
Junior women's 10 km walk team  China (CHN)
Ma Zhenxia
Ma Li
Zhang Lifang
3 pts  Mexico (MEX)
Valeria Ortuño
Vivian Castillo
Iliana García
9 pts  Australia (AUS)
Clara Smith
Tayla Paige Billington
Zoe Hunt
21 pts

Medal table

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  China 6 3 0 9
2  Mexico 2 1 2 5
3  Australia 1 1 1 3
4  Italy 1 0 1 2
5  Ukraine 0 2 0 2
6  Spain 0 1 2 3
7  Canada 0 1 0 1
7  Peru 0 1 0 1
9  Brazil 0 0 1 1
9  Colombia 0 0 1 1
9  Ecuador 0 0 1 1
9  Japan 0 0 1 1
Total 10 10 10 30

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