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1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
The 1977 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, on 24–25 September 1977. For the first time, a new competition name ''IAAF Race Walking World Cup'' was introduced replacing the former Lugano Trophy. As in 1975, there was a women's 5 km race held as invitation event. Mexico was dominant in the men's events, taking the team title and the top two spots in the 20 km and 50 km events through Daniel Bautista, Domingo Colín, Raúl González and Pedro Aroche. Sweden's Siv Gustavsson won the invitational women's event. Complete results were published. Medallists †: Invitation event. Results Men's 20 km Men's 50 km Team (men) The team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results. Women's 5 km† †: Invitation event. Participation The participation of 119 athletes (96 men/23 women) from countries is reported. * (-/1) * (-/1) * (8/-) * (8/-) * (8/-) * (-/1) * (8/-) * (8/-) * (8/-) * (8/) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Damilano
Maurizio Damilano (born 6 April 1957 in Scarnafigi, Italy) is an Italian former race walking, race walker. He won 15 individual medals (22 also with team events), at senior (athletics), senior level, at the International athletics championships and games, International athletics competitions. Biography He was the Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics, 1980 Olympic Champion and the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, 1987 and 1991 World Championships in Athletics, 1991 World Champion in the 20 km race walk. He has 60 caps in Italy national athletics team, national team from 1977 to 1992. Damilano is also the world record holder of the racewalking, 30 km race walk with the time of 2:01:44.1, achieved in Cuneo in 1992. He is the twin brother of the former race walker Giorgio Damilano and of the coach Sandro Damilano. In 1999, Maurizio Damilano and Giorgio Damilano founded Speed walking, Fit Walking. Achievements National titles Maurizio Damilano has won the individual Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Gustafsson
Bo Henning Gustafsson (born 29 September 1954) is a former Swedish athlete who mainly competed in the men's 50 kilometre walk during his career. Biography He competed for Sweden at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's 50 kilometre walk event. Gustafsson was a Latter-day Saint. He was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had joined before he competed in the Olympics. Personal life Gustafsson was born in Strömstad, Sweden to Henning and Klara Gustafsson. He was married to Lis Herrey and they had four sons and one daughter together. Son Andreas Gustafsson, who Bo coaches, is also a Swedish Olympic racewalker, later changing allegiance to USA. From 1996 he is the companion of the Italian racewalker, several times medal at World Athletics Championships and European Athletics Championships, Ileana Salvador. The couple has two daughters, Nicole (born 1995) and Noelle (born 1998) who is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juraj Bencík
Juraj is a given name used in a number of Slavic languages, including Czech, Slovak, and Croatian. Pronounced "You-rye" but with a trilled r. The English equivalent of the name is George. Notable people * Juraj Chmiel, Czech diplomat and politician * Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop and benefactor * Juraj Filas, Slovak composer * Juraj Habdelić, Croatian writer and lexicographer * Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakian director * Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director * Juraj Jánošík, Slovak national hero * Juraj Križanić, Croatian Catholic missionary and first pan-Slavist * Juraj Kucka, Slovak footballer * Juraj Okoličány, Slovak ice hockey referee * Juraj Sviatko, Slovak figure skater * Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Croatian politician, Roman Catholic bishop * Juraj Slafkovský, Slovak ice hockey player * Juraj Hromkovič, Slovak Computer Scientist and Professor at ETH Zürich Derived forms * Jura: ''Czech, Slovak, Moravian, Croatian and Romanian'' * Jure: ''Croatian, Slovene'' * Jurica: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Golubnichiy
Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy ( ua, Володимир Степанович Голубничий; also spelt Vladimir Golubnichy, 2 June 1936 – 16 August 2021) was a Soviet and Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympic medals from 1960 to 1972 and finishing seventh in 1976.Vladimir Golubnichy ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' He became Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968. He is regarded as one of the greatest race walkers of all time and competed at the Olympics on five occasions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976. Biography He was born on 2 June 1936 and raised in , ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartwig Gauder
Hartwig Gauder (10 November 1954 – 22 April 2020) was a German race walker who won a gold medal in the Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Born in West Germany, his family moved to East Germany in 1960 when they inherited property at Ilmenau. Gauder thus competed for East Germany. In 1996 Gauder started suffering from a virus infection of his heart. After living with an artificial heart for several months, he received a heart transplant. He subsequently took part in the New York Marathon several times. Being classified as a disabled participant due to his transplant, he was once disqualified for being too fast as there was a minimum time, which he underran. His recovery from almost dying to returning into a normal life was covered in a documentary shown on German documentary channel Phoenix. Gauder died while undergoing dialysis on 22 April 2020, aged 65. The cause of death was a heart attack complicated by kidney failure Kidney failure, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Bellucci
Sandro Bellucci (born 21 February 1955) is a former Italian race walker. Biography He won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. Heparticipated at two editions of the Summer Olympics (1984 and 1988), he has 31 caps in national team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ... from 1974 to 1991. Achievements See also * Italian all-time lists - 50 km walk References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellucci, Sandro 1955 births Living people People from Lanuvio Italian male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy Medalists at the 1984 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Buccione
Roberto Buccione (born 8 August 1951) is a former Italian racewalker who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 P .... References External links * 1951 births Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Italian male racewalkers Olympic athletes for Italy Living people 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Zambaldo
Armando Zambaldo (born 23 October 1943 in Illasi) is an Italian former racewalker Biography He competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in 20 km walk and finished 6th. Achievements National titles Armando Zambaldo has won 4 times the individual national championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the be .... *4 wins in 20 km walk (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zambaldo, Armando 1943 births Living people Italian male racewalkers Olympic athletes for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1975 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics 20th-century Italian people Sportspeople from the Province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoliy Solomin
Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin (russian: Анатолий Васильевич Соломин; born 2 July 1952) is a former Soviet Ukrainian race walker. Solomin competed in men's 20 km walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics and contended for the gold medal, but was disqualified from the lead shortly before the finish. He was European indoor champion in men's 5000 m walk in 1983 and briefly held the 20 km world best. He was born in Komarovka in Penza Oblast. Career ''Track & Field News'' ranked Solomin in the world's top 10 at 20 km seven times between 1977 and 1984. In July 1978 he walked 20 km in 1:23:30 in Vilnius, breaking the unofficial world record of Mexico's Daniel Bautista by ten seconds. The following month Solomin placed third at the European Championships in Prague, behind Roland Wieser and Pyotr Pochynchuk; Wieser's winning time of 1:23:12 broke Solomin's fresh record by 18 seconds. At the 1980 Summer Olympics Solomin broke away from the main group with Bautis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
