With six of his athletes on the podiumin three of the contested tests, China commands the World Walking medal table by teams, which takes place in Oman, with the participation of thirteen Ecuadorian walkers.
The test of Women’s 10 km in the sub-20 category opened the event in Muscat, the port capital of Oman, which had as Chinese winner Jiang Yunyanwho took advantage of his speed in the ninth kilometer of the track to win.
On the final lap, Yunyan picked up the pace and broke away from the pack to cross the finish line solo with 47 minutes 48 seconds.
His partner Jiang Jinyan He quickened his pace at the end and took second place, fifteen seconds behind. Finland’s Heta Veikola was third.
This test had tricolor performance with María José Mendozawhich was located in position 22 with a time of 52 minutes 44 seconds.
in the same distance, under-20 boysthe Chinese Hongren Wang took the gold medal (44 minutes 06 seconds), followed on the podium by the Italian Diego Giampaolo and Chinese Yu Zeng.
The ending was drama and even surprising due to the elimination of Amit Khatri (India) in the last section, when he was leading the test; Same fate for the U-20 world champion Heristone Wanyonyi (Kenya), so Wang was left alone to define the test, while his compatriot Zeng Yu gave up the silver in the last meter against the Italian walker.
The test of China’s 20km women’s double on the podium with Zhenxia Ma and Jiayu Yang, record holder in the distance. Yang dominated the first part of the race, but relented in the last five kilometers, when they put pressure on Ma and the Peruvian Kimberly García, at the end the three members of the podium.
Yang suffered in the final stretch and Ma took the lead to take the gold with 1 hour 30 minutes 22 seconds, followed by Yang, at 1 minute 32 seconds and the Peruvian García at 2 minutes 05 seconds.
in this test Ecuadorian Paula Torres participatedwho with 1 hour 43 minutes 46 seconds occupied the box 23.
The Tricolor performance will continue this Friday from 22:00 with the proof of 35 kilometers, in which Paola Pérez, Glenda Morejón, Magaly Bonilla, Karla Jaramillo and Johanna Ordóñez will be present. In the same distance will be Andrés Chocho, Gonzalo Bustán and Jonathan Amores.
The national performance will close the Saturday (7:00) with Daniel Pintado, Jordy Jiménez and David Hurtado in the 20 kilometers. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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