The Summer Olympics, for example, has a 20km race walk for men and women, and a 50km for men only. The races are held on the road and track. Put it this way, the average person’s walking pace is ...

The current Olympic program includes three events. Men's 20km Walk Women's 20km Walk Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay The mixed relay makes its Olympic debut in Paris, replacing the men's-only 50km walk ...

Athletes compete in the men’s 50-kilometer race walk on Friday. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so ...

Meanwhile someone has draped a Slovakian flag over Toth's shoulders before he takes the men's 50km race walk gold in 3hr 40min 58sec. Jared Tallent, defending the title he inherited when Russia's ...

The mixed relay was making its Olympic debut to replace the 50km race walk. Martin and Perez timed 2hr 50min 31sec for victory almost a minute ahead of silver medallists Ecuador, with Australia ...

Tomala led the race for more than two hours. Tomala's victory was only his second in international competition; he won the 20km walk at the 2011 Under-23 European Championships. His only Olympic ...

A four-time World Championships team member, Clauson won twenty-nine USATF national titles and still holds five American records in the walks, including a 3:48:04 for 50km in 1999. He represented Team ...