Athletics World Championships | The Japanese walked to a double victory, Aleksi Ojala distributed his strength correctly: “Järki stayed with us”

Sport|Athletics World Championships

Eugene, Oregon

The Japanese took a double victory and Sweden opened its medal account at the World Athletics Championships in the men’s 20 km walk.

Toshikazu Yamanishi and Chef Ikeda fled Sweden Perseus from Karlstömwho lost the gold by 11 seconds and the silver by just four seconds.

Finland Aleksi Ojala was on time 1:23,40 in the finish 20th. Yamanish’s winning time was 1.19.07.

Ojala’s main distance in the World Championships is 35 kilometers, which will be walked early in the morning on the final day, July 24. Finland’s second walker is on the way Brother-Matti “Aku” Partanen.

“This bodes well for the 35 kilometer race. I was able to keep the pace steady the whole time, even though it seemed to speed up a bit at the beginning. The reason kept up and everything worked well,” said Ojala.

Women’s A Peruvian walked to become the 20 kilometer world champion Kimberly García León. Finland Enni Nurmi was 29th in a time of 1:37:29 as a first-timer at the prestigious competition.

“It’s great to be among the 30. With that strength, I made it to the end, even though the last five kilometers were tough,” said Nurmi.

“It feels good when I rose from 55th place in the World Championship ranking to 29th place. Now I have a really good feeling, it was worth coming to these games. Now you know that at the European Championship in August, you dare to trust your own doing.”

Katarzyna Zdziebło was second with a Polish record of 1:27:31. In third place walked China, which won its fourth World Cup or Olympic medal Qieyang Shenjie. Four-time gold medal walker Liu Hong came fifth this time.

León’s winning time of 1:26:58 is a Peruvian record.

In Eugene, the race was held for the first time with a new distance of 35 kilometers instead of the previous grueling 50 kilometers.