<h2>European Race Walking Team Championships</h2>
This is an event dedicated to race walking organised on a biennial basis. This event was established in 1996 and was formerly called, until 2021, the European Race Walking Cup.&nbsp;
It now includes a senior men's and women's 20km and 35km and 10km races for men and women in the U20 category. The team scores are calculated by aggregating the positions of the first three finishers (senior) or two finishers (U20). The team with the lowest aggregate of points will be judged the winner.
At the 2023 European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady, Spain topped the medal table again with six gold medals. Their star performer was Maria Perez who won the 35km race walk title in a world record of 2:37:15 and led Spain to a clean sweep of the individual medals.
Perez provided the second half of a Spanish double after Alvaro Martin won the men's event in a national record of 2:25:35 and also led Spain to the team title.
The Italians also performed brilliantly in Podebrady, coming away with five gold medals in total. Francesco Fortunato won the 20km race walk ahead of two-time winner Perseus Karlstrom and his more revered teammate Massimo Stano and Diego Giampaolo and Giulia Gabriele swept the U20 10km titles for Italy.
At the other end of the age spectrum, 39-year-old Antigoni Ntrismpioti proved her reputation as a fine championship competitor. The double European champion from Munich 2022 won the 20km race walk title for Greece, just ahead of Olympic champion Antonella Palmisano from Italy.&nbsp;
The 2025 edition of the European Race Walking Team Championships will also be held in Podebrady again on 18 May.&nbsp;

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The U20 men&rsquo;s 10km went to form at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady on Sunday (21) with favourite Diego Giampaolo leading the way and also providing the first half of an Italian double.
His lifetime best of 41:47 going into the race was the best time of the year and although he had to be content with a slower 42:16 this time - he was clearly the master of his own destiny.
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He made a move on the sixth lap no-one could live with and although he received a couple of judges&rsquo; warnings, Giampaolo held form to drape the obligatory Italian flag over his shoulders through the tape.
The tall Hayrettin Yildiz from T&uuml;rkiye stayed strong for silver and a lifetime best of 42:24 while Spain&rsquo;s Pablo Rodriguez held on for bronze and a second lifetime best on the podium with 42:37.
They were just that much better than the rest as shown when European U18 champion Frederick Weigel - son of the famous East German race walker and coach Ronald Weigel - came home fourth, 52 seconds down on the winner.&nbsp;
A pivotal moment of the race came when it looked as if Giampaolo literally caught the heel of Yildiz as they completed the seven kilometre-mark. The Turkish race walker had to drop to his knees to pull back on his left shoe dangling from his foot.
But if that was unfortunate, there was nothing either he or any of the other competitors could do about the Italian&rsquo;s push a minute later.
He upped the gears for 4:03 over the next one kilometre and a six-second lead over his pursuers, and that decided the podium.
Another close team finish saw Spain nudge Italy off the top by one point - eight to nine points - with Germany taking bronze ahead of T&uuml;rkiye - again by a single digit with 13 to 14 points.
<h2>Gabriele moves out of reach in the women&rsquo;s U20 race</h2>
And in the last race of the day, Giulia Gabriele gifted Italy its third individual gold of the day and like the U20 men, the 17-year-old struck for home on a decisive sixth lap and opened up a yawning winning gap of more than one minute.
It made the last four kilometres something of a procession and unsurprisingly, Gabriele&rsquo;s winning time of 46:42 was a personal best by 30 seconds.
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The year&rsquo;s European U20 leading time belongs to Aldara Meilan but the Spaniard didn&rsquo;t have the answers this time. However, she still bagged a fine silver in 47:45 and led the Spaniards to the team title to ensure they would top the medal table in Podebrady.
And as a 16-year-old, Meilan has plenty of time to change the hue of her medal.
In a distant third, France&rsquo;s Ana Delahaie sprinted when it mattered to get ahead of the home nation&rsquo;s standout medal home Ema Klimentova.
That effort was to prove pivotal in the team standings with France winning team bronze on countback ahead of the host nation.
And there was also a dramatic twist in the destination of the team title with a late penalty for Giada Traina effectively scuppering Italy&rsquo;s chance of taking the team title along with the individual title.
Spain was the beneficiary as their second counter Griselda Serret came through to finish sixth which ensured the Spaniards would win the team title by one point.
And this had a tangible outcome on the overall medal table with Spain topping proceedings with six gold medals to Italy&rsquo;s five.
The only other gold medal in Podebrady went to Greece with Antigoni Ntrismpioti winning the 20km race walk title - but only just ahead of Antonella Palmisano.
Full results <a href="https://podebrady23results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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Forza Italia! Double Italian U20 10km gold for Giampaolo and Gabriele in Podebrady

A fascinating women's 20km race walk at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady on Sunday (21) finally fell the way of 39-year-old Antigoni Ntrismpioti.
The double European champion proved that age was no barrier when she made a winning move with a lap to go. In doing so, she got the better of Olympic champion Antonella Palmisano, who defied expectations to take silver two years after striking gold on the same course in Podebrady.
In fact, the Italian&rsquo;s last-minute charge still allowed her to grab a national flag and finish only two seconds down albeit as a result of Ntrismpioti joyously waving to all around her to the distinctive sound of Greek bouzouki music.
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Finally, Ana Cabecinha was able to celebrate a major medal with bronze in a season&rsquo;s best of 1:29:35 - her fastest time since 2017 - in what has become a resurgent season for the 39-year-old Portuguese race walker.
Two Ukrainians Lyudmila Olyanovska and Olena Sobchuk were rewarded for their willingness to take on the pace with positions fourth (1:29:58) and fifth (1:30:48) and another early leader Clemence Berretta from France finished sixth in 1:31:14.
The heat had risen to 22 degrees by the time 43 walkers, many wearing caps, got underway. A reasonable 4:31 first kilometre saw the pace increase to four seconds quicker two laps later.
The major shock was world and European silver medallist Katarzyna Zdzieblo from Poland was clearly struggling, five seconds in arrears and fading out of contention already. She would eventually finish 14th in 1:34:18.
Ntrismpioti wisely joined the majority by donning a cap during the fourth lap and that dozen was down to eight with the diminutive Meryem Bekmez from T&uuml;rkiye augmented by Valentina Trapletti joining the phalanx at the front.
The leaders went through quarter distance in 22:26 to underline another increase in pace - an injection that proved a gear too many for Bekmez who quickly became uncoupled from the leaders and later had the ignominy of serving time in the penalty pit-stop area.
The halfway point was reached in 44:47 with Ntrismpioti composed enough to have a quick word to those around her.
And for the first time, Palmisano showed in the centre of the group and moved a single second ahead at 14km much to the surprise of many aficionados of the discipline.
After all, Palmisano had endured an injury-ravaged 2022 with a solitary - and not particularly promising - 10km outing in Madrid last month her only race since glorious gold at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games when she won one of Italy&rsquo;s five gold&nbsp; medals.&nbsp;
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But slowly Ntrismpioti moved through the gaps with only the returning-to-form Olympic champion for company as Olyanovska finally had to let go and was eventually reeled back in by Cabecinha.
Palmisano was gulping air halfway through the penultimate lap, and the Greek&rsquo;s sideways glance showed she knew it. She made her winning move and forged on to her fourth European title in the space of two years having also won the 35km race walk title on this same course two years ago.
In the team race, Italy edged out Ukraine - 21 to 25 points. The telling 18th place for former European Cup 50km champion Eleonora Giorgi proved the difference.
France took bronze thanks in part to a terrific ninth-place and personal best for Pauline Stey in 1:32:21. After dominating the 50km race walk, Spain had to settle for fourth in the team race led by Antia Chamosa who finished seventh in a lifetime best of 1:31:24.
<h2>Cautious approach pays dividends for Fortunato&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2>
His name translates as lucky - but there was nothing heaven sent about the best win in Francesco Fortunato's career.
The Italian grafted from first to last and thoroughly deserved his gold medal in the men&rsquo;s 20km race walk and also led his country to the team title.
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The 28-year-old was fifth in last year&rsquo;s European Athletics Championships in Munich and fifth last time in Podebrady two years ago.
He set his lifetime best of 1:19:43 in the latter of those two championships but it was a 38:56 victory against a world-class field over 10km in Madrid just three weeks ago that filled his cup full of confidence.
Fortunato had to bide his time to pass the early leader and then come again to pass Perseus Karlstrom who was bidding for a record hat-trick of wins.
His eventual winning time of 1:18:59 - a massive improvement as well as a European lead, even allowed him to half stop and gather an Italian flag in the last 50 metres.
Earlier, the hottest time of the day greeted 48 walkers, but with a trademark cap on backwards, sunglasses and nasal strip in place, Olympic champion Massimo Stano set off like he wanted to end this early as a competition.&nbsp;
He stopped the clock for the first kilometre at 3:54 with Fortunato no more than a heartbeat behind. Meanwhile, Gabriel Bordier from France, Karlstrom and nine others were already surging ahead of a strung-out field.
After the five kilometre checkpoint, Stano stopped the clock at 19:34 with Fortunato holding steady three seconds back but two-time champion Karlstrom had gone out to a deficit of 17 seconds.
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However, the chasing Swede could clearly see both leaders and slowly started to close the gap to a more manageable 13 seconds.
At the 10 kilometre mark in 39:27, Fortunato had defiantly drawn abreast of Stano, and the gap to Karlstrom was now only seven seconds.&nbsp;
In fact, by 12km it was a trio contesting which medal they might win, not least because Karlstrom had just reeled off a 3:53 lap to bring himself into title contention once again.&nbsp;
Having set a hot pace from the gun, Stano was the first of the triumvirate to break and by 13 kilometres, he had ceded eight seconds on the duelling duo.
And duel they did. Fortunato pushed on with a 3:56 lap to forge a six-second lead by the 15 kilometre checkpoint in 59:09.&nbsp;
And there would be no change to the medal positions in the last five kilometres. Fortunato glided to the biggest win of his career thus far in 1:18:59 ahead of Karlstrom, the exertions of a hot and humid afternoon writ large across his face for most of the last 10 kilometres, battling to silver in 1:19:27 with an equally tired Stano safe in the bronze medal position in 1:20:07.&nbsp;
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Behind the medallists Alberto Amezcua was fourth in 1:20:24 and Spanish teammate Paul McGrath came home for fifth in 1:21:15, a lifetime best and a European U23 leading time.
At the other end of the age spectrum, Portugal&rsquo;s Jo&atilde;o Vieira deserves special mention for 10th and 1:22:08, barely two minutes shy of a PB set 19 years ago. At age 47, the multi-medallist showed he has plenty yet to offer.
The team race was the closest-run thing of the day. Thanks to Fortunato and Stano, Italy prevailed with 15 points - just a single point ahead of Spain (16), and Germany third with 45.
Full results <a href="https://podebrady23results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Paul Warburton for European Athletics

Ntrismpioti and Fortunato strike for contrasting 20km race walk victories in Podebrady

Maria Perez broke the world record by an impressive 29 seconds to win the 35km race walk title at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady on Sunday (21) morning to provide the second half of a Spanish double in the 35km race walk.
The Spaniard - setting the first ever official world record by a Spanish athlete, subject to ratification - eclipsed the mark set by Peru's Kimberly Garcia in Dudince earlier this season to break the tape in 2:37:15 to become the first Spaniard to break a world record in any athletics discipline since Francisco Fernandez broke the world 10,000m race walk record in 2008.
"It is a nice feeling to finish the race and the time is a big reward for this. I did not think of any time or any special target before the start, I just wanted to finish the best I could. So, the record time was definitely not my goal today. I am happy to do my best and I am glad to see the race walk can be attractive and can attract such great crowds like in Podebrady.
&ldquo;I had a difficult season behind me [she was DQ'd at both the World and European Athletics Championships] and I focused on this competition very seriously. We worked on the technique and I wanted to show that I am really well prepared. The technique was still not the best but I am working on it. It will be even better," said Perez.
Perez strolled home to beat the second-placer by more than eight minutes around the 1km Lazensky Park course and after a swift 9:35 through 2km, she was leading many of the men following a combined start.&nbsp;
By 4km, she was already lapping some of the back markers in the women&rsquo;s field. Chasing the Spaniard - if you could call it that - were her teammates Raquel Gonzalez and Cristina Montesinos and Italy&rsquo;s Federica Curiazzi, who by 6km were 47 seconds down.&nbsp;
A lap later it was 59 seconds and growing to widen just about each of the remaining 28 laps.
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Everyone else was more than two minutes in arrears. Perez reached 10km in 46:17, and 1:31 in front of her two Spanish compatriots, with Curiazzi dropping off the back by seven seconds.
Further back, the pain of a race gone wrong was etched on the face of a tearful Lidia Barcella when the Italian was forced to drop out before 13km. The bronze medallist from the last edition of these championships in 2021 was clearly out-of-sorts as Perez forged on defiantly.
By 19km, the leader had lapped fourth-place Curiazzi. She went through 20km in 1:30:59, good enough for eighth best - 11th if you include Russian race walkers whose athletes remain suspended from international competition - on the 2023 European list.
One kilometre later and she had lapped the entire field.&nbsp;Meanwhile, in the race for second, Gonzalez had opened up an 11-second lead over Montesinos; the latter&rsquo;s face resigned to third at best. 
In the closing lap, Montesinos gave it one spirited last go to close the gap when she finished in 2:45:58 to Gonzalez&rsquo; 2:45:42. For Montesinos, her bronze medal-winning time represented a lifetime best by over four minutes.
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Curiazzi was fourth in another lifetime best of 2:49:39, and fellow Italian Nicole Colombi was fifth in yet another re-write of a personal best in 2:52:13.
It said something about the standards of a fast race that four out of the first five could all boast new times.
The team race was a 1-2-3 perfect score for Spain with Italy and Ukraine taking silver and bronze respectively.
<h2>Martin makes the grade with gold in the 35km&nbsp;</h2>
The men&rsquo;s winner at 35km was no surprise either as Alvaro Martin was head and shoulders over his rivals, leading from gun to tape.
Smooth, imperious, and inscrutable behind his dark sunglasses, the Spaniard set a national record 2:25:58 to eclipse the mark of the man who finished third, Miguel Angel Lopez.
In between the two red vests, Podebrady favourite Christopher Linke claimed silver and a German record of 2:27:05. Lopez might have relinquished his national record but he came away with individual bronze in 2:27:33 and helped the Spaniards to the team title as their second counter.&nbsp;
Long-time second-placer Aur&eacute;lien Quinion was forced to settle for fourth having spent time in the penalty area, a wave of a judge&rsquo;s hand killing his medal prospects.
Martin started like he finished, ticking off laps in a metronomic 4:10 or thereabouts for the one kilometre loop in a pleasant 14 degrees that was to rise to 21 degrees by the finish of the Czech spa town.
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The Spaniard had a lead of 20 metres after just one lap from Quinion, Lopez and Linke, with a string of walkers further back and the entire field strung out over 200 metres.
The lead was a steady 18 seconds by 7km but had already grown by two seconds on the previous circuit.
There was a nice touch between Martin and Maria Perez as they exchanged a joke when he lapped his teammate halfway through his ninth lap.
Maybe they already knew they would be smiling a lot more by the end.
Martin passed through 10km in 41:27, with the lead having extended to another seven seconds.
Just before 12km, Quinion made a concerted effort to close the gap, and forged a nine-second gap back to Lopez and Linke. He improved it over the next 2km to also cut the deficit on Martin.
Even so, the leader went through 20k in a world-class 1:22:56 with Quinion 18 seconds back, and the next two a further 36 seconds down.
The Frenchman was eating into the leader&rsquo;s lead so by 25km it was down to 12 seconds.
But it was all to unravel in a few more minutes when the judges sent Quinion into the penalty area for the regulation 3:30 that effectively ended his quest for the podium.
Meanwhile, the new battle for second was taking shape.
Linke creviced a five-second gap over Lopez - the 2022 European champion at the distance - and improved that slightly to make sure of a second place to add to his 20km gold medal from the 2017 European Race Walking Team Championships which were also held in Podebrady.
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The team prize went to Spain with a pained Marc Tur, who won the last edition of the 50km in 2021, doing his bit to make sure of team gold.&nbsp;
Italy beat Germany to claim silver. The medal colour would have improved by a hue had it not been for a costly time penalty for Nathaniel Seiler in the very late stages.
Full results <a href="https://podebrady23results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
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