Yohann Diniz has had a year to remember and now he will look to regain another title when he leads the French bid for gold at the European Cup Race Walking in Murcia on 17 May.
Diniz has been confirmed in the France team for the event in Spain where he will compete in the 20km race, with Antonin Boyez and Kevin Campion making up their squad over that distance.
Back in Royal Leamington Spa in 2007, Diniz, now 37, won this title in 1:18:58, before taking the 50km crown in 3:41:07 in Dudince two years ago.
And he has been on quite a roll since last summer’s European Athletics Championships where he broke the world record when he won the 50km in 3:32:33.
In March, he added the 20km world record to his list as he triumphed in Arles in 1:17:02, only for China’s Yusuke Suzuki to beat the time with 1:16:36 a week later.
Yet Diniz is determined to make 2015 as successful as 2014 where he won his third European Athletics gold.
He will go to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing in August aiming to race at both distances and Murcia will give him the chance to send out an impressive warning.
France have entered only one walker in the 50km in Xavier Le Coz.
The women’s 20km team is Violaine Averous, Corinne Baudoin, Emilie Menuet and Ines Pastorino, their boys’ 10km team is Jean Blancheteau, Thibault Hypolite, Axel Mutter while Axelle Ham will compete in the girls’ 10km.