racewalking
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In her career she set three world records in the beginning of the women's racewalking.

Perhaps that is racewalking's biggest plus: It broadens opportunities for athletes not overly blessed with traditional skills.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association does not allow racewalking to be a scoring event.

But the state meet was my big goal, the one I had dreamed of winning ever since I started racewalking in the ninth grade."

All events were held at the Nagai Stadium, with the exception of the racewalking and half marathon events.

After trying out weightlifting and long-distance running in his youth, he began practising racewalking at the age of seventeen after a knee injury.

My return to racewalking started with a $10, hourlong refresher from Stella Cashman, founder of the Park Racewalkers.

Since 2004, the competition has been part of the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge circuit - the top level meeting series for international racewalking.

The racewalking and marathon events were held on the temporary Guadalajara Circuit and Route and the Pan American Marathon circuit respectively.

This rule, the source of modern racewalking, was a vague commandment that the toe of one foot could not leave the ground before the heel of the next foot touched down.

To the Editor: As someone who racewalks for exercise, I was very interested in "Unloved and Funny-Looking, Racewalking Has a Local Following" (Jan. 28).

While I agree that competitive racewalking is a tough sport to judge and is largely ridiculed by the track and field community, I feel its benefits were not given equal time.

Her career and her life, has inspired a book La marcia infinita di Ileana (The neverending racewalking of Ileana), from Valter Esposito (2006, Il Prato publisher).

Saville announced her retirement from competitive racewalking in February 2009, with her future plans including continued work in community health and fitness promotion, and a role on the IAAF race walking technical committee.

With football, cricket and other sports codified in the 19th century, the transition from professional pedestrianism to amateur codified racewalking was, while relatively late, part of a process of regularisation occurring in most modern sports at this time.

It was only in the unofficial "Interim Olympic Games" of 1906 that racewalking became a separate event and since the 1908 Olympic Games in London, it has been an official event in every summer games.

A one-time fashion model who took up running in her late 20's as a way to keep trim, Sedlak, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 127 pounds, insisted that racewalking is far better exercise than running and offered her figure as proof.

Certainly, there is an incongruity between the Washington, Robert Gates with the studied sense of humor who seems uncomfortable racewalking along the beach at Kennebunkport, Me., with Mr. Bush and the at-home Robert Gates who took his wife and two children to a family reunion in Wyoming this summer.