EMA best masters awards 2018: Category RACE WALKS
Valeria Pedetti won seven medals at European and World Championships. She received EM gold four times (10km road walk, 10km road walk team, 3000m and 5km walk), twice WM silver (5000m, 10km road walk team) and once WM bronze (10km road walk).
Ivan Pushkin won at the European Championships and World Championships in his age group at every competition he competed in. He has been world champion in Malaga three times (5000m walk, 5km road walk, 5000m walk) and three times European champion (3000m track walk, 5km road walk, 10km road walk)
Valeria Pedetti (W40, ITA)
European Champion and Vice World Champion in 2018
10 km road walk (0:52:26) – European Champion in Alicante/ESP
10 km road walk team (W40 ITA: Simona Coccimiglio, Simona Palandri, Simona, Valeria Pedetti) – European Champion in Alicante/ESP
3000m walk (14:58.48) – European Champion in Madrid/ESP
5km road walk (25:19) – European Champion in Madrid/ESP
5000m walk (25:19.63) – Vice World Champion in Málaga/ESP
10 km road walk team (W40 ITA: Tatiana Zucconi, Valeria Pedetti, Simona Palandri) – Vice World Champion in Málaga/ESP
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In the 10 km road walk at the EM in Alicante Valeria Pedetti was fastest of the walkers of all age groups and won by a margin of half a minute. In Malaga (WMAC) she won bronze.
Luca Cassai (ITA): „Despite being in the last season of age group W40, Valeria Pedetti still managed to win medals at the international competitions in 2018. She was a runner in the past, then started race walking seven years ago, always training early in the morning and coached by M80 world record holder Romolo Pelliccia. A passion shared also with her two daughters.“
Ivan Pushkin (M85, UKR)
World and European Champion in 2018
5000m walk (37:02.64) – World Champion in Málaga/ESP
10km road walk (1:18:45) – World Champion in Málaga/ESP
20km road walk (2:43:42) – World Champion in Málaga/ESP
3000m track walk (22:11.24) – European Champion in Madrid/ESP
5km road walk (37:44) – European Champion in Madrid/ESP
10km road walk (01:15:31) – European Champion in Alicante/ESP
Additions
Valentyna Krepkina, Ukraine Athletics Federation: „Ivan Pushkin was the best master athlete in Ukraine during the last three years. He is holder of the world record on distance 10 km Race Walking ( WMA Lyon 2015)“:
M85+ 1:13.52 Ivan Pushkin,UKR 300630 Lyon,FRA 090815 WMA WB
„In 2018 Ivan Pushkin took part in all official WMA and EMA championships, in all Ukrainian Championships and Cups and in two international competitions in Belarus.“
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