Race walkers must keep one foot on the ground at all times.

As luck would have it, it was a coach of race walkers.

The race walkers were part of a track team representing Suffolk County high school girls.

Twenty-three race walkers from 13 nations competed.

Even race walkers are listed.

He inspired other Mexican race walkers who won Gold medals in future Olympics.

"Female race walkers aren't even in the Olympics yet," Miss Weik said.

The field also includes about 50 race walkers and members of the Achilles Track Club, whose members are disabled.

St. Moritz is extremely popular in the summer months as an altitude training base for distance athletes, particularly cyclists, runners, and race walkers.

Sponsored by the Park Race Walkers Club.

In 2013, some non-CADICA race walkers were invited to start out of competition.

Race walkers use a somewhat similar motion for a different purpose, making much greater use of hip motion to gain astonishing speed at a walking pace.

There are gaggles of joggers (some guiding high-speed baby buggies, some with trotting dogs on long leashes), race walkers and casual strollers.

Former champion race walkers Maurizio and Giorgio trained for Olympic Games and other championships on the roads around Saluzzo.

But Samolenko had other things on her mind in the aftermath of the Olympics, specifically Viktor Dorovskivich, a noted Soviet coach of race walkers.

Race walkers Denis Nizhegorodov and Aleksey Voyevodin (from neighbour Penza) won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

A test of athletes who worked out at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs found that only distance runners and race walkers were in better aerobic condition than the table-tennis players.

Chuvashia, along with Mordovia, has given some of the best modern race walkers, as Vera Sokolova, Olimpiada Ivanova, Yelena Nikolayeva and Vladimir Andreyev.

You don't have to adopt the unusual exaggerated gait of race walkers, whose hips swagger oddly as they vigorously pump their arms and take long strides with one foot placed directly in front of the other.

Peter Frenkel (born 13 May 1939 in Eckartsberga) is an East German athlete who was one of the best 20 km race walkers in the world in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Other athletes such as decathlete Benjamin Jensen, race walkers Kjersti Plätzer and Erik Tysse, and Mona Holm, Norwegian record holder in the women's hammer throw, has later joined Norna-Salhus.

Warm up with coffee and hot chocolate at the nearby Boathouse Cafe, beside the Lake in Central Park, an informal gathering place for other ice skaters, cyclists, runners, race walkers, roller skaters and even winter bird watchers.

Other race walkers from Mordovia include: Elena Lashmanova, Olena Shumkina, Irina Stankina, Sergey Bakulin, Stanislav Emelyanov, Vladimir Kanaykin, Sergey Kirdyapkin (married to Anisya), Sergey Morozov and Roman Rasskazov.

Reaching the 8 km lap, Kuvatov's strong lead came to an end, as he was passed by several race walkers including Ivano Brugnetti of Italy, and Francisco Javier Fernández of Spain, both of whom won gold and silver in the previous Olympics.