Ecuador dominate test event of race walking three athletes on the podium
The race 50km race walking 50km will have the Olympic Games (Photo: Alexandre Vidal / Rio2016)
30 degrees at the start, even at 6:30 am, only seven of the 18 athletes registered for the 50km of Brazil march Cup, worth as South American Championship, finished the race disputed in the Pontal beach, in Rio de Janeiro. And even the Ecuadorians, traditional marchers and accustomed to the heat, did not expect much, as stated by the winner Claudio Villanueva Flores, who made the 4h23min37 brand. For Rio 2016, which dealt with the competition as a test event for the Olympic Games, floor and route were approved, as well as timing technology - the main points for consideration.
For athletes, in general, the new asphalt floor recapeado and the circuit, flat and with just two curves in the loop two kilometers, is excellent because it enables a rapid test. The heat was crucial to the dropouts. As summed up Flowers champion: "The floor is fine; the temperature is that it is too ".
Claudio Flores (right) was the winner of the 50km and suffered much from the heat (Photo: Alexandre Vidal / 2016)
In second and third places came Rolando Saquipay with 4h34min09 and Jonnathan Caceres Cabrera, with 4h46min21, both of Ecuador as well. The only Brazilian who followed the race, Samir Sabadin, passed out at kilometer 41, went to the ambulance, tried to come back but could not.
For the Olympic Games, when the march will take proof of 20km on August 12 and 50km on the 19th, the forecast is for milder temperatures. - Will be winter in Rio Still, the start of the 50km is confirmed for 8:30 am to the 20km to 14:30, according to Luis Saladie, the chief coach of the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations).
The test event was approved Salad, who commented: "From the organization, we will have to make some adjustments, but all within the normal. It is for that test event. In the Olympic Games, the infrastructure will have to be higher because we have TV. And the movement will also be more restricted. "
The Spaniard, who will be the arbiter-general in 2016, praised the floor. "It was very good. The works ended and was perfect. The circuit must be a little wider, of course, because here we had less than 20 competitors. The Games will be 60 and is more complicated. Now the landscape is beautiful. For me, he is the most beautiful Olympic march from I attend the Games, starting with Barcelona 1992, "said Saladie.
The beauty of the course in the Pontal was highly praised by the delegate of the International Federation (Photo: Alex Ferro / 2016)
Athletics manager of Rio 2016, Martin Noble said the "hole" that an athlete said on Saturday was out of the track and was only noticed that she had made a more open curve - but still the stretch will be leveled.
"What we set out to do, was a success. The route, which had been approved by the IAAF, had to pass a test and the most important is that it was also approved by the athletes, who considered excellent and fast. We had great results now because of the heat. Who completed the race has had a victory. And the part of the technology with electronic devices for timing, everything worked perfectly, "said Noble.
What goes through your head?
On the way to the beach, Nelson Aguilar, the daughter Melissa, nine, stopped to watch the competition, as several other curious. He noted: "They should really work the mind, to go on and on .... It can not be anxious, right? And should spend much on my mind, as if in a particular couch. Where will that take inspiration to get started in a sport like this? Be first, second, third is something else. Because victorious already are. In fact, they are heroes. "
The Brazilian Claudio dos Santos, of Currais Novos (RN), who stopped at km 22, says, "We think at all, even in stop, to continue is so much depending on how you are, you can even want to... cry. it hurts the whole body, especially in this area (shows the region from side to side of the stomach). "
The Brazilian Claudio dos Santos says that the whole body aches during the race (Photo: Alex Ferro / 2016)
The winner, Ecuador Flores, who like most of the country marchers trains in Cuenca, 2,500m altitude, says that during the 50km race thinks the fam [ilia. "I review time with my mother, my wife, my son, too Claudio, who is ten months. They motivate me, make me go forward. "
Caio Bonfim, who attended the race of 20km and was watching the of 50km, waging a mental struggle with himself: "a lot of concentration on the move is necessary, but sometimes it seems that will not give, we get on automatic. Then you are here: today I'm going to win me; today I will complete. At the end of the test, the mental fatigue is so great that we no longer want to remember how it was. "
Olympic indices
Several Brazilian marchers will Dudince, Slovakia, to try to Olympic levels, or improve your brand on 19 March. José Mário dos Santos Junior and Caio Bonfim are the ones who already have the 4:06 a.m. index required. Claudio dos Santos has yet to do. But no chance until May 8, in the World Cup for Teams of March, in Rome, to index, and will the 2016 Games the three with the best brands there.
Caio Bonfim - who was sixth in the 20km World Beijing 2015 - says that in addition to high temperature, high humidity also helps to make life difficult for the marchers. So the boy Brasilia, training more with low humidity, are thinking of making the two races in Rio and get at least one month before the Olympic Games. For acclimatization of the body, but also the psychological part. "In the 50km, with dry weather, you` grelha`; with moisture, you cook. It's very painful, "says Bonfim.
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