2015 European Race Walking Cup

The 2015 European Race Walking Cup took place on May 17, 2015. The races were held on a 1 km lap on Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo in Murcia, Spain.^[1] Detailed reports of the event were given for the IAAF^[2] and for the EAA.^[3]

2015 European Race Walking Cup
Organisers	EAA
Edition	11th
Date	May 17
Host city	Murcia, Spain
Venue	Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo
Events	5
Participation	207 athletes from 27 nations
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Complete results were published.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Later, Russian athletes Mikhail Ryzhov (winner of 50 km) and Ivan Noskov (runner-up of 50 km event) were disqualified for doping,^[10] and the medals were redistubuted.^[11]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Men's 20 km	Miguel Ángel López  Spain	1:19:52	Matej Tóth  Slovakia	1:20:21	Yohann Diniz  France	1:20:37
Men's 50 km	Marco De Luca  Italy	3:46:21	Ivan Banzeruk  Ukraine		?
Men's 10 km Junior (U20)	Diego García  Spain	40:38	Jean Blancheteau  France	41:11	Pablo Oliva  Spain	41:19
Women's 20 km	Elmira Alembekova  Russia	1:26:15	Eleonora Giorgi  Italy	1:26:17	Svetlana Vasilyeva  Russia	1:26:31
Women's 10 km Junior (U20)	Klavdiya Afanasyeva  Russia	45:55	Mariya Losinova  Russia	46:11	Mária Pérez  Spain	47:08
Team
Men's 20 km	Germany	32	Russia	35	Ukraine	37
Men's 50 km	Italy		Ukraine		?
Men's 10 km Junior (U20)	Spain	4	France	11	Germany	17
Women's 20 km	Russia	9	Italy	30	Portugal	38
Women's 10 km Junior (U20)	Russia	3	Spain	9	Italy	12

Race results

Men's 20km

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes	Red cards
	Miguel Ángel López	Spain	1:19:52
	Matej Tóth	Slovakia	1:20:21	SB
	Yohann Diniz	France	1:20:37		>>
4	Dzianis Simanovich	Belarus	1:21:11		~
5	Ihor Hlavan	Ukraine	1:21:24	SB
6	Andrey Krivov	Russia	1:22:05
7	Christopher Linke	Germany	1:22:06
8	Perseus Karlström	Sweden	1:22:44	SB
9	Denis Strelkov	Russia	1:22:47		~
10	Ato Ibáñez	Sweden	1:22:48	SB	>
11	Giorgio Rubino	Italy	1:22:55		~
12	Hagen Pohle	Germany	1:23:07
13	Carl Dohmann	Germany	1:23:16
14	Andriy Kovenko	Ukraine	1:23:21	SB
15	Alex Wright	Ireland	1:23:35	SB	~~
16	Tom Bosworth	United Kingdom	1:23:54		~
17	Rafał Augustyn	Poland	1:23:59		>
18	Nazar Kovalenko	Ukraine	1:24:03
19	Erik Tysse	Norway	1:24:34
20	Pyotr Trofimov	Russia	1:25:22
21	Miguel Carvalho	Portugal	1:25:40	PB
22	Luís Alberto Amezcua	Spain	1:25:49
23	Kevin Campion	France	1:25:50	SB
24	Jarkko Kinnunen	Finland	1:26:03	SB
25	Arnis Rumbenieks	Latvia	1:26:32
26	Veli-Matti Partanen	Finland	1:26:40
27	Brendan Boyce	Ireland	1:26:47	SB
28	Anton Kučmín	Slovakia	1:26:53
29	Francesco Fortunato	Italy	1:27:04
30	Aleksi Ojala	Finland	1:27:13
31	Leonardo Dei Tos	Italy	1:27:34
32	Antonin Boyez	France	1:28:15
33	Michele Antonelli	Italy	1:28:17		>
34	Álvaro Martín	Spain	1:28:45
35	Matias Korpela	Finland	1:29:30	PB	>>
36	Rafał Sikora	Poland	1:30:31		>
37	Adrian Dragomir	Romania	1:30:32
38	Dušan Majdán	Slovakia	1:30:32
39	Patrik Spevák	Slovakia	1:31:48
40	Ruslan Dmytrenko	Ukraine	1:32:38
41	José Ignacio Díaz	Spain	1:32:46
42	Sahin Senoduncu	Turkey	1:34:06
43	Bruno Erent	Croatia	1:38:00
44	Lauri Lelumees	Estonia	1:39:11		>
	Dzmitry Dziubin	Belarus	DNF		>~
	Dietmar Hirschmugl	Austria	DNF		>>
	Serkan Dogan	Turkey	DNF		~
	Genadij Kozlovskij	Lithuania	DNF
	Recep Çelik	Turkey	DNF
	Ersin Tacir	Turkey	DNF
	Sérgio Vieira	Portugal	DNF
	João Vieira	Portugal	DNF
	Håvard Haukenes	Norway	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Aleksandr Ivanov	Russia	DQ	R 230.6a	>~~
	Margus Luik	Estonia	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Łukasz Nowak	Poland	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Joakim Sælen	Norway	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Catalin Vasile Suhani	Romania	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>

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Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Germany Christopher Linke 7 Hagen Pohle 12 Carl Dohmann 13	32
	Russia Andrey Krivov 6 Denis Strelkov 9 Pyotr Trofimov 20	35
	Ukraine Ihor Hlavan 5 Andriy Kovenko 14 Nazar Kovalenko 18 (Ruslan Dmytrenko) (40)	37
4	Spain Miguel Ángel López 1 Luís Alberto Amezcua 22 Álvaro Martín 34 (José Ignacio Díaz) (41)	57
5	France Yohann Diniz 3 Kevin Campion 23 Antonin Boyez 32	58
6	Slovakia Matej Tóth 2 Anton Kučmín 28 Dušan Majdán 38 (Patrik Spevák) (39)	68
7	Italy Giorgio Rubino 11 Francesco Fortunato 29 Leonardo Dei Tos 31 (Michele Antonelli) (33)	71
8	Finland Jarkko Kinnunen 24 Veli-Matti Partanen 26 Aleksi Ojala 30 (Matias Korpela) (35)	80

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Men's 50km

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes	Red cards
DSQ	Mikhail Ryzhov	Russia	3:43:32
DSQ	Ivan Noskov	Russia	3:43:57
	Marco De Luca	Italy	3:46:21		~
	Ivan Banzeruk	Ukraine	3:49:02
5	Roman Yevstifeyev	Russia	3:51:00		~
6	Serhiy Budza	Ukraine	3:51:33
7	Aléxandros Papamihaíl	Greece	3:51:38
8	Teodorico Caporaso	Italy	3:51:44	PB
9	Grzegorz Sudoł	Poland	3:51:48
10	Benjamín Sánchez	Spain	3:55:45	PB
11	Marius Cocioran	Romania	3:55:59	PB
12	Federico Tontodonati	Italy	3:56:09
13	Ihor Saharuk	Ukraine	3:57:20
14	Sergey Sharipov	Russia	3:57:40	PB
15	Martin Tistan	Slovakia	4:02:26	PB	>~
16	Luís Manuel Corchete	Spain	4:02:29
17	Lorenzo Dessi	Italy	4:02:45	SB
18	Anders Hansson	Sweden	4:03:20	PB
19	Pavel Schrom	Czech Republic	4:08:05	SB	>~
20	Eemeli Kiiski	Finland	4:08:36		>>
21	Alex Flórez	Switzerland	4:12:11		~~
22	Xavier Le Coz	France	4:30:34
	Oleksiy Kazanin	Ukraine	DNF		~
	Pedro Isidro	Portugal	DNF		~
	Pedro Martins	Portugal	DNF
	Jesús Ángel García	Spain	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Lukáš Gdula	Czech Republic	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Ivan Trotski	Belarus	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>
	Marc Tur	Spain	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>

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Teams

Rank	Team	Points
DSQ	Russia Mikhail Ryzhov 1 Ivan Noskov 2 Roman Yevstifeyev 5 (Sergey Sharipov) (14)	8
	Italy Marco De Luca 3 Teodorico Caporaso 8 Federico Tontodonati 12 (Lorenzo Dessi) (17)	23
	Ukraine Ivan Banzeruk 4 Serhiy Budza 6 Ihor Saharuk 13	23

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Men's 10km Junior (U20)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes	Red cards
	Diego García	Spain	40:38	SB
	Jean Blancheteau	France	41:11	PB	~
	Pablo Oliva	Spain	41:19	PB
4	Miroslav Úradník	Slovakia	41:38	PB
5	Manuel Bermúdez	Spain	41:49	PB	>
6	Vasiliy Mizinov	Russia	41:57		~
7	Karl Junghannß	Germany	42:07	PB	~~
8	Bence Venyercsán	Hungary	42:07	PB
9	Thibaut Hypolite	France	42:10	PB	~~
10	Nathaniel Seiler	Germany	42:12	PB
11	Gregorio Angelini	Italy	42:42	PB
12	Callum Wilkinson	United Kingdom	42:49	PB	~~
13	Axel Mutter	France	42:54	PB
14	Aleksey Shevchuk	Russia	43:15
15	Anatoli Homeleu	Belarus	43:17	PB
16	Gianluca Picchiottino	Italy	43:26	PB
17	Guy Thomas	United Kingdom	43:40	PB	>
18	Eduard Zabuzhenko	Ukraine	43:41	PB
19	Fredrik Vaeng Røtnes	Norway	43:41	PB
20	Miguel Rodrigues	Portugal	43:47	PB
21	Muratcan Karapınar	Turkey	43:57
22	Oleksandr Zholob	Ukraine	43:58	PB
23	Andrei Gafita	Romania	43:59	PB
24	Salih Korkmaz	Turkey	44:08	PB
25	Mustafa Özbek	Turkey	44:18
26	Kacper Kosecki	Poland	44:27	PB
27	Arturs Makars	Latvia	44:45	SB	~
28	Michal Morvay	Slovakia	44:55		>
29	Tomas Pagirys	Lithuania	44:58
30	Andriy Vodvud	Ukraine	45:01	SB
31	Dzmitry Lukyanchuk	Belarus	45:04
32	Pedro Amaral	Portugal	45:07	PB
33	Helder Santos	Portugal	45:15	PB
34	Stefano Chiesa	Italy	45:53		>>
35	Dominik Cerný	Slovakia	46:33
36	Tomas Gdula	Czech Republic	46:59	SB	~
37	Igor Jakovlev	Estonia	53:42
38	Kirill Titov	Estonia	1:01:59
	Heiner Terp	Germany	DNF		~
	Cameron Corbishley	United Kingdom	DQ	R 230.6a	~~~
	Maksim Krasnov	Russia	DQ	R 230.6a	~~~
	Mateusz Nowak	Poland	DQ	R 230.6a	~~>
	Zaharías Tsamoudákis	Greece	DQ	R 230.6a	~~~

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Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Spain Diego García 1 Pablo Oliva 3 (Manuel Bermúdez) (5)	4
	France Jean Blancheteau 2 Thibaut Hypolite 9 (Axel Mutter) (13)	11
	Germany Karl Junghannß 7 Nathaniel Seiler 10	17
4	Russia Vasiliy Mizinov 6 Aleksey Shevchuk 14	20
5	Italy Gregorio Angelini 11 Gianluca Picchiottino 16 (Stefano Chiesa) (34)	27
6	United Kingdom Callum Wilkinson 12 Guy Thomas 17	29
7	Slovakia Miroslav Úradník 4 Michal Morvay 28 (Dominik Cerný) (35)	32
8	Ukraine Eduard Zabuzhenko 18 Oleksandr Zholob 22 (Andriy Vodvud) (30)	40
9	Turkey Muratcan Karapınar 21 Salih Korkmaz 24 (Mustafa Özbek) (25)	45
10	Belarus Anatoli Homeleu 15 Dzmitry Lukyanchuk 31	46
11	Portugal Miguel Rodrigues 20 Pedro Amaral 32 (Helder Santos) (33)	52
12	Estonia Igor Jakovlev 37 Kirill Titov 38	75

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Women's 20km

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes	Red cards
	Elmira Alembekova	Russia	1:26:15	CR	>
	Eleonora Giorgi	Italy	1:26:17	PB	~~
	Svetlana Vasilyeva	Russia	1:26:31
4	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic	1:26:53	PB
5	Marina Pandakova	Russia	1:26:58		~
6	Vera Sokolova	Russia	1:27:08		~~
7	Lyudmyla Olyanovska	Ukraine	1:27:09	PB
8	Elisa Rigaudo	Italy	1:28:01	SB	>
9	Ana Cabecinha	Portugal	1:28:28	SB
10	Laura García-Caro	Spain	1:29:32	PB	~
11	Raquel González	Spain	1:29:34	SB
12	Neringa Aidietytė	Lithuania	1:30:20	SB	>
13	Vera Santos	Portugal	1:30:30
14	Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė	Lithuania	1:30:37	PB
15	Nadiya Borovska	Ukraine	1:30:38	SB	~
16	Inês Henriques	Portugal	1:30:44		~~
17	Inna Kashyna	Ukraine	1:30:52	SB
18	María José Poves	Spain	1:31:16	SB
19	Susana Feitor	Portugal	1:31:58
20	Valentina Trapletti	Italy	1:32:08	PB
21	Emilie Menuet	France	1:32:20	PB	~
22	Paulina Buziak	Poland	1:33:42		>
23	Agnieszka Szwarnóg	Poland	1:33:49
24	Olena Shumkina	Ukraine	1:33:55	SB
25	Daryia Balkunets	Belarus	1:34:23
26	Claudia Ștef	Romania	1:34:31	SB
27	Lucie Pelantová	Czech Republic	1:34:46	SB
28	Antigoni Drisbioti	Greece	1:35:00
29	Corinne Baudoin	France	1:36:08	PB
30	Andreea Arsine	Romania	1:36:11	PB
31	Mária Czaková	Slovakia	1:36:42
32	Agnese Pastare	Latvia	1:37:00	SB	>
33	Laura Polli	Switzerland	1:38:40
34	Inès Pastorino	France	1:39:33
35	Federica Ferraro	Italy	1:39:54		>
36	Monika Horňáková	Slovakia	1:43:33
37	Violaine Averous	France	1:44:04
38	Jo Atkinson	United Kingdom	1:44:28		~>
39	Alexandra Aichimoaei	Romania	1:50:27
	Radosveta Simeonova	Bulgaria	DNF		>>
	Mária Gáliková	Slovakia	DNF
	Agnieszka Dygacz	Poland	DNF
	Mari Olsson	Sweden	DNF
	Kristina Saltanovič	Lithuania	DNF
	Julia Takács	Spain	DQ	R 230.6a	~~~

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Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Russia Elmira Alembekova 1 Svetlana Vasilyeva 3 Marina Pandakova 5 (Vera Sokolova) (6)	9
	Italy Eleonora Giorgi 2 Elisa Rigaudo 8 Valentina Trapletti 20 (Federica Ferraro) (35)	30
	Portugal Ana Cabecinha 9 Vera Santos 13 Inês Henriques 16 (Susana Feitor) (19)	38
4	Ukraine Lyudmyla Olyanovska 7 Nadiya Borovska 15 Inna Kashyna 17 (Olena Shumkina) (24)	39
5	Spain Laura García-Caro 10 Raquel González 11 María José Poves 18	39
6	France Emilie Menuet 21 Corinne Baudoin 29 Inès Pastorino 34 (Violaine Averous) (37)	84
7	Romania Claudia Ștef 26 Andreea Arsine 30 Alexandra Aichimoaei 39	95

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Women's 10km Junior (U20)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes	Red cards
	Klavdiya Afanasyeva	Russia	45:55
	Mariya Losinova	Russia	46:11
	Mária Pérez	Spain	47:08	SB	~
4	Noemi Stella	Italy	47:19
5	Katarzyna Zdzieblo	Poland	47:52
6	Lidia Sánchez-Puebla	Spain	48:01
7	Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė	Lithuania	48:20		~~
8	Eleonora Dominici	Italy	48:46
9	Monika Vaiciukevičiūtė	Lithuania	49:10	SB
10	Irene Vazquez	Spain	49:14
11	Anastasiya Rarouskaya	Belarus	49:29
12	Hanna Suslyk	Ukraine	49:49		~
13	Angelika Augustyn	Poland	49:53	PB
14	Edna Barros	Portugal	49:58
15	Catarina Marques	Portugal	50:01	PB
16	Giada Francesca Ciabini	Italy	50:38	PB
17	Emilia Lehmeyer	Germany	51:01
18	Carmen Bianca Molnar	Romania	52:00		>
19	Yuliya Balkouskaya	Belarus	52:19
20	Axelle Ham	France	52:20
21	Henrika Parviainen	Finland	52:42
22	Annika Brembach	Germany	52:45
23	Ivanna Danylyuk	Ukraine	53:16
24	Emma Achurch	United Kingdom	53:35		>>
25	Teresa Zurek	Germany	53:47
26	Kseniya Byelova	Ukraine	55:17		>
27	Margarita Kozlova	Estonia	1:08:16
	Tereza Korvasová	Czech Republic	DNF		>
	Lika Mitrofanova	Estonia	DNF		>
	Rita Récsei	Hungary	DQ	R 230.6a	~~~
	Olga Shargina	Russia	DQ	R 230.6a	~>>
	Lena Ungerböck	Austria	DQ	R 230.6a	>>>

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Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Russia Klavdiya Afanasyeva 1 Mariya Losinova 2	3
	Spain Mária Pérez 3 Lidia Sánchez-Puebla 6 (Irene Vazquez) (10)	9
	Italy Noemi Stella 4 Eleonora Dominici 8 (Giada Francesca Ciabini) (16)	12
4	Lithuania Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė 7 Monika Vaiciukevičiūtė 9	16
5	Poland Katarzyna Zdzieblo 5 Angelika Augustyn 13	18
6	Portugal Edna Barros 14 Catarina Marques 15	29
7	Belarus Anastasiya Rarouskaya 11 Yuliya Balkouskaya 19	30
8	Ukraine Hanna Suslyk 12 Ivanna Danylyuk 23 (Kseniya Byelova) (26)	35
9	Germany Emilia Lehmeyer 17 Annika Brembach 22 (Teresa Zurek) (25)	39

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Medal table (unofficial)

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	6	3	1	10
2	Spain*	3	1	2	6
3	Germany	1	0	1	2
4	Italy	0	3	2	5
5	France	0	2	1	3
6	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
7	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
8	Portugal	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

• Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 207 athletes from 27 countries participated.

•  Austria (2)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Czech Republic (6)
•  Estonia (6)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (12)
•  Germany (9)
•  Greece (3)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Italy (18)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lithuania (7)
•  Norway (4)
•  Poland (11)
•  Portugal (14)
•  Romania (8)
•  Russia (18)
•  Slovakia (11)
•  Spain (18)
•  Sweden (4)
•   Switzerland (2)
•  Turkey (7)
•  Ukraine (18)
•  United Kingdom (6)

References

1. Team Manual - 11th European Cup Race Walking - 17 May 2015 - Murcia, Spain (PDF), European Athletic Association, 7 May 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
2. Warburton, Paul (17 May 2015), Lopez prevents Russian sweep of titles at European Cup Race Walking in Murcia, IAAF, retrieved 27 May 2015
3. Ryzhov, Alembekova, Garcia, Afanasyeva, Lopez golden at European Cup Race Walking, European Athletic Association, 17 May 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
4. 11th European Cup Race Walking - Murcia ESP 17 May - Race walk, European Athletic Association, 17 May 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
5. European Cup Race Walking 2015 - Murcia/ESP, 17 May 2015 - 20km Men - Final - Results (PDF), Real Federación Española de Atletismo, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
6. European Cup Race Walking 2015 - Murcia/ESP, 17 May 2015 - 50km Men - Final - Results (PDF), Real Federación Española de Atletismo, retrieved 23 May 2015
7. European Cup Race Walking 2015 - Murcia/ESP, 17 May 2015 - 10km Junior Men - Final - Results (PDF), Real Federación Española de Atletismo, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
8. European Cup Race Walking 2015 - Murcia/ESP, 17 May 2015 - 20km Women - Final - Results (PDF), Real Federación Española de Atletismo, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
9. European Cup Race Walking 2015 - Murcia/ESP, 17 May 2015 - 10km Junior Women - Final - Results (PDF), Real Federación Española de Atletismo, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015, retrieved 23 May 2015
10. "Всероссийская федерация легкой атлетики | Признание санкций ИААФ".
11. "Офіційно: Іван Банзерук і команда України – срібні призери Кубка Європи-2015 зі спортивної ходьби | Федерація легкої атлетики України".

External links

• Official website
• 2015 Statistics Handbook

Videos

• Video impression of the Murcia 2015 European Cup Race Walking
• Interview: Miguel Angel Lopez 20km men Race Walking
• Interview: Matej Toth 20km men Race Walking
• Interview: Yohan Diniz 20km men Race Walking
• Interview: Marco de Luca 50km Men Race Walking
• Interview: Eleonora Giorgi 20km Women Race Walking
• Interview: Anezka Drahotova 20km Women Race Walking
• Interview: Diego Garcia 10km Junior Men Race Walking
• Interview: Pablo Oliva 10km Junior Men Race Walking
• Interview: Callum Wilkinson 10km Junior Men Race Walking
• Interview: Maria Perez 10km women junior Race Walking