Colombia’s world champion Eider Arevalo and Wang Yingliu of China took the men’s and women’s individual victories at the Around Taihu International Race Walking competition, the last leg of the 2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge, which concluded on Wednesday (26) after three days of action in Suzhou, China.

Two-time World and Olympic triple jump champion Catherine Ibarguen and 2017 World 20km race walk champion Eider Arevalo led a winning Wednesday for hosts Colombia on day 4 of the athletics competition at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Game in Barranquilla on Wednesday (2).

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Colombia’s Eider Arevalo and Mexico’s Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez continued their 2017 winning streaks by taking convincing victories at the Pan American Cup, the seventh leg of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge, in Lima on Saturday and Sunday (13-14).

Colombia’s Eider Arevalo regained his title at the Race Walking Grand Prix in Rio Maior, while Peru’s Kimberley Garcia dashed hopes of a Portuguese win in the women’s race at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting on Saturday (1).

Portugal’s Ana Cabecinha and Ines Henriques will be vying for the victory on Saturday (1) at the Rio Maior Race Walking Grand Prix, the fourth leg of the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge.

Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez was a class apart while Colombia’s Eider Arevalo came back on top after his 2014 win to highlight the second leg of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Sunday (12) in Ciudad Juarez, north of Mexico.

Olympic 20km race walk champion Chen Ding will be the star attraction at the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Taicang as he aims to maintain local race walkers’ dominance in the south-east Chinese city on Friday (1).

Warm and windy conditions affected some of the race walkers at the Rio Maior International Race Walking Grand Prix but Liu Hong and Eider Arevalo won with relative ease over 20km at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting on Saturday (18).

Argentine shot putter German Lauro brought his country their second gold medal of the athletics competitions of the 10th edition of the ODESUR Games (South American Games) by winning his specialist event in Santiago de Chile with a Games record 20.70m on Saturday (15).