# 2011 European Race Walking Cup

The ninth edition of the European Race Walking Cup was held on the roads of Olhão, Portugal on 21 May 2011. The event was jointly organised by the Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo (Portuguese Athletics Federation) and the European Athletics Association. A total of 222 athletes from 26 countries participated in the competition.
Olhão won the nomination as the host city in November 2009, seeing off a rival bid from Spain's Santa Eulària des Riu. Although this was Portugal's first time hosting a racewalking event of this size, it became another high profile athletics competition to be staged in the Algarve region, after the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 2003 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and several editions of the European Champion Clubs Cup. The city itself has, since 2001, played host to the annual Meeting de Marcha Atlética da Cidade de Olhão racewalking meeting, which has featured on the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge series.
As in previous years, the competition featured five races: two 20 km walk competitions for men and women, a 50 km men's walk, and junior walks for men and women of 10 km each. The course was a looped circuit on the roads next to Olhão's marina on the seafront of the Atlantic Ocean. Russia and Italy were the dominant teams at the competition, taking three and two team titles respectively. Italian men took a sweep of the top three in the 20 km race while Russia's junior men completed a 1–2 finish to gain a perfect team score.

## Medallists
### Men

| Race | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Junior men's 10 km | Ihor Lyashchenko (UKR) | 41:26 | Hagen Pohle (GER) | 41:36 | Dementiy Cheparev [Wikidata] (RUS) | 41:58 |
| Junior men's 10 km Team | Ukraine (UKR) | 5 pts | Russia (RUS) | 8 pts | Germany (GER) | 12 pts |
| Senior men's 20 km | Matej Toth (SVK) | 1:23:53 | Jakub Jelonek (POL) | 1:23:59 | Benjamín Sánchez (ESP) | 1:24:12 |
| Senior men's 20 km Team | Spain (ESP) | 26 pts | Italy (ITA) | 27 pts | France (FRA) | 37 pts |
| Senior men's 50 km | Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) | 3:45:58 | Marco De Luca (ITA) | 3:50:13 | Christopher Linke (GER) | 3:52:56 |
| Senior men's 50 km Team | Italy (ITA) | 16 pts | Poland (POL) | 17 pts | Spain (ESP) | 39 pts |

### Women

| Race | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Junior women's 10 km | Yelena Lashmanova (RUS) | 43:10 | Svetlana Vasilyeva (RUS) | 44:02 | Kate Veale (IRL) | 46:32 |
| Junior women's 10 km Team | Russia (RUS) | 3 pts | Italy (ITA) | 9 pts | Czech Republic (CZE) | 19 pts |
| Senior women's 20 km | Vera Sokolova (RUS) | 1:30:02 | Anisya Kirdyapkina (RUS) | 1:30:41 | Elisa Rigaudo (ITA) | 1:30:55 |
| Senior women's 20 km Team | Russia (RUS) | 14 pts | Spain (ESP) | 22 pts | Ukraine (UKR) | 32 pts |

## Results

Complete results were published.

### Men's 20 km

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Matej Tóth | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:23:53 |
| | Jakub Jelonek | Poland (POL) | 1:23:59 |
| | Benjamín Sánchez | Spain (ESP) | 1:24:12 |
| 4 | Giorgio Rubino | Italy (ITA) | 1:24:14 |
| 5 | Vladimir Kanaykin | Russia (RUS) | 1:24:20 |
| 6 | Miguel Ángel López | Spain (ESP) | 1:24:37 |
| 7 | Andrey Krivov | Russia (RUS) | 1:25:14 |
| 8 | Antonin Boyez | France (FRA) | 1:25:21 |
| 9 | Robert Heffernan | Ireland (IRL) | 1:25:34 |
| 10 | Kevin Campion | France (FRA) | 1:25:50 |
| 11 | Matteo Giupponi | Italy (ITA) | 1:26:30 |
| 12 | Federico Tontodonati | Italy (ITA) | 1:26:59 |
| 13 | Nazar Kovalenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:27:03 |
| 14 | Pedro Isidro | Portugal (POR) | 1:27:39 |
| 15 | Antón Kučmín | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:28:14 |
| 16 | Grzegorz Sudoł | Poland (POL) | 1:28:49 |
| 17 | Francisco Arcilla | Spain (ESP) | 1:28:59 |
| 18 | Marius Žiūkas | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:29:16 |
| 19 | Emmanuel Boulay | France (FRA) | 1:29:45 |
| 20 | Rafał Sikora | Poland (POL) | 1:29:52 |
| 21 | Aku Partanen | Finland (FIN) | 1:29:54 |
| 22 | Dawid Wolski | Poland (POL) | 1:30:33 |
| 23 | Alex Wright | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:30:36 |
| 24 | José Ignacio Díaz | Spain (ESP) | 1:31:05 |
| 25 | Bertrand Moulinet | France (FRA) | 1:31:26 |
| 26 | Oleksandr Venhlovskyy | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:31:30 |
| 27 | Brendan Boyce | Ireland (IRL) | 1:32:17 |
| 28 | Heikki Kukkonen | Finland (FIN) | 1:32:29 |
| 29 | Tom Bosworth | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:32:48 |
| 30 | Ruslan Dmytrenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:32:55 |
| 31 | Michael Doyle | Ireland (IRL) | 1:34:24 |
| 32 | Kemal Gelecek | Turkey (TUR) | 1:36:35 |
| 33 | Karel Ketner | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:40:18 |
| 34 | Lauri Lelumees | Estonia (EST) | 1:42:57 |
| — | Andreas Nielsen | Denmark (DEN) | DNF |
| — | Akim Ovsjannikov | Estonia (EST) | DNF |
| — | Ben Wears | Great Britain (GBR) | DNF |
| — | André Höhne | Germany (GER) | DNF |
| — | Carsten Schmidt | Germany (GER) | DNF |
| — | Máté Helebrandt | Hungary (HUN) | DNF |
| — | Daniele Paris | Italy (ITA) | DNF |
| — | João Vieira | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | Sérgio Vieira | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | Perseus Karlström | Sweden (SWE) | DNF |
| — | Recep Çelik | Turkey (TUR) | DNF |
| — | Eemeli Kiiski | Finland (FIN) | DQ |
| — | Dan King | Great Britain (GBR) | DQ |
| — | Tadas Šuškevičius | Lithuania (LTU) | DQ |
| — | Stanislav Yemelyanov | Russia (RUS) | DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping) |
| — | Sergey Morozov | Russia (RUS) | DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping) |

#### Team (20 km Men)

| Place | Country | Points |
| | Spain | 26 pts |
| | Italy | 27 pts |
| | France | 37 pts |
| 4 | Poland | 38 pts |
| 5 | Ireland | 67 pts |
| 6 | Ukraine | 69 pts |

### Men's 50 km

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia (RUS) | 3:45:58 |
| | Marco De Luca | Italy (ITA) | 3:50:13 |
| | Christopher Linke | Germany (GER) | 3:52:56 |
| 4 | Artur Brzozowski | Poland (POL) | 3:53:51 |
| 5 | Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | Italy (ITA) | 3:54:19 |
| 6 | Rafał Augustyn | Poland (POL) | 3:54:38 |
| 7 | Michał Stasiewicz | Poland (POL) | 4:02:51 |
| 8 | Oleksiy Kazanin | Ukraine (UKR) | 4:03:19 |
| 9 | Lorenzo Dessi | Italy (ITA) | 4:04:00 |
| 10 | Teodorico Caporaso | Italy (ITA) | 4:04:12 |
| 11 | Denis Strelkov | Russia (RUS) | 4:04:36 |
| 12 | Luís Manuel Corchete | Spain (ESP) | 4:05:25 |
| 13 | Miguel Ángel Prieto | Spain (ESP) | 4:06:45 |
| 14 | Ferrán Collados | Spain (ESP) | 4:06:57 |
| 15 | Predrag Filipović | Serbia (SRB) | 4:07:54 |
| 16 | Xavier Le Coz | France (FRA) | 4:08:04 |
| 17 | Ivan Losev | Ukraine (UKR) | 4:10:02 |
| 18 | Augusto Cardoso | Portugal (POR) | 4:10:03 |
| 19 | Ato Ibáñez | Sweden (SWE) | 4:10:54 |
| 20 | Dzianis Krauchuk | Belarus (BLR) | 4:13:31 |
| 21 | Claudio Villanueva | Spain (ESP) | 4:14:27 |
| 22 | Dušan Majdán | Slovakia (SVK) | 4:15:10 |
| 23 | Serhiy Budza | Ukraine (UKR) | 4:16:26 |
| 24 | Dominic King | Great Britain (GBR) | 4:18:56 |
| 25 | Jorge Costa | Portugal (POR) | 4:25:04 |
| 26 | Sándor Rácz | Hungary (HUN) | 4:28:09 |
| 27 | Róbert Tubak | Hungary (HUN) | 4:33:47 |
| 28 | Margus Luik | Estonia (EST) | 4:34:11 |
| — | Dzmitry Dziubin | Belarus (BLR) | DNF |
| — | Andrei Talashka | Belarus (BLR) | DNF |
| — | Ivan Trotski | Belarus (BLR) | DNF |
| — | Antti Kempas | Finland (FIN) | DNF |
| — | Hervé Davaux | France (FRA) | DNF |
| — | Colin Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | DNF |
| — | Vjaceslavs Grigorjevs | Latvia (LAT) | DNF |
| — | Arnis Rumbenieks | Latvia (LAT) | DNF |
| — | Trond Nymark | Norway (NOR) | DNF |
| — | Pedro Martins | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | António Pereira | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | Andrey Ruzavin | Russia (RUS) | DNF |
| — | Vladimir Savanović | Serbia (SRB) | DNF |
| — | Alex Flórez | Switzerland (SUI) | DNF |
| — | Miloš Bátovský | Slovakia (SVK) | DNF |
| — | Maksym Kovalenko | Ukraine (UKR) | DNF |
| — | Janis Strautinš | Latvia (LAT) | DQ |
| — | Nenad Filipović | Serbia (SRB) | DQ |
| — | Andreas Gustafsson | Sweden (SWE) | DQ |
| — | Igor Yerokhin | Russia (RUS) | DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping) |

#### Team (50 km Men)

| Place | Country | Points |
| | Italy | 16 pts |
| | Poland | 17 pts |
| | Spain | 39 pts |
| 4 | Ukraine | 48 pts |

### Men's 10 km (Junior)

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Ihor Lyashchenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 41:26 |
| | Hagen Pohle | Germany (GER) | 41:36 |
| | Dementiy Cheparev [Wikidata] | Russia (RUS) | 41:58 |
| 4 | Oleksandr Verbytskyy | Ukraine (UKR) | 42:09 |
| 5 | Pavel Parshin | Russia (RUS) | 42:16 |
| 6 | Alvaro Martin | Spain (ESP) | 42:17 |
| 7 | Luís Alberto Amezcua | Spain (ESP) | 43:10 |
| 8 | Leonardo Dei Tos | Italy (ITA) | 43:21 |
| 9 | Patrik Spevák | Slovakia (SVK) | 43:41 |
| 10 | Marcel Lehmberg | Germany (GER) | 43:48 |
| 11 | Dimitri Malosse | France (FRA) | 43:52 |
| 12 | Aleksi Ojala | Finland (FIN) | 44:00 |
| 13 | Nicolas Gosselin | France (FRA) | 44:03 |
| 14 | Massimo Stano | Italy (ITA) | 44:35 |
| 15 | Ihor Puzanov | Ukraine (UKR) | 44:48 |
| 16 | Juan Antonio Raya | Spain (ESP) | 44:49 |
| 17 | Sahin Senoduncu | Turkey (TUR) | 45:14 |
| 18 | Viktor Márkus | Hungary (HUN) | 45:43 |
| 19 | Samuel Pereira | Portugal (POR) | 45:46 |
| 20 | Miklós Srp | Hungary (HUN) | 45:51 |
| 21 | Marcel Faber | Slovakia (SVK) | 46:06 |
| 22 | Bruno Pedro | Portugal (POR) | 46:19 |
| 23 | Leonardo Serra | Italy (ITA) | 46:44 |
| 24 | Edgars Gjačs | Latvia (LAT) | 46:55 |
| 25 | Anders Hansson | Sweden (SWE) | 46:56 |
| 26 | Adrian Dragomir | Romania (ROU) | 47:00 |
| 27 | Evan Lynch | Ireland (IRL) | 47:08 |
| 28 | Valters Gerinš | Latvia (LAT) | 47:21 |
| 29 | Romain Denimal | France (FRA) | 47:26 |
| 30 | Jamie Higgins | Great Britain (GBR) | 47:28 |
| 31 | Andrzej Łobaczewski | Poland (POL) | 47:47 |
| 32 | Peter Tichý | Slovakia (SVK) | 47:57 |
| 33 | Jakub Herba | Poland (POL) | 48:42 |
| 34 | Łukasz Kostka | Poland (POL) | 49:04 |
| 35 | Ozgur Ozan Pamuk | Turkey (TUR) | 49:12 |
| — | Damir Baybikov | Russia (RUS) | DQ |

#### Team (10 km Junior Men)

| Place | Country | Points |
| | Ukraine | 5 pts |
| | Russia | 8 pts |
| | Germany | 12 pts |
| 4 | Spain | 13 pts |
| 5 | Italy | 22 pts |
| 6 | France | 24 pts |
| 7 | Slovakia | 30 pts |
| 8 | Hungary | 38 pts |
| 9 | Portugal | 41 pts |
| 10 | Turkey | 52 pts |
| 11 | Latvia | 52 pts |
| 12 | Poland | 64 pts |

### Women's 20 km

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Vera Sokolova | Russia (RUS) | 1:30:02 |
| | Anisya Kirdyapkina | Russia (RUS) | 1:30:41 |
| | Elisa Rigaudo | Italy (ITA) | 1:30:55 |
| 4 | María Vasco | Spain (ESP) | 1:31:41 |
| 5 | Olha Yakovenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:32:08 |
| 6 | Melanie Seeger | Germany (GER) | 1:32:14 |
| 7 | Nadiya Borovska | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:32:30 |
| 8 | María José Poves | Spain (ESP) | 1:32:36 |
| 9 | Susana Feitor | Portugal (POR) | 1:32:43 |
| 10 | Julia Takács | Spain (ESP) | 1:33:09 |
| 11 | Anna Lukyanova | Russia (RUS) | 1:33:27 |
| 12 | Johanna Jackson | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:33:53 |
| 13 | Inês Henriques | Portugal (POR) | 1:34:11 |
| 14 | Zuzana Schindlerová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:34:15 |
| 15 | Ana Cabecinha | Portugal (POR) | 1:34:31 |
| 16 | Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:34:35 |
| 17 | Nastassia Yatsevich | Belarus (BLR) | 1:35:21 |
| 18 | Marie Polli | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:35:37 |
| 19 | Federica Ferraro | Italy (ITA) | 1:35:48 |
| 20 | Olena Shumkina | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:36:20 |
| 21 | Laura Reynolds | Ireland (IRL) | 1:36:31 |
| 22 | Tatyana Korotkova | Russia (RUS) | 1:36:43 |
| 23 | Neringa Aidietytė | Lithuania (LTU) | 1:36:55 |
| 24 | Ana Maria Groza | Romania (ROU) | 1:37:18 |
| 25 | Katarzyna Kwoka | Poland (POL) | 1:37:23 |
| 26 | Lucie Pelantová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1:37:37 |
| 27 | Karoliina Kaasalainen | Finland (FIN) | 1:38:21 |
| 28 | Eleonora Giorgi | Italy (ITA) | 1:38:29 |
| 29 | Emilie Menuet | France (FRA) | 1:38:33 |
| 30 | Antonella Palmisano | Italy (ITA) | 1:39:00 |
| 31 | Agnieszka Dygacz | Poland (POL) | 1:39:16 |
| 32 | Agnieszka Szwarnóg | Poland (POL) | 1:39:45 |
| 33 | Hanna Drabenia | Belarus (BLR) | 1:39:53 |
| 34 | Laura Polli | Switzerland (SUI) | 1:40:01 |
| 35 | Mari Olsson | Sweden (SWE) | 1:40:20 |
| 36 | Anita Kažemāka | Latvia (LAT) | 1:40:57 |
| 37 | Edina Füsti | Hungary (HUN) | 1:41:00 |
| 38 | Anne Halkivaha | Finland (FIN) | 1:41:01 |
| 39 | Olena Shevchuk | Ukraine (UKR) | 1:42:07 |
| 40 | Paulina Buziak | Poland (POL) | 1:42:19 |
| 41 | Mária Czaková | Slovakia (SVK) | 1:44:22 |
| 42 | Viktória Madarász | Hungary (HUN) | 1:45:02 |
| 43 | Eszter Gerendási | Hungary (HUN) | 1:47:27 |
| 44 | Lisa Kehler | Great Britain (GBR) | 1:47:58 |
| 45 | Anita Cuhnova | Latvia (LAT) | 1:55:39 |
| 46 | Karolína Škrášková | Czech Republic (CZE) | 2:02:19 |
| — | Lorena Luaces | Spain (ESP) | DQ |
| — | Olive Loughnane | Ireland (IRL) | DQ |
| — | Claudia Ștef | Romania (ROU) | DQ |
| — | Alina Matveyuk | Belarus (BLR) | DNF |
| — | Agnese Pastare | Latvia (LAT) | DNF |
| — | Sonata Milušauskaitė | Lithuania (LTU) | DNF |
| — | Kristina Saltanovič | Lithuania (LTU) | DNF |
| — | Vera Santos | Portugal (POR) | DNF |
| — | Ana Veronica Rodean | Romania (ROU) | DNF |

#### Team (20 km Women)

| Place | Country | Points |
| | Russia | 14 pts |
| | Spain | 22 pts |
| | Ukraine | 32 pts |
| 4 | Portugal | 37 pts |
| 5 | Italy | 50 pts |
| 6 | Czech Republic | 86 pts |
| 7 | Poland | 88 pts |
| 8 | Hungary | 122 pts |

### Women's 10 km Junior

| Place | Athlete | Nation | Time |
| | Yelena Lashmanova | Russia (RUS) | 43:10 |
| | Svetlana Vasilyeva | Russia (RUS) | 44:02 |
| | Kate Veale | Ireland (IRL) | 46:32 |
| 4 | Anna Clemente | Italy (ITA) | 49:08 |
| 5 | Federica Curiazzi | Italy (ITA) | 49:14 |
| 6 | Tuğçe Güneş | Turkey (TUR) | 49:16 |
| 7 | Anežka Drahotová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 49:36 |
| 8 | Olga Dubrovina | Russia (RUS) | 49:36 |
| 9 | Paula Martínez | Spain (ESP) | 49:51 |
| 10 | Halyna Yakovchuk | Ukraine (UKR) | 50:01 |
| 11 | Charlyne Czychy | Germany (GER) | 50:39 |
| 12 | Eliška Drahotová | Czech Republic (CZE) | 50:58 |
| 13 | Diana Kačanova | Lithuania (LTU) | 51:06 |
| 14 | Gamze Özgür | Turkey (TUR) | 51:14 |
| 15 | Sara Loparco | Italy (ITA) | 51:19 |
| 16 | Amandine Marcou | France (FRA) | 51:27 |
| 17 | Inès Pastorino | France (FRA) | 51:44 |
| 18 | Coralie Mellado | France (FRA) | 51:48 |
| 19 | Natalia Plomińska | Poland (POL) | 52:08 |
| 20 | Maeve Curley | Ireland (IRL) | 52:37 |
| 21 | Sandra Troyano | Spain (ESP) | 52:37 |
| 22 | Heather Lewis | Great Britain (GBR) | 52:56 |
| 23 | Amanda Cano | Spain (ESP) | 53:06 |
| 24 | Emma Prendiville | Ireland (IRL) | 54:15 |
| 25 | Lauren Whelan | Great Britain (GBR) | 54:20 |
| 26 | Erika Parviainen | Finland (FIN) | 54:31 |
| 27 | Tetyana Davydenko | Ukraine (UKR) | 55:22 |
| 28 | Sandra Monteiro | Portugal (POR) | 56:42 |
| — | Lyudmyla Olyanovska | Ukraine (UKR) | DNF |

#### Team (10 km Junior Women)

| Place | Country | Points |
| | Russia | 3 pts |
| | Italy | 9 pts |
| | Czech Republic | 19 pts |
| 4 | Turkey | 20 pts |
| 5 | Ireland | 23 pts |
| 6 | Spain | 30 pts |
| 7 | France | 33 pts |
| 8 | Ukraine | 37 pts |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 47 pts |

## Participation

The participation of 218 athletes (134 men/84 women) from 25 countries is reported.
* Belarus (7)
* Czech Republic (6)
* Denmark (1)
* Estonia (3)
* Finland (8)
* France (13)
* Germany (7)
* Hungary (8)
* Ireland (10)
* Italy (18)
* Latvia (8)
* Lithuania (7)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (15)
* Portugal (14)
* Romania (4)
* Russia (18)
* Serbia (3)
* Slovakia (8)
* Spain (18)
* Sweden (5)
* Switzerland (3)
* Turkey (7)
* Ukraine (17)
* United Kingdom (10)