Sunday 25 August 2024 last international commitment of Edward Alfieri in Gothenburg at the 25th edition of the World Masters Athletics Championships. The standard-bearer of the ASD Centro Sportivo Giovanile Catanzaro Lido and leading man of the Italian national team in the Master 65 category will try to obtain the best result in the 20 km road walk race, already holder of the double title at the World Championships in Tampere two years ago.-
The very small route of 500 mt. A/R and then a circuit of 1000 mt. per lap is the same as the 10 km road walking championship. Up for grabs are two world titles, one individual and one team. For the occasion, the teammates of the national team Gabriele Caldarelli and Franco Venturi Degli Esposti are returning. The President and Coach of Alfieri prof. Holy Mineo he tells us that Alfieri is calm, they have agreed on the tactics to be implemented even if the athlete will have to complete 20 complete laps of this mini circuit of the SLOTTSKOGEN CITY PARK adjacent to it ULLEVI STADIUM. Despite the rain, last recovery training today and then tomorrow eve of the race a relaxing moment. He will have an important task to win the double individual and team title. On Sunday between clouds and rain, the race, starting at 12.00, will be very hard fought even if Alfieri boasts a time of 1 hour 47 minutes and 45 seconds achieved two years ago in Finland. His fearsome opponents will be the French Marc Haumesser, the Costa Rican athlete Raul Lopez Guilles and the usual two, the Spanish Pedro Jose Aranda Fernandez and the Polish Leszek Behounek. But the various national teams will also have to pay attention to the accreditation times of the other two Italians who could compete, at least someone, for the world podium together with Alfieri. Twenty athletes representing 15 nations for the last take of these world championships. Our athlete will give his best to improve the 2024 palmares. Next to him will take the field, symbolically, but with heart, the Calabrian FIDAL with its President prof. at the head. Vincent CAIRAa technician and a great innovator and a man of the great growth of Calabrese athletics in these two years of Presidency of the Calabrese Regional Committee.