Long Island has an
active program which has produced some of the country's finest
race walkers, including many Olympians, dating back to the
1960s. 2004 Olympic Team members Tim Seaman, Teresa Vaill and
Curt Clausen compete for USATF-LI registered clubs and Dave
McGovern and Gary Westerfield are world-renowned coaches and
authors. The professionally designed course at the Dennison
Building office complex in Hauppauge is the site of weekly
workouts as well as National and International Championships.
Walk-USA hosts group workouts (open to all) the second and
fourth Mondays at Hauppauge HS 6:00 PM. Contact
Gary Westerfield
for details.
Dave and Loretta McGovern conduct (free) weekly group workouts
in Locust Valley on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm.
Most USATF-LI track and field meets and sanctioned road races
contain race walks or race walk divisions. Please consult the USATF-LI
race calendar for upcoming events.
For information on other Long Island Racewalking opportunities,
contact USATF-LI Racewalk Chair
Dave McGovern
Information about Summer Camp and
workshop for
Race Walk.
It has
been a busy summer 2011 for Long Island race walkers. Jennifer
Halloran of Bay Shore won the girls High School National 1-Mile
walk title in 7:36.05 with Annica Penn of Westhampton Beach 5th
in 7:54.83.
In open
competition, Walk-USA’s Maria Michta won her 2nd consecutive US
National 20K Championship title in Eugene, OR in 1:34:51, a time
fast enough to put her on Team USA for the IAAF World
Championships in Daegu, Korea. Long Island native, Tim Seaman,
was 4th in the men’s 20k (1:31:28), while Walk-USA’s Molly
Josephs placed 5th in the Junior 10,000m in 55:44,
Katie Michta was 8th in 57:56,
and Kelly Maranchuck was 9th in 58:56. Katie also placed 2nd at
Junior Olympics 3,000m race walk in 16:49.19.
Elton
Richardson (W70) led World Class Racewalking’s competitors at
the World Masters Championships in Sacramento with two
individual golds and a silver, as well as a team gold medal in
the 20k. Elton set single-age world bests in the 5,000m
(31:53.61), 10k (1:04:04) and 20k (2:15:42) race walks.
Additionally, Chris Schmid (M60) placed 4th in both the 5,000m
(25:47) and 10k (52:32); Vicki Pritchard (W50) placed 7th in the
5,000m (30:17), 8th in the 10k (1:02:03) and 5th in the 20k
(2:14:51); Diane Brandt (W60) was 7th in the 10k (1:06:38) and
5th in the 20k (2:15:53); Steve Pecinovsky placed 8th in the
5,000m (27:16), 10th in the 10k (57:37) and 7th in the 20k
(1:58:35); and Lauri Berger (W45) placed 10th in the 5,000m in
34:12. Congratulations to Long Island’s champion race walkers!
Long Island walking clubs:
To view results,
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Please check the USATF-LI calendar
for all upcoming events.
