On Saturday, Alytus hosted the participants of the international sports walking festival for the 52nd time. The festival program included silver level competitions of the WA sports walking tour, Lithuanian and Latvian side marathon sports walking championships, and Lithuanian sports walking cup competitions.
The half marathon distance was contested for the first time in Lithuania.
Men. 1.Mykola Rushchak (UKR) 1:26:16, 2.Serhii Svitlychnyi (UKR) 1:28:46, 3.Eduard Muravskyi (UKR) 1:34:47. Lithuanian Championship: 1.Lukas Lasevičius (Švenčionys) 1:45:13, 2. Tauras-Jokūbas Grincevičius (Švenčionys) 1:46:18, 3. Darius Jazepčikas (Kaunas) 1:47:01.
Women. 1.Liudmyla Olianovska (UKR) 1:34:18, 2.Mayara Luize Vicentaine (BRA) 1:40:37, 3. Austėja Kavaliauskaitė 1:42:27. Lithuanian Championship: 1.Austėja Kavaliauskaitė (Švenčionys/Kėdainiai) 1:42:27, 2. Nadezhda Novikova (Šiauliai/Klaipėda) 2:04:40.
Winners of other distances:
Youth. 5 km. Ilya Tyshkevich (UKR) 22:23 and Daryna Yushchenko (UKR) 25:30
Juniors. 5 km. Vitalii Tarasiuk (UKR) 22:23 and Justė Andrijauskaitė (Šiauliai) 24:11
Juniors. 3 km. Pijus Šmitas (Kėdainiai) 15:45 and Róza Murawska (POL) 15:57
Children (2013-14). 1 km. Ovidijus Civilka (Kėdainiai) 4; 34 and Milda Kisieliūtė (Kaunas) 4:55
Children (2015 and younger). 1 km. Deividas Žvirblis (Vilnius district) 5:45 and Sabina Jakubėnaitė (Švenčionys) 5; 15
Masters. 3 km. Piergiorgio Andreotti (ITA) 29:46 and Vita Ormane (LAT) 17;31.
Masters. 5 km. Alexandre Kazaryan (USA) 34:06
Children’s mixed relay 4×0.5 km. Kaunas 10:00.
The Lithuanian Athletic Walking Cup was won by Kaunas team (253), second place – Švenčionys (230), third place – Kėdainiai (197).