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.Warbuton, Paul (2011-05-22). Nizhegorodov dominates, defends European Cup Walk title in Olhão. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-30. A total of 222 athletes from 26 countries participated in the competition.Final entries confirmed for Olhão 2011 . European Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.

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.European Cup Race Walking 2011 awarded to Portuguese city of Olhão . European Athletics (2009-11-11). Retrieved on 2011-05-30. 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.Fernandes, Antonio, Manuel (2010-02-21). Santos beats the conditions in Olhão – IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.

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.Course Map . Olhao2011. Retrieved on 2011-05-30. 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.2011 European Race Walking Cup. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.

Medallists

Men Junior men's 10 km 41:26 41:36 41:58Junior men's 10 kmTeam 5 pts 8 pts 12 ptsSenior men's 20 km 1:23:53 1:23:59 1:24:12Senior men's 20 kmTeam 26 pts 27 pts 37 ptsSenior men's 50 km 3:45:58 3:50:13 3:52:56Senior men's 50 kmTeam 16 pts 17 pts 39 pts

Women Junior women's 10 km 43:10 44:02 46:32Junior women's 10 kmTeam 3 pts 9 pts 19 ptsSenior women's 20 km 1:30:02 1:30:41 1:30:55Senior women's 20 kmTeam 14 pts 22 pts 32 pts

Results Complete results were published.

Men's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Matej Tóth 1:23:53 Jakub Jelonek 1:23:59 Benjamín Sánchez 1:24:12 4 Giorgio Rubino 1:24:14 5 Vladimir Kanaykin 1:24:20 6 Miguel Ángel López 1:24:37 7 Andrey Krivov 1:25:14 8 Antonin Boyez 1:25:21 9 Robert Heffernan 1:25:34 10 Kevin Campion 1:25:50 11 Matteo Giupponi 1:26:30 12 Federico Tontodonati 1:26:59 13 Nazar Kovalenko 1:27:03 14 Pedro Isidro 1:27:39 15 Antón Kučmín 1:28:14 16 Grzegorz Sudoł 1:28:49 17 Francisco Arcilla 1:28:59 18 Marius Žiūkas 1:29:16 19 Emmanuel Boulay 1:29:45 20 Rafał Sikora 1:29:52 21 Aku Partanen 1:29:54 22 Dawid Wolski 1:30:33 23 Alex Wright 1:30:36 24 José Ignacio Díaz 1:31:05 25 Bertrand Moulinet 1:31:26 26 Oleksandr Venhlovskyy 1:31:30 27 Brendan Boyce 1:32:17 28 Heikki Kukkonen 1:32:29 29 Tom Bosworth 1:32:48 30 Ruslan Dmytrenko 1:32:55 31 Michael Doyle 1:34:24 32 Kemal Gelecek 1:36:35 33 Karel Ketner 1:40:18 34 Lauri Lelumees 1:42:57 — Andreas Nielsen DNF — Akim Ovsjannikov DNF — Ben Wears DNF — André Höhne DNF — Carsten Schmidt DNF — Máté Helebrandt DNF — Daniele Paris DNF — João Vieira DNF — Sérgio Vieira DNF — Perseus Karlström DNF — Recep Çelik DNF — Eemeli Kiiski DQ — Dan King DQ — Tadas Šuškevičius DQ — Stanislav Yemelyanov DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping) — Sergey Morozov DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping)

Team (20 km Men) Place Country Points 26 pts 27 pts 37 pts 4 38 pts 5 67 pts 6 69 pts

Men's 50 km Place Athlete Nation Time Denis Nizhegorodov 3:45:58 Marco De Luca 3:50:13 Christopher Linke 3:52:56 4 Artur Brzozowski 3:53:51 5 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi 3:54:19 6 Rafał Augustyn 3:54:38 7 Michał Stasiewicz 4:02:51 8 Oleksiy Kazanin 4:03:19 9 Lorenzo Dessi 4:04:00 10 Teodorico Caporaso 4:04:12 11 Denis Strelkov 4:04:36 12 Luís Manuel Corchete 4:05:25 13 Miguel Ángel Prieto 4:06:45 14 Ferrán Collados 4:06:57 15 Predrag Filipović 4:07:54 16 Xavier Le Coz 4:08:04 17 Ivan Losev 4:10:02 18 Augusto Cardoso 4:10:03 19 Ato Ibáñez 4:10:54 20 Dzianis Krauchuk 4:13:31 21 Claudio Villanueva 4:14:27 22 Dušan Majdán 4:15:10 23 Serhiy Budza 4:16:26 24 Dominic King 4:18:56 25 Jorge Costa 4:25:04 26 Sándor Rácz 4:28:09 27 Róbert Tubak 4:33:47 28 Margus Luik 4:34:11 — Dzmitry Dziubin DNF — Andrei Talashka DNF — Ivan Trotski DNF — Antti Kempas DNF — Hervé Davaux DNF — Colin Griffin DNF — Vjaceslavs Grigorjevs DNF — Arnis Rumbenieks DNF — Trond Nymark DNF — Pedro Martins DNF — António Pereira DNF — Andrey Ruzavin DNF — Vladimir Savanović DNF — Alex Flórez DNF — Miloš Bátovský DNF — Maksym Kovalenko DNF — Janis Strautinš DQ — Nenad Filipović DQ — Andreas Gustafsson DQ — Igor Yerokhin DQYerokhin was originally awarded the silver medal after finishing 2nd in the event. The result was annulled after Yerokhin was banned from athletics competition for life in 2013.IAAF Rule 32.2.b (Doping)

Team (50 km Men) Place Country Points 16 pts 17 pts 39 pts 4 48 pts

Men's 10 km (Junior) Place Athlete Nation Time Ihor Lyashchenko 41:26 Hagen Pohle 41:36 41:58 4 Oleksandr Verbytskyy 42:09 5 Pavel Parshin 42:16 6 Alvaro Martin 42:17 7 Luís Alberto Amezcua 43:10 8 Leonardo Dei Tos 43:21 9 Patrik Spevák 43:41 10 Marcel Lehmberg 43:48 11 Dimitri Malosse 43:52 12 Aleksi Ojala 44:00 13 Nicolas Gosselin 44:03 14 Massimo Stano 44:35 15 Ihor Puzanov 44:48 16 Juan Antonio Raya 44:49 17 Sahin Senoduncu 45:14 18 Viktor Márkus 45:43 19 Samuel Pereira 45:46 20 Miklós Srp 45:51 21 Marcel Faber 46:06 22 Bruno Pedro 46:19 23 Leonardo Serra 46:44 24 Edgars Gjačs 46:55 25 Anders Hansson 46:56 26 Adrian Dragomir 47:00 27 Evan Lynch 47:08 28 Valters Gerinš 47:21 29 Romain Denimal 47:26 30 Jamie Higgins 47:28 31 Andrzej Łobaczewski 47:47 32 Peter Tichý 47:57 33 Jakub Herba 48:42 34 Łukasz Kostka 49:04 35 Ozgur Ozan Pamuk 49:12 — Damir Baybikov DQ

Team (10 km Junior Men) Place Country Points 5 pts 8 pts 12 pts 4 13 pts 5 22 pts 6 24 pts 7 30 pts 8 38 pts 9 41 pts 10 52 pts 11 52 pts 12 64 pts

Women's 20 km Place Athlete Nation Time Vera Sokolova 1:30:02 Anisya Kirdyapkina 1:30:41 Elisa Rigaudo 1:30:55 4 María Vasco 1:31:41 5 Olha Yakovenko 1:32:08 6 Melanie Seeger 1:32:14 7 Nadiya Borovska 1:32:30 8 María José Poves 1:32:36 9 Susana Feitor 1:32:43 10 Julia Takács 1:33:09 11 Anna Lukyanova 1:33:27 12 Johanna Jackson 1:33:53 13 Inês Henriques 1:34:11 14 Zuzana Schindlerová 1:34:15 15 Ana Cabecinha 1:34:31 16 Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė 1:34:35 17 Nastassia Yatsevich 1:35:21 18 Marie Polli 1:35:37 19 Federica Ferraro 1:35:48 20 Olena Shumkina 1:36:20 21 Laura Reynolds 1:36:31 22 Tatyana Korotkova 1:36:43 23 Neringa Aidietytė 1:36:55 24 Ana Maria Groza 1:37:18 25 Katarzyna Kwoka 1:37:23 26 Lucie Pelantová 1:37:37 27 Karoliina Kaasalainen 1:38:21 28 Eleonora Giorgi 1:38:29 29 Emilie Menuet 1:38:33 30 Antonella Palmisano 1:39:00 31 Agnieszka Dygacz 1:39:16 32 Agnieszka Szwarnóg 1:39:45 33 Hanna Drabenia 1:39:53 34 Laura Polli 1:40:01 35 Mari Olsson 1:40:20 36 Anita Kažemāka 1:40:57 37 Edina Füsti 1:41:00 38 Anne Halkivaha 1:41:01 39 Olena Shevchuk 1:42:07 40 Paulina Buziak 1:42:19 41 Mária Czaková 1:44:22 42 Viktória Madarász 1:45:02 43 Eszter Gerendási 1:47:27 44 Lisa Kehler 1:47:58 45 Anita Cuhnova 1:55:39 46 Karolína Škrášková 2:02:19 — Lorena Luaces DQ — Olive Loughnane DQ — Claudia Ștef DQ — Alina Matveyuk DNF — Agnese Pastare DNF — Sonata Milušauskaitė DNF — Kristina Saltanovič DNF — Vera Santos DNF — Ana Veronica Rodean DNF

Team (20 km Women) Place Country Points 14 pts 22 pts 32 pts 4 37 pts 5 50 pts 6 86 pts 7 88 pts 8 122 pts

Women's 10 km Junior Place Athlete Nation Time Yelena Lashmanova 43:10 Svetlana Vasilyeva 44:02 Kate Veale 46:32 4 Anna Clemente 49:08 5 Federica Curiazzi 49:14 6 Tuğçe Güneş 49:16 7 Anežka Drahotová 49:36 8 Olga Dubrovina 49:36 9 Paula Martínez 49:51 10 Halyna Yakovchuk 50:01 11 Charlyne Czychy 50:39 12 Eliška Drahotová 50:58 13 Diana Kačanova 51:06 14 Gamze Özgür 51:14 15 Sara Loparco 51:19 16 Amandine Marcou 51:27 17 Inès Pastorino 51:44 18 Coralie Mellado 51:48 19 Natalia Plomińska 52:08 20 Maeve Curley 52:37 21 Sandra Troyano 52:37 22 Heather Lewis 52:56 23 Amanda Cano 53:06 24 Emma Prendiville 54:15 25 Lauren Whelan 54:20 26 Erika Parviainen 54:31 27 Tetyana Davydenko 55:22 28 Sandra Monteiro 56:42 — Lyudmyla Olyanovska DNF

Team (10 km Junior Women) Place Country Points 3 pts 9 pts 19 pts 4 20 pts 5 23 pts 6 30 pts 7 33 pts 8 37 pts 9 47 pts

Participation The participation of 218 athletes (134 men/84 women) from 25 countries is reported.

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References

Results Official website results. Olhao2011. Retrieved on 2011-05-30.

External links Official website Articles on European Athletics website