Racewalking , or Walking race , is a long-distance athletic event. It is different from running : in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Stride length is reduced, so to achieve competitive speeds , race walkers must walk at speeds close to those that Olympic 400-meter runners use. They must walk at those speeds for hours at a time since the Olympic events are the 20 km race walk and 50 km race walk. ^[1]

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• Racewalk.com
• High School Race Walking
• Race Walking Record - News, photos and reports all about racewalking Archived 2018-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
• World Masters Race Walking Rankings Archived 2018-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Race Walk UK Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Race Walk Australia
• D. Guebey walking pages

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