On Sunday, fourth day of the torch relay, the Olympic Flame will go through Toumba and the Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki and will then continue to Serres, Chryso, Drama, Kavala and stay in Alexandroupoli overnight.

In Ioannina the cauldron was lit by the former football player of the national team Giourkas Seitaridis Veria was the next stop, where people watched the handball player Dimitris Batis lighting the cauldron.

The Flame then moved on to Corfu, where the cauldron was lit by the gymnastics Olympic champion in the Sydney Olympics Maria Georgatou. The third day of the torch relay began from Preveza and continued to Igoumenitsa, where the cauldron was lit by the Olympic champion in rowing in the London Olympics Alexandra Tsiavou, who run under an arch made of puddles held by young rowers. The cauldron was set up at the White Tower after the torch relay in Thessaloniki, where thousands of people rushed to see the Olympic symbol. Meanwhile, Kimberly Garcia Leon of Peru won the women’s 35km race walk on Day 8 to complete a golden double at the World Athletics Championships 2022.The Olympic Flame for the “RIO 2016” Olympic Games has arrived in Macedonia, Northern Greece, at the end of the third day of the torch relay on Greek territory. He was also third in the men’s 20km race walk on the first day of the action on 15 July.īrian Daniel Pintado of Ecuador was fourth with a South American record time of 2:24:37 with the top five completed by He Xianghong (2:24:45).Įvan Dunfee of Canada was sixth in a North American record of 2:25:02, while the American finisher was Nick Christie in 36th with a time of 2:41:08.įive athletes were disqualified and an additional handful ended with DNF status. Perseus Karlstrom of Sweden, sporting a yellow and blue Viking hat, earned his second bronze of these Championships. Stano and Kawano battled closely in the final 3km until the Italian managed to pull away slightly in the closing 300m to copped the gold medal with the second-fastest performance in history for 35km.

Masatora Kawano of Japan who also performed brilliantly in the event that is included in the World Athletics Championships for the first time, finished in second place in an Asian record of 2:23:15 before collapsing on the group in exhaustion. Read more: Day 10: Women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals start lists – Kendra Harrison vs Tobi Amusan The 30-year-old was also winning the second medal for Italy in Oregon after Elena Vallortigara won bronze in the women’s high jump on Tuesday. Stano, who won the first gold medal at this year’s world championships for Italy crossed the line in a time of 2:23:14. EUGENE, Oregon (July 24) - Italy’s Massimo Stano, the Tokyo Olympics men’s 20km gold medalist last summer, returned a year later to win the first men’s 35km race walk at a World Athletics Championships 2022 on Day 10 on Sunday (24).

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