Race walking was first introduced as its own Olympic event in 1908, decades after the pastime developed in Victorian England ...

(Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) The men’s and women’s race walking events continued at the Rio Olympics on Friday and so did the Internet’s snark about the sport. But it wasn’t always such ...

You've entered an Olympic domain, and we're here to teach you about a racing discipline that's both challenging and historic, having first appeared on the Games program more than a century ago. What ...

Race walking is an event contested in all levels of the sport of track & field, from youth athletics up to and including the Olympic Games. Race walking combines the endurance of the long distance ...

The course for the marathon and race walking at the Paris Olympics draws inspiration from the famed Women's March of 1789, when nearly 7,000 Parisian women marched through Paris Versailles to bring ...

Have you ever heard of race walking? It's been an Olympic sport since the 1900s and will feature at the popular sports event in Paris this year. However, not many people know about it. Young ...

MONACO — Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood doping, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. Ikeda was second ...

“I guess just knowing that was going to be my last Olympic individual race, walking out in front of that crowd. “Feeling that adrenaline, it’s what I have been dreaming of doing since I was ...

Switching from distance running to race walking, Laskua became a 3 time Olympian ... Henry competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. Masters Race Walker of the Year Award Each year, one male ...