Kate Veale of West Waterford AC was in action in Slovakia over the weekend and managed to secure a podium place in a strong international field.
Post race, Kate wrote... "Nice to get a podium place at the World Tour of Racewalking event in Slovakia.
Disappointed with the time as I hoped for a lot quicker. It was however nice to just race and have a battle for the placing. After the 3rd km I didn’t even look at my watch. We can often get too caught up with splits and times instead of just raw racing. "
Report from West Waterford AC...
KATE VEALE 3RD AT WORLD TOUR RACE WALK IN SLOVAKIA.
The Slovak national championships were held today Saturday in the town of Borský Mikuláš in the western part of the country. This race was a silver world tour event and is one of the oldest race walking meets around Europe celebrating its 56th year. There were races for all ages and distances from 1km to the 20km distance.
West Waterford’s Kate Veale made the trip to compete over the 10k distance in search of a qualifying time for the European cup of race walking due to be held in the Czech town of Podabrady on 18th of May next. Finishing 3rd with a time of 49.35,Kate hopes this will now to see her selected when the Irish team is selected for the European cup. The race was won by top Mexican walker Martinez Valeria Ortuno in a fast 46.10 followed by Lara Skorbic of Croatia in 47.43.
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