A thunderstorm postpones the test at the 20 km walk

Disputing the men’s 20 kilometer walk, the first test of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, it was delayed for two hours due to the forecast of thunderstorms en route.

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The race, starting and ending at Heroes’ Square in Budapest, it is scheduled to start at 8:50but bad weather forced the organization to be postponed, just minutes before departure, the start of the exam at 10.50.

This is a test where Spain can dream of a medal if Álvaro Martín has a good day. The man from Extremadura is the strongest walker in the team -fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Games- and comes to the event as the current European champion and with the sixth best world record of the year.

Chinese Jun Zhang, Japanese Koki Ikeda and Ecuadorian David Hurtado will be his main rivals. Diego García Carrera and Alberto Amezcua will also be at the event, both with extensive experience in major championships.

On Sunday it is the turn of the women’s event, with the premiere of María Pérez, the only Spanish world record holder. The woman from Granada will face the 20km as the leader of the year and will not have the technical problems she has suffered in recent years. Pérez is going all out in the two march distances (20 and 35km) and her main rival in both events is the defending champion, the Peruvian Kimberly García León.