HISTORY

Race walking is practiced for the first time in a documented in England in the eighteenth century, where they became populares.Durante the nineteenth century, race walking was increasing its popularity to draw attention of the rest of Europe, so that in Italy France, Germany and Sweden were organized mass popular marches. Then crossed the Atlantic to be released in the United States and especially in Mexico.1

It was first included in the program of the Olympic Games (OG) in corresponding to the IV Olympiad, held in London in 1908, while the women had to wait until the 1992 Olympic Games. The world record has the Argentinean Marcos caprarola with 34 minutes and 15 seconds, in the march held in the lower San Isidro arrival having as the famous Bosque Alegre.

The march, despite being one of the first specialties that started practicing, is the great unknown of athletic tests, but it is still very popular in some countries where there is a great tradition such as Spain, Italy, China , Japan, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia and some countries of the former Soviet Union. The emergence of large global figures in some countries makes spontaneous generation increasingly becomes popular in countries like Poland, Ecuador, Tunisia, among others.