Here are the results from the 2010 USATF National One Hour Race Walk Championship held on October 3, 2010 at Bentley College in Waltham MA. Lap sheets and judges summaries are available on the USATF New England site.

       USATF Natl One Hour Race Walk Championship - 10/3/2010
                   Bentley University, Waltham MA
                               Results

Women's Hour Race Walk
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    Name                     Age Team                      Finals  Groups
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  1     1 Teresa Vaill        47 Walk USA                  12,813m AR, 1st W45
  2    17 Maria Michta        24 Walk USA                  12,163m
  3    24 Loretta Schuellein-McGovern
                              33 World Class Race Walking  11,597m
  4     7 Lauren Forgues      22 unattached                11,436m
  5    30 Erin Taylor         32 Shore Athletic Club       11,287m
  6     4 Abby Dunn           16 Maine Racewa              10,259m 1st JR
  7    22 Annie Schide        16 unattached                 9,995m 2nd JR
  8     2 Nicole Court-Menen  16 Maine Race Walkers         9,769m 3rd JR
  9     6 Kaitlin Flanders    16 Maine Racewaalkers         9,727m
 10     9 Rebecca Garson      46 World Class Race Walking   9,539m 2nd W45
 11    11 Maryann Harvey      53 World Class Race Walking   8,325m 1st W50
 --    32 Monica Trabold      44 unattached                     DQ
 --    10 Patricia Godfrey    64 Cambridge Sports Union         DQ

Women's Teams: 1. Maine Race Walkers 29,755m
               2. World Class Race Walking 29,461m

Men's Hour Race Walk
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    Name                     Age Team                     Finals  Groups
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  1    25 Dan Serianni        20 World Class Race Walking  12,920m
  2    16 Dave McGovern       45 World Class Race Walking  12,508m 1st M45
  3    29 Dave Talcott        50 Shore Athletic Club       12,129m 1st M50
  4    34 Evan Vincent        18 Maine Race Walkers        11,806m 1st JR
  5    23 Chris Schmid        63 World Class Race Walking  11,678m AR, 1st M60
  6    18 Dan O'Brien         45 Pegasus A.C.              11,250m 2nd M45
  7    33 William Vayo        46 unattached                10,943m 3rd M45
  8    26 Andrew Smith        61 Pegasus A.C.              10,871m 2nd M60
  9    13 Robert Keating      63 New England Walkers       10,846m 3rd M60
 10    12 Leon Jasionowski    65 Pegasus A.C.              10,839m AR, 1st M65
 11    20 Bill Reed           58 Pegasus A.C.              10,059m 1st M55
 12     5 Larry Epstein       51 New England Walkers        9,851m 2nd M50
 13    19 Edward O'Rourke     49 New England Walkers        9,615m 4th M45
 14     8 Barry Fowler        52 CT Race Walkers            9,299m 3rd M50
 15     3 Jay Diener          62 New England Walkers        9,287m 4th M60
 16    15 Stephan Mayeux      46 unattached                 9,091m 3rd M45
 17    21 Ian Rixon           16 unattached                 9,029m 2nd JR
 18    14 Charles Mansbach    66 New England Walkers        8,662m 2nd M65
 19    28 John Starr          82 Philadelphia Masters       8,360m 1st M80
 --    27 Edoardo Sorrenti    67 World Class Race Walking       DQ

Men's Teams: 1. World Class Race Walking 37,106m
             2. Pegasus A.C. 32,960m
             3. New England Walkers 30,312m

 Youth Quarter Hour Race Walk
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      Name          Age Team                Finals
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 1 Spencer Dunn     M12 Maine Race Walkers  2,520m
 2 Sarah Moody      F10                     2,153m
 3 Hayley Bickford  F10                     2,074m
 4 Meredith Miner    F9                     1,800m

Officials included Maryanne Daniel, Ron Daniel, Tom Eastler, Joe Light, Bill Pollinger, and Brian Savilonis.

Records

Several American Records were broken at the One-Hour. Teresa Vaill set a new W45 mark of 12,813 meters, improving on her previous record of 12,162 meters set at the same event in 2008. Chris Schmid (M60) walked 11,678 meters, breaking Leon Jasanowski’s 2005 record of 11,603 meters.

Leon Jasionoswki set three M65 age group records. He walked 10,839 meters breaking his own M65 mark of 10,808 meters set less than a year ago at the same event. Leon covered the first 3,000 meters in a time of 16:17.5 breaking Ted Moore’s time of 16:38.5 set 2005. He also walked 10,000 meters in 55:25.6 breaking his own mark of 55:37.3 set last year at the same event.

Two walkers continued after the hour and walked 15,000 meters. Chris Schmid (M60) covered the 15,000 meters in 1:18:07.2 breaking Dave Romansky’s 1998 record of 1:21:43.0. Dave McGovern (M45) walked 15,000 meters in 1:13:28.7 breaking Stan Chraminski’s 1995 record of 1:19:12.2. Enroute, Dave set a new 3,000 meter age-group record with a time of 13:58.4. Dave bettered Doug Johnson’s 2008 record of 15:21.4.

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