Race walker Hagen Pohle overwhelmingly takes World Youth Championships title

July 11, 2009

With an impressive performance Hagen Pohle of Germany won the 10.000m race walking of the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Brixen/Bressanone (ITA). With his winning time of 41:35.99min he also bettered the previous championships record (41:49.91min from Russia’s Stanislav Emelyanov achieved in Ostrava two years ago).

Pohle went out aggressive, clocking 4:03 for the first km and went through 5.000m in 20:43.37. Building a 40m gap after the first quarter of the race, the 17-year old went on to secure a “wire-to-wire” victory, with Dementiy Cheparev (41:53,76 min) becoming second.

“I had no special tactics today, but I was wondering why nobody followed me” he stated after the race.