Athletics: Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay kicks off Day 12 action

Athletics: Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay kicks off Day 12 action

Good Morning, and welcome back to the Paris 20204 official live blog!

We’re on Day 12 (boy haven’t things just flown by?), and we already have one event ongoing – the marathon race walk mixed relay. 

This is a new event added to the Olympic programme for Paris 2024. Twenty-five teams will participate in the race, each made up of one male and one female athlete, who will complete the marathon distance (42.195km) in four stages of approximately 10km each, alternating in the race (man, woman, man, woman).

With 2.5km down, Evan Dunfee (CAN) and Kawano Masatora (JPN) hold a four-second lead over the chasing pack.