Fiorini and Perez break race walking world records

In the women's race walking, Sofia Fiorini of Italy smashes the marathon world record by over nine minutes, with Maria Perez of Spain also setting a world record in the half-marathon, at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug 15 : Spain's Maria Perez and Italy's Sofia Fiorini set world records for the women's half-marathon and marathon race walks respectively when winning gold medals at the European Athletics Championships on Saturday.Perez's time of one hour 30 minutes and six seconds was well inside the world reco