Valentí Massana

Valenti Massana ( Valenti Massana Gracia, born July 5, 1970 in Viladecans ) is a former Spanish goers.

As José Marín and Jorge Llopart, the founder of the Spanish success in the series Walking in the 1970s, also Valenti Massana derives from the immediate vicinity of Barcelona. And like its two predecessors, the Catalan career lasted quite long even at Massana. This Massana came almost always the finish. Only at a major championship, he was disqualified, calculated at the Olympic Games in 1992 at home in Barcelona, ​​where he was in the 20 km walk on a medal position, as the Gehrichter took him out of the race.

His biggest success Massana in 1993 in Stuttgart, when he came to the Italian Giovanni de Benedictis with half a minute ahead of the finish. However, his lead was down to the stadium much less, because the Mexicans Daniel García was lying in second place, disqualified only in the stadium. In 1995 Massana benefited from the fact that García was arrested again out of the race just before the end, so that Massana came to silver behind Michele Didoni from Italy.

Also in the 50- km Walk Massana won a medal with bronze in Atlanta in 1996 behind Poland's Robert Korzeniowski and the Russian Mikhail Schtschennikow.

At a height of 1.65 m his competition weight was 51 kg.

Placements

Bests

  • 20 km Road Walking: 1:19:25 h 1992
  • 50 km Road Walking: 3:38:43 h 1994
Racewalking Mikhail Shchennikov 1990 European Athletics Championships 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1991 World Championships in Athletics 1993 World Championships in Athletics 1994 European Athletics Championships 1995 World Championships in Athletics 1998 European Athletics Championships 1999 World Championships in Athletics 2001 World Championships in Athletics Ernesto Canto Aleksandr Ivanov (racewalker)
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