Borchin and Kaniskina voted European Athlete of the Month for April
European Athlete is pleased to announce that the Russian race walking duo of Valeriy Borchin and Olga Kaniskina have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for April.
Borchin, the reigning Olympic and world champion, won the International Race Walking Grand Prix in Rio Maior with a new course record of 1:18:55, while Kaniskina, who also holds the two most coveted titles, followed Borchin’s path and registered a solid win in 1:28:35 in Rio Maior. For these superlative performances they have been voted as the star performers for the month of April.
European cross country champion Jessica Augusto of Portugal was voted second in the women’s poll. She made an impressive marathon debut at the prestigious Virgin London Marathon where she clocked a superb time of 2:24:33 for a fourth place finish, barely a minute outside Rosa Mota’s long-standing national record of 2:23:28 which was set at the Chicago Marathon in 1985.
British hurdler Tiffany Ofili, a silver medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris, placed third in the poll. She showed good form in clocking a very quick but slightly wind-assisted time of 12.66 at the Drake Relays in Des Moises, United States.
