Four Central Coast race walkers have been chosen to represent Australia in various overseas championships.
All are members of Team Overton, coached by Frank Overton and Lauren Richardson.
Dylan Richardson from Mingara Athletics will represent the nation in the 20km Race Walk event at the World University Games to held in Chengdu, China, from July 28-August 8.
The games are believed to be the second largest combined international championship outside of the Olympic Games and cover many sports.
Allanah Pitcher of Sydney University Athletics has been chosen to represent Australia to contest the 35km race walk event at the World Athletics championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 19-27.
Richardson and Pitcher both contested major events in Australia, Spain and Japan (twice), where they competed in the Japanese 20km and 35km race walk championships.
In her first 35km race walk, Pitcher broke the Australian record with a time of 2:50:23 to qualify for the world championships in Budapest.
Hannah Bolton and Hannah Mison have both been selected to contest several race walking championship events throughout England and Europe.
The two competed in the English U23 3000m Race Walk event on Sunday, June 18, with Mison taking first place and Bolton coming in fourth.
They will now travel to Germany to join the rest of the track and field squad to contest several nations championship race walking events in Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia and Spain.
All four of these athletes have had a very successful year competing in various championship events in the ACT, NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
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Frank Overton