19 Aug 2025

Shower Thoughts: How does race-walking work?

From Nights, 8:45 pm on 19 August 2025

Every Tuesday, we find an expert to answer curious questions about the world and how it works.

And tonight, we are looking at the underappreciated sport of race walking: the rules, the techniques, and the greats.

Olympian, Commonwealth silver medalist and now president of Race Walking NZ Alana Barber-Blocki chats to Emile Donovan.

New Zealand's Alana Barber takes silver in the womens 20km race walk. Picture by John Cowpland / www.photosport.nz Photo: