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Nordic walking (originally Finnish sauvakävely) is fitness walking with specially designed poles.While trekkers, backpackers, and skiers had been using the basic concept for decades, Nordic walking was first formally defined with the publication of "Hiihdon lajiosa" (translation: "A part of cross-country skiing training methodic") by Mauri Repo in 1979. [1]
Nordic Race Walking Championships: Härnösand, Sweden 2nd 5000 m walk 24:19 1981 World Race Walking Cup: Valencia, Spain: 5th 5 km walk 23:42.2 2nd Team 104 pts Nordic Race Walking Championships: Frøya, Norway 1st 5 km walk 23:57 1983 World Race Walking Cup: Bergen, Norway 14th 10 km walk 47:42 4th Team 118 pts Nordic Race Walking Championships
The modern walker, Wifalks most noted invention. Wifalk developed two aids for people with physical impairments: the manuped and the walker. She did not patent her inventions because she wanted to make them available to as many disabled people as possible.
The chief judge's job is only to disqualify the offending walker and may not submit any caution cards. Disqualifications are routine at the elite level, such as the famous case of Jane Saville , disqualified within sight of a gold medal in front of her home crowd in the 2000 Summer Olympics , or Lü Xiuzhi , disqualified 20 metres before the ...
Nordic walking has been estimated as producing up to a 46% increase in energy consumption, compared to walking without poles. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Pedestrianism is a sport that developed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was a popular spectator sport in the British Isles .
A different approach to the walker is the rollator, also called wheeled walker, invented by the Swede Aina Wifalk in 1978. Wifalk had polio . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Although originally a brand name, "rollator" has become a genericized trademark for wheeled walkers in many countries, and is also the most common type of walker in several European countries.
Nordic walking poles are extremely popular [citation needed] in Europe. Walking with two poles in the correct length radically reduces the stress to the knees, hips and back. These special poles come with straps resembling a fingerless glove, durable metal tips for off-road and removable rubber tips for pavement and other hard surfaces.
Rollo (Norman: Rou, Rolloun; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died 933), also known with his epithet, Rollo "the Walker", [4] was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France.