Race_Walking_Record
Race Walking Record
UK magazine
Race Walking Record (abbreviated RWR) is a nonprofit magazine about the sport of race walking, and walking events, primarily aimed at a UK audience. The magazine was founded in London in 1941 by Alf McSweeney [1] in order to keep athletes serving as soldiers in World War II informed about their sport back home. Alf McSweeney was president of the Race Walking Association at the time, and a printer by trade.
Race Walking was a successful Olympic sport for Great Britain [2] at that time. After producing the first issue, the magazine soon became popular. It continues to be produced each month after more than 800 issues in over seventy years.
There have been eleven editors of the magazine since 1941,[3] The current editor is Noel Carmody. Race Walking Record is registered with ISSN 1351-833X.