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Donning a novelty Swedish Viking hat in the final few hundred metres of a race has become something of a trademark for Swedish race walker Perseus Karlstrom.
Muscat - Perseus Karlstrom produced the first European win at this year’s World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat when he strode to victory in the men’s 35km event on Saturday.
Sweden’s Perseus Karlstrom and Glenda Morejon of Ecuador were
respective men’s and women’s winners of the new 35-kilometres
event at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in
Muscat, with Japan’s world champion Toshikazu Yamanishi taking gold
in the concluding men’s 20km race.