Race Walking: An Origin Story
Director: Jeff K Salvage
Short Short
Animation |
USA |
2 min
Every superhero needs an origin story. The great race walkers of today are no different. This short is a fairy tale about the origins of race walking. Set in medieval times, it proposes that race walking can trace its roots back to a pub crawl contest held centuries before the birth of modern athletics.
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Director’s bio:
Jeff Salvage is a professor of Computer Science at Drexel University and an expert in the sport of race walking. He has created many how to books and videos related to race walking. His interest in animated started during COVID as a way to educate race walk judges since videoing athletes was no longer possible. This evolved into creating animated shorts promoting race walking.