The Lužánky run returns after three years. Triathlete Ospalý also starts
After three years in South Moravia, they will really open the running season. Not that people didn’t play sports during the coronavirus pandemic, but they haven’t started in the Lužánky Run in the past two years, which traditionally opens the racing season. On Sunday, the 76th year of the running company in South Moravia is produced.
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Lužánky.
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In 2020, the Brno plant was completely canceled, last year it took place only virtually. “At the beginning of February, we had no idea what would happen, then the measures softened and there are none today. We sewed the race with a hot needle, but we finally meet live. From 2020, we have 271 paying applicants, to whom we promised that they could participate in 2021, but due to the covid wave, only a virtual year took place. At the moment we have four registered men and women, but some of the original ones have not yet been confirmed, “said the director of the race Karel Walter from the organizing club AC Track & Field Brno. You can register before the start on the spot, for adults registration costs 390 crowns.
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In the Lužánky city park, some sidewalks are undergoing reconstruction, so the route is changing this year. The main race of men measures 8034 meters and women run 6695 meters. “We had to change the circuit slightly, the map on our new website shows where it is going. The men have six circuits instead of five, the women five instead of four, the overall race was extended by only about two hundred and fifty meters, “said the director.
On Sunday, at half past nine in the morning, the children’s and youth categories, as the youngest, will start in 2015 in front of the Lužánky Leisure Center. The women will run at exactly noon and the men an hour after them.
Last year’s virtual year among men was dominated by David Kaláb, the fastest among women was Patricia Puklová. The last classic year with a mass start in 2019 was won by Lukáš Olejníček with a time of 24:17 minutes and the women Hana Homolková reigned 22:41.
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The biggest favorites this year include Roman Rudolecký, triathletes Tomáš Mika and Filip Ospalý or the winner of the last virtual year of the Lužánky Kaláb Run from the Track & Field Brno organizing club. “He finished second at the Moravian-Silesian cross-country championships and is preparing for the national championships in the half marathon, while he started running at the age of thirty,” Walter said.