The teams will race again during the marathon in Prague, the Czech top is truncated
Updates: 06.05.2022 12:32
Released: 06.05.2022, 12:32
Prague – Sunday’s marathon in Prague will again not only be a duel of individuals and championships of the Czech Republic, but also team competitions. This time, in addition to elite endurance athletes, recreational runners will also take part in the Battle of Teams. The results will be clear only after the last competitor has finished. Jiří Homoláč and Marcela Joglová from the elite Czech athletes will be at the start.
Homoláč peeks over the limit for participation in the European Championships in Munich 2:14:30. To do so, he would need to improve his personal record from Berlin 2019 by five seconds. “But the main goal is to be the first Czech and help win the team. I will try everything and hopefully it will work out as much as possible,” he told today’s press conference.
He may have an easier path to the title than he expected, because attorney Vít Pavlišta checked out at the last minute. “Last Sunday was still full of hope that the marathon will go. Unfortunately, probably a sedentary job and little time to regenerate, they took their toll at the most inopportune moment. Unfortunately, I will not be at the start in Prague, but I will hope to join the next races, “Said the Liberec runner on the instagram, who finished fourth this year during the championship half marathon.
On the contrary, the participation was confirmed by the Olympian Joglová, who decided at the last minute due to health problems. In the end, she will be the only one of the leading Czech endurance athletes at the start. The program of this season is extremely busy, in the summer there is a world championship and a European championship. “Every marathon runner has to plan his season well. That’s why the whole Czech top team is not here, which is heading for the national events that are approaching us. Woodcock. .
As last year, there will be six teams in action under the names of various partners organized by RunCzech. Each of them has a captain from the ranks of famous athletes and is composed of four elite competitors plus two substitutes from top runners, performances can be counted in the eventual resignation of someone from the main four. However, amateur runners can also join the teams. Their time is averaged, scored and will be the virtual fifth racer. Therefore, the announcement of the team competition will take place in the evening at the afterparty at the Hilton Hotel.
Elite African runners are preparing for the Volkswagen Marathon Prague again. The organizers believe that the race records in both categories may be in danger on Sunday. The male has been holding Kenyan Eliud Kiptanui since 2:05:39 since 2010. Kenyan Emmanuel Saina, winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon in 2018, or Ethiopian Ayele Abshero will enter the race with better personal performance than this time.
The women’s record is much younger. During the last classic year of the Prague Marathon, it was created in 2019 in the performance of 2:19:46 by the representative of Israel, Lonah Chemtai Salpeterová. This time the biggest favorites for the victory are Kenyan woman Nancy Met, who last year won the marathon in Valencia in 2:19:31, and Ethiopian Azmera Hagos. She was second at the Paris Marathon three years ago.
The race will start on the Old Town Square at 9:00.