Pedestrian calendar 2013 - 2024 / GEHER ​​TEAM Kalender 2013 - 2024

Ján Záhončík, a member of SMOLA CHŮZE zs, was appointed a member of the board of directors of the Sports Support Fund of the Ministry of Sports of the Slovak Republic.

The Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic, Tomáš Drucker, dismissed the chairman of the board of directors, Ladislav Križan, while his duties will be performed by the deputy chairman of the board of directors, Gábor Asványi, until his successor is appointed. Two members of the board of directors, Dušan Šaradín and Michal Varmus, were also dismissed from their positions. Ján Pivovarník and Ján Záhončík (member of SMOLA CHŮZE zs Praha). At the proposal of the Ministry of Finance, member of the supervisory board Veronika Gmiterko was also dismissed, so far without replacement.

The meeting of the board of directors with the new composition is scheduled for Thursday, December 14, 2023 at home in the National Tennis Center of the Slovak Republic.

Hearty congratulations to Ján Záhončík!

New Year's Eve hall walk in Jablonec nad Nisou 27.12.2023 and other indoor races. Limits for MČR in walking in the hall and on the road for the year 2024.

The year has passed and the indoor season is slowly approaching. The first dates of the races were gradually published, so walkers can write down the first races in their training plan. For those who have not met the limits for the MČR, there will be a number of opportunities to meet the limit. In addition to the dates of the competitions, the limits for not only indoor championship competitions were also published.

Traditional New Year's Eve hall under the baton of AC Slovan Liberec and František Páryse will take place again 27.12.2023. Propositions are already available on the athletics website:

https://online.atletika.cz/Propozice/propozice/71028

Championship Moravia a Silesia will take place in the Ostrava hall on January 21.1.2024, 3000. All categories will start, from older students to male and female components. Distance to 5000 m and XNUMX m.

ExEbor Libereckéit cuts him

A week later on 27.1. 2024 will be held by the Přebor of the Liberec Region in Jablonec nad Nisou. Usually competitors outside the LKAS can also start, the length of the tracks is from 2000m to 5000m depending on age and gender.

 They are usually traditional races Indoors Wednesdays in Jablonec nad Nisou, whose dates are already known. However, the proposal is still missing, last year walking was included in the 4th, 6th and 7th Indoor Wednesdays.

Championship of the Czech Republic in walking

11.2. will take place, again as part of the multi-sport championship race, the pedestrian championship race in the Olymp Hall in Prague.

Just like last year's race, performance limits must be met this time as well, allowing pedestrians to represent our sport in a dignified way. The limits have not changed since last year, races from 1.4.2023 are counted from races with a length of 3 / 5 / 10 km.

At the moment, 12 Czech men have met the limits at various distances: Ambrož, Gdula, Hanyk, Hlaváč, Hurdálek, Kolář, Malysa, Morávek, Nedvídek, Pazdera, Říha, Zajíček. The veteran Lapka is only a few tenths of a second behind the limit on the 5000 m course.

Among the women there are significantly fewer limiters, at the moment 6 Czech women have fulfilled the limit: Bakliková, Bugárová, Ďurdiaková, Martínková, Petříková, Pohlová Kučerová.

Those who would like to try to meet the 10 km distance limit, there are starting options. 17.12. there is a World Tour race in Dublin, 20.1. there is then the opportunity to compete on the roads in Antalya, Turkey.

Participantsé limits

However, the indoor season is far from over after the MČR. Competitors in the Masters category will have 2 more opportunities to test their performance.

Championship NoR windyes

24.2. the traditional veteran championship will be held, experienced competitors will compete in the Jablonec hall in the 3000 m walk.

European Championships Masters

In a beautiful hall in Torun, Poland, from 17.3. - 23.3.: will hold the ME masters category. Walking competitions for 3000 m will take place on 18.3 (men) and 19.3. (women).

During the indoor ME Masters, there are also road races. And the pedestrians will compete at a distance of 5 km on 22.3. This is the difference compared to the WC, where the race is also held on the road, but on a double 10km track, and this was also the case this year at the WC also in Toruń, from which the following photo is also available:

In addition to the indoor championship, the limits for MČR na 20km. This race will take place as usual in Poděbrady on 6.4. 2024.

The limits for the race were listed as follows (again matching the previous year):

Among the men, Gdula, Hanyk, Hlaváč, Kolář, Malysa, Morávek, Nedvídek, Pazdera, Říha and Zajíček have met the limit for some distances at the moment. Among the younger athletes, Kukla and Novák are among the limiters, but they will most likely prefer to start in Poděbrady in the MU 10km national team jerseys.  

Among the women there are certain limiters Bakliková, Bugárová, Ďurdiaková, Hlaváčová, Martínková, Petříková and Pohlová Kučerová. Franklová and Klimentová from the younger female athletes.

We wish all athletes good health and many beautiful training kilometers for the winter training and indoor season. 

The achievements of our walking judges at the international level.

In the second half of this year, a new challenge for pedestrian referees appeared on the scene of world athletics. As part of the recruitment of new referees of the international level, World Athletics (WA) has announced trials for aspirants for the posts of referees of the silver level.

For the Czech Republic, Miloslav Lapka and Martin Nedvídek from AC Rumburk were nominated by ČAS for training and the subsequent test. One of the conditions for participation in the exam was a good command of English, as the online exams were primarily conducted in English. More than 150 candidates participated in the preparation for the exams.

American referee, walker and great promoter of walking, Jeff Salvage, for the first time in history, analyzed the entire WC in Budapest, measured on the computer the degree of non-contact of individual competitors in various situations, he also focused on knee work. For the first time in history, referees from the highest competition received a perfect analysis of their work. On the basis of these materials, more than interesting webinars were held for future and current international referees.

Aspirants for referee positions were also trained by Pierce O'Callaghan from Ireland (Vice-Chairman of WA and former elite walker) and then completed online tests.

The final exams took place on October 21.10, i.e. on the day of the Prague Pedestrian Clock. Miloslav Lapka is traditionally one of the first to register for this race, Martin Nedvídek also competes regularly in Prague. Both were absent at the start and although they were sorry for not participating, their excuse was more than understandable.

The testing lasted for several hours, in addition to the written and spoken parts, they also evaluated the Budapest one videos. Within the time limit, they had to focus on the competitors marked with an arrow and evaluate whether they are breaking the pedestrian rules.

It was generally expected that the evaluation of the trials would take some time, given their scope. However, the World Walk and WA representatives did some quick work and last week both of our representatives received an email confirming their affiliation with the WA Race Walk Silver level judges. After a long time, Czech walking has 2 representatives on the international panel of judges.

We congratulate both representatives of Czech athletics and especially walking on their extraordinary success.

One of our representatives even passed the tests at the level required for Gold level races, and we can expect even greater success in the future. Bravo.

Test videos with answers were then made available to those interested. Those interested can play the videos at full speed and then look at the results in the answers section. For educational purposes, videos are also published at half and quarter speed. 

https://www.racewalk.com/Officiating/2023SilverExam.php?fbclid=IwAR3VxxVKtXtjcY5oJu4mehUU4zWkmYVOFCLY5dFJzjQJDr90ujghK6aVlw4

TOP 3 RACES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2024: APRIL 6 - PODĚBRADY WALKING / MAY 12 - OLOMOUCÁ DVACÍTKA / OCTOBER 19 - PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL PEDESTRIAN CLOCK

 WALKING SCHEDULE 2024 in .pdf/ GEHSPORTKALENDER 2024 in.pdf

Rarity: Míla Lapka had a completely episodic double role in this series - competitor and referee at the same time. Even the world can envy us! 

The Lusatian International Race Walking Meeting 28.10.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX in Žitavva was also the last of the entire series of the Memorial MUDr. Petr Brandejský. Since the four best-rated results from the five races were included in the overall results, Mila Lapka could practically no longer be overtaken by anyone and therefore preferred the role of a stylish referee. Lenka Slabáková secured her dominant position in the women's category with her start on the five-kilometer course. Thanks to the Zittau meeting, a number of veteran competitors from abroad appeared in the final standings of the cup. We believe that this trend will continue in the coming years, walking friends from the surrounding countries will always be welcome at all races of the cup.

So we have completed the first, somewhat trial, year of the Memorial MUDr. Petr Brandejský. We are very interested in your opinions, ideas and suggestions for further improvement. Already today, we are registering several proposals for the inclusion of additional races in the series and the resulting changes to the maximum number of counted results.

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In the photo, the winner of the MBP 2023 women's category:

LENKA SLAB Á KOV Á

FINAL RESULTS MBP 2023 v.xls / RESULTS .xls 

The seventh place in the poll of the Czech Athletic Association ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2023 belongs to the pedestrian Terez Ďurdiaková.

Walker Tereza Ďurdiaková certainly did not have an easy season. She struggled in the first part of the season, but qualified for the top of the year and finished tenth in the national record at the World Championships.

As expected, Ivo Piták's protégé dominated the March national championship on a 35-kilometer course (thus winning all three registered years). However, the performance in Slovakia's Dudiny was far from qualifying for the World Championship. However, after the May European Championship in Poděbrady, where Tereza did not finish, the season took a positive turn.

At the beginning of July, she performed on the track in Nové Paca to qualify for the world championship in Budapest, where she qualified at the last minute.  

In Budapest, however, she showed that together with coach Ivo Piták, she can prepare perfectly towards the top. In the Hungarian capital, despite the very warm weather, she improved her own national record by almost 35 minutes on the 3-kilometer course and finished in tenth place in the world competition. She was in contact with the elite ten throughout the race and in the last kilometers she fought her way to tenth place and did not let go. At the finish line, she could celebrate the national record in this young discipline. She improved her performance from October 2021 in Banská Bystrica by 2 minutes and 44 seconds to 2:49:06.

At the age of 32, Tereza Ďurdiaková is among the top ten of the Athlete of the Year poll for the first time. However, it should be noted that the queen of sports has been dedicated to the sport for a few years and has only been walking for four years. "Everything fell into place and the top 10 at the WC is a great satisfaction", she said.

TOP 10 ATHLETES OF THE YEAR 2023:

• 1. Jakub Vadlejch 1405 points
• 2. Tomáš Staněk 1033
• 3. Relay 4x400 m mix 1021
• 4. Radek Juška 1009
• 5. Amálie Švábíková 954
• 6. Lada Vondrová 512
• 7. Tereza Ďurdiaková 428
• 8. Nikoleta Jíchová 341
• 9. Matej Krsek 209
• 10. Tereza Petržilková 202

Tereza Ďurdiaková thus becomes, after Anežka Drahotová (in 2018 in 2nd place, in 2019 in 8th place) and Eliška Martínková (in 2022 in 9th place), already the third pedestrian who in the past six years ago she made it into the TOP 10 in the Athlete of the Year poll! Congratulations!