Hlaváč won his fourth indoor walking title in a row

RESULTS

On Sunday, February 9.2th, male and female walkers competed in the Olympos Hall in Prague for this year's first championship medals. The walkers traditionally shared the hall with the multi-sport athletes. Unfortunately, despite the request of the head coach Nedvídek to establish a penalty zone, this was not granted, and it was a great shame, especially for the youth categories. Hopefully, the head coach will be adamant next time and will break through the rigid system that is having a hard time getting used to changes.

The female students were the first to start their race. Of the 17 athletes who entered, TD eliminated 5 girls, 10 walkers finally took to the start. Initially, Maredová from Jižní Město set the pace, but after two laps, the favorites from the Frýdek-Místek training group took the lead, followed by Hrochová from Dobruška, and the four quickly broke away from the rest of the starting field. Fusová, still a younger student from Opava, set out to chase the group, but as her strength ran out, her technique deteriorated and the competitor saw the red target. She broke away from the leading group 6 laps before the finish line Krasulová and surprisingly quickly gained a lead over only 2 rivals, the favorite of the race Bell-shaped and the surprise of the day Hippopotamus. Krasulová won in a new personal record of 16:45.52. Zvonková's silver medal also goes to coach Nejezchleb's group, and bronze goes to Dobruška thanks to Hrochová.

Of the 6 registered students, 5 walkers were selected, but in the end only 4 were at the start. The main favorite took the lead from the start White z Duchcova, who managed to reach 15:22 in the fall. This time he didn't even come close to this performance, he came away with a comfortable victory, narrowly beating the best student by a distance with a performance of 16:39.87. He finished for the vice-champion title Buns z SK Yesenin's and bronze is in Holešova drove away Then Saddler, but already in a time well over 18 minutes.

Of the 11 juniors, 9 girls qualified. From the beginning, she left no one in doubt about her qualities. Eliska Říhová z Frydek and went fearlessly for the championship title. With a time of 15:15.87, she was 20 seconds behind OR from the Ostrava hall, but her victory was very convincing. She tried to keep up with her one-year-younger sister for the first kilometer. Noemi Mayans z Kadaň, but then she slowed down and managed to secure silver with a time of 15:49.01. She then won bronze in the new OR Petrushkova, also from Frýdek - 16:12.06. One walker was disqualified.

KlimentovaThe 3 m races were concluded with a joint start for juniors and women. Of the Czech elite, only Ema Klimentova. Unfortunately, Martínková is still recovering from her injury from Paris and Franklová did not start due to illness. Ďurdiaková is preparing for the new season in South Africa and did not start at the Czech Championships again. Klimentová went fearlessly forward and with a concentrated performance often in the second lane she reached the time of 13:30.53 and her first title in the women's category. She held the second place very clearly in her hands Bugarova z Pilsen. She already showed her first performance under 15 minutes (14:45) in the Ostrava hall this year and was the only candidate for silver out of the five registered (only 4 competitors entered). She can be satisfied with another performance under 15 minutes - 14:50.94. Another competitor from Pilsen came third in the entire race Bakliková, but in the second half she lost strength and her technique deteriorated. In particular, she was bending one knee less and less, which did not escape the judges' eyes and soon 2 red targets appeared on the board. The competitor did not rejoice in the bronze finish for long, because soon the third proposal also arrived in the hands of the referee and the experienced one hung the bronze around her neck Špetánka Sex Curly z Hradec.

She dominated the junior competition Eliska Kokořová z Frydek (16:16.15), who was losing and gaining some meters on Pohlová Kučerová. In the new OR she managed to get the silver Oxygen ze Spartacus Prague 4 (16:21.26) and with almost a minute's delay she came in third Group ze Sternberk.

The teenagers have already walked 5m together with the juniors. The junior race lasted more than a kilometer. Novak z Frydek, but it was subsequently snatched away by four clever teenagers Mochal - Rösler - A tin can - Svoboda.

Last year's student Svoboda obviously had the strength to give, but he didn't keep his technique in check and together with Vejvančický from Rumburk, both were soon eliminated. The leading trio claimed the lead, Plecháček gradually began to fall away. 900 m before the finish he attacked Liberec Mochal and won the youth title with a convincing performance of 23:27.25. 15 seconds back he remained silver Mladá Boleslav Rösler. Bronze Turnov A tin can then lost almost a minute - 24:38.27.

Among the three juniors he went Novak purely for sure, the performance of 24:16.72 cannot be taken otherwise. The competitor can run 10 km in 46 minutes and so the failure to use the joint race with the juniors to achieve a faster time is disappointing. The silver and bronze were taken by two other competitors at the start, Hradec Králové Arnošt and Glosser.

Header targetThe championship race day was rounded off by the much-anticipated men's race. And there was plenty to watch. Out of the 11 registered, 10 athletes took to the start line, and five of them were in the running for medals. The defending champion took the lead from the first meters. Vit Head man, who kept the pace for a final time of just under 20 minutes. However, he carried a group of pursuers on his back in order Moravian - Bunny - Gdula. The youngest walker at the start, last year's junior, went with a loss from the beginning Puppet and it was clear that he did not like the warm hall and the race was not enjoyable. After less than 2 km of the race, Morávek started to lose slightly and the Zajíček - Gdula pair gradually gained on him. After about 3 km, Gdula dropped out of the medal fight, but he also had a very successful race, especially considering that he had just returned from a training camp in Melago, Italy, with Hlaváč the day before.

Morávek fought and tried to catch up with the leader Hlaváč. Kladno Vit Head man However, he watched the race with experience, managed to resist Morávka's pressure and at the finish line, in addition to another title, he could rejoice in a new OR of 19:50.00 (OR by 5 seconds). He also got under the 20 minute mark for the first time. Jaromir Moravek from Pilsen, who was only 1.75 seconds behind Hlaváč. He won the bronze medal Porubian Adam Bunny in 20:25.09. One competitor was disqualified, one race did not finish and Uher from Novoměstsk won by half a minute (23:40.54). The best Czech men put on a really nice show, it was also pleasing to see a very good technical performance, especially Morávek, who had struggled with technique in the past, surprised us very positively with his performance and was perhaps the best technically in the entire starting field. Zajíček also recorded a great improvement. The performances of the first 4 in particular are a promise for the spring season and we all firmly believe that when Kukla absorbs the increased mileage after moving to the adult category, he will also shoot for further improvement. He definitely has potential. 5 quality walking men are a promise for the Poděbrady nomination, when teams could perhaps be fielded for 20 and 35 km at the home European Championships. We will see what the spring races bring, the indoor test definitely tempted us in the men's category.

The hall again confirmed lower participation and interest in walking in the boys' categories. The low participation in the women's category is disappointing. Overall, however, walkers confirmed that walking belongs in the hall. The indoor speed test is successfully behind us and we wish all athletes, whether starting in the hall or not, quality preparation towards the spring competitions.

The year 2025 is slowly starting and the first walking races, such as the US 35 km championship, have already taken place. Most walkers are in full preparation for the next season, the last one on the 20 and 35 km routes.

Klimentová Franklová Cermáková

The representative selections and nomination criteria for representative events were published on the ČAS website during December.

Czech Athletics divides competitors into the TOP group (the amount of funds drawn up to 750 CZK), representative selection A (amount for preparation up to 000 CZK) and representative selection B (competitors included here are not allocated specific amounts by ČAS, but they can participate in paid preparation camps within the section). The representation is then divided into senior, U200, U000 and U23. The walking section lost its own representative coach last year, walking falls under the running representation and management of Jan Pernica, the subsection chief is still Kateřina Čermáková.

Details of the financial security of the representation can be found here: FINANCIAL SECURITY OF REPRESENTATION 

We are publishing this primarily because in the past, many athletes were confused about what their inclusion in specific groups actually meant.

IMG 4167Last year, the elite group “TOP” included Eliska Martínková, unfortunately, she did not defend her position in this group and was included in group A for 2025. Eliška started 2024 with a great personal best at 20 km (1:30:07), qualified for the European Championships and the Olympic Games, and set a national record at 10 km. However, this is not enough to remain in the elite group of Czech athletes. Although 11th place at the European Championships was gratifying, after technical difficulties in Antalya it was 11th place with a penalty and confirmation of persistent technical problems. At the Olympic Games, she finished 27th in the individual competition and Eliška, who was struggling with an injury, withdrew from the relay race. The competitor is back in training and has already spent December, together with Franklová, gaining kilometers in the traditional Canaries.

The “TOP” group for last year also included Tereza Ďurdiaková, who excelled at the World Championships in Budapest 2023. Since then, Tereza has been struggling, she has been missing races and it was evident that she is fighting mainly with her own head. At the beginning of the 2024 season in Turkey, she did not finish again and did not appear on the race tracks in 2024 due to alleged health problems. The announced start in December in Dublin did not take place and the only registered start is 10 km in Třebíč in a below-average 54:48. Even in the Czech Republic, this is enough to be included in group A... It is okay that Tereza remains in the selection team, an athlete should not be written off after one season. However, inclusion in group B and cooperation with the rest of the national team would be much fairer. Already during the year, Tereza broke up with coach Piták and is working with coaches in Brno. Tereza wants to strive to participate in Tokyo, but the task will truly be Sisyphean.

Group A among seniors is completed by Vit Head man. He has had a very successful year, after a long time he showed a big improvement on the 20 km course (repeatedly sub 1:24:00), broke the national record in the 10m walk, qualified for the European Championships, started in the relay at the Olympics, where he was in great form, unfortunately the Czech team did not finish the race. Vítek has already completed a December training camp in the heat of the Canary Islands, where he gained kilometers, for example, with Lukas Gdula.

IMG 4161Five Czech walkers fall into Group A of U23 athletes. They left the junior category Albert Puppet, Ema Klimentova a Elisabeth Franklova and together with senior colleagues Jaromir Moravian a Adam Bunny will gain experience on the 20 km track. Jarda Morávek, after a year-long, not very successful experiment with “The Malys” decided on another coaching change and is preparing for the new season under the wings Catherine's Cermakové, in December he trained in South Africa with the Slovak group of coaches Benčík and cooperation with the best Slovak walker Černý can be of great benefit to him. The other athletes remain with their coaches, Ketner family are traditionally preparing in the Tatras, Franklová attended a camp in the Canaries together with Martínková, while Klimentová was preparing for victory at the New Year's Eve Hall not only at Prague's Ladronka. And as it was clear, Ema is fine even in the cold Ladronka.

The only U 20 representative was included in the B selection. Vojtech Novak from Frýdek - Místek, who copied Albert Kukla's path from 2024 with this year's improvement and we will look forward to seeing whether he confirms his improvement, especially at the European Championships in Poděbrady.

She was then included among the talented and watched youngsters under 18, aspirants for national team jerseys in the future. Noemi Mayans a Eliska Říhová and four boys - Then Mochal, A tin can Ondrej, Rösler Marek a Svoboda Hynek.

In 2025, Czech walkers will face a number of national events. Only the pair Hlaváč - Martínková have a realistic chance of qualifying for the World Championships. Few believe in Ďurdiaková's return, but Tereza can surprise and may shine in Poděbrady. However, even for Hlaváč, getting to Tokyo will be difficult.

He will need 2 quality XNUMXs and must arrive in Dudince perfectly prepared. The same goes for Tereza.

The main event from the perspective of a Czech fan will be the European Team Walking Championships in Poděbrady. The limits are not strict for representatives and meeting them should be a formality. Whether someone from the foursome Hloch - Gdula - Nedvídek - Pšenička will try to get closer to the limit, for example, 35 km (2:50:00) is a question, it would be possible to build at least a complete men's team with a little good will. There are enough followers, it would be nice to see more Czech jerseys in the race.

Nomination requirements here: ME WALKING TEAM PODEBRADY 2025

The U23 European Championships in Bergen, Norway, brings something new for 2025. From the 10s, athletes are returning to the stadium and to the 000m distance. The limits should be achievable for all five representatives, the trio of Kukla - Morávek - Zajíček could exhaust the maximum quota of athletes for the discipline. The limit of 42:15 / 41:45 on the track is certainly within their capabilities. Klimentová already showed a time of 47:45/47:15 last year, Franklová is close to this time.

For the youth EYOF, the time limits are 25:00 for girls and 22:30 for boys. Mochal is 16 seconds behind, Říhová is 46 seconds behind. One Czech representative will definitely be at this event. He received an invitation to the judging and accepted the nomination Marchtin Goodbye.

Another representative event will be the Universiade in Bochum, Germany. Martínková brought home a silver medal from the last Universiade, and we would like all our students to try to imitate her. The distance at the Universiade is 20 km and the required times are around 1:33:00 or 1:24:00.

The first big test of Czech walkers and their state of preparation will be the indoor championship on February 9.2th in Prague. Indoor starts are possible this weekend in Ostrava or Jablonec, another option is the 4th indoor Wednesday in Jablonec and then the aforementioned Czech championship.

We wish all Czech walkers good health and quality preparation.

 

We wish you a successful entry into 2025 and lots of health, happiness and sporting success in it.

We wish you good luck and a healthy, happy and sportingly successful New Year 2025.

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In the spring of the year just ending, there was news from WA and EA about the recruitment of new referees. Well, recruiting. Those who passed the domestic grid could try to succeed in the November exams for referees of the international level and that Bronze level. At the same time, applications were opened for level aspirants the highest - the one golden.

RefereeParticipants had to complete online training and then pass tests consisting of a theoretical part and a practical part, where the videos taken were evaluated Jeffem Salvage at this year's WC Walking Teams in Antalya, Turkey. For this year's tests, we must thank the Slovak referee who has been living in Ireland for a long time Susan Costin, who willingly translated the materials into Slovak and it was then possible to take the exam in this language. English, which is often an obstacle in the participation of our (not only) pedestrian judges in tests of this level, did not play a role now.

It took some time to evaluate the tests, there were many aspirants. Just before the Christmas festivities, many Czech referees received a nice present. Our judges have been very successful and our panel of international judges has grown significantly.

They now have Bronze level František Paris, Michal Sander, Juraj Little one, Miroslav Svoboda. For the first time, we are also represented on the international panel by women, namely Ludmila Pudilova a Vera Parisian.

To all named warmly congratulations. Not all names are well known to pedestrians, they haven't shown up at the races so far, hopefully this will change in the future and they will contribute to the improvement of the field of active Czech referees with their erudition.

Michal Šandera's name is interesting. An excellent walker from the 90s and a representative of the national team, although he has not walked for a long time, he runs very well in competitions, but he still devotes himself to walking as a referee. Michal is a member of AC Rumburk and it can be clearly said that there is no other club in the Czech Republic that has so many successful and active members. In addition to Šandera, there is also Martin Nedvídek (Silver level) on the panel of international judges, on the panel of ČAS ŘP and TD, AC Rumburk is represented by Jan Rein and Lucía Nekulová. No other department has such a balance.

In addition to exams Bronze level preparation and subsequent tests took place during the autumn Gold level, i.e. of the highest category. The requirements are much higher here. At the Bronze level, deficiencies in the English language can be forgiven, at the silver and gold levels something similar is no longer possible. For the highest category, participation in the highest international level competitions is expected, so in addition to language skills, a perfect knowledge of the rules of athletics, technical rules (graduates often fulfill the role of technical delegates delegated to EA or WA competitions) and, above all, they must succeed in a practical test.

Referee 2The videos used for gold judges are often group and on the absolute edge of the rules. To give you an idea, the online test lasted 4 hours. During the practical test, the aspirants were shown a 20-minute test video where they had to make 70 decisions! And not only to assess, but also to write down.  

He applied for the Czech Republic Miloslav Lapka, who, like Martin Nedvídek, is a silver level referee. Although Míla Lapka did not succeed, the silverware suits him and he remains at this level. As described above, the exams were extremely difficult and it was extremely challenging to succeed. Among the lucky ones, the names are well known to Czech pedestrians. The one mentioned above Susan Costin he definitely deserves to be on the panel for his dedicated work for the walk. Big congratulations also go to the judges we know from Zittau: Martin to Skarba (SVK), which is among the organizers of the Dudin race. A Frenchman is also a popular pedestrian character and Zitava referee Emmanuel Tardi. This year, our judges included orsolya Gruber (HUN) a Mara Baleani. And those who attended the seminar in Zittau this year, if they didn't know him yet, could get to know him during the seminar Jeffa Salvage. All of them got the Gold level and moved up a notch in the judges' rankings.

Congratulations once again to all the new boys!

LUCIE NEKULOVÁ HAS CREATED A 2025 WALKING SCHEDULE - A LEAGUE WALKING WILL BE HELD IN PODĚBRADY ON 17.05.2025 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!!!

The year 2024 has not even passed yet, although the pedestrian league season already ended at the beginning of October with the final rounds and play-offs of individual competitions, and it is already necessary to prepare for the new season. Unfortunately, the STK pedestrian section did not deliver competition dates this year either, and we have to admit that the representation of our discipline in the STK has not been working for a long time.

However, a good thing happened, the dates of the walking races are in the world. In 2025, Czech walking will have 5 league rounds. And one bike will be very special.

Olomouc 12.4. 2025

Next year, the traditional walking race will host the 20 km walking championship of the Czech Republic, because Poděbrady will not host the European Championships of walking teams until May.

The first extra-league round, i.e. 20 km, was added to the championship race. It is possible to assume the possibility of starting at shorter distances for non-extra-league male and female athletes.

Nové Město nad Metují 27.4.2025/XNUMX/XNUMX

The rotating top ten of the SK Nové Město nad Metují club has also been nested in the pedestrian calendar for a long time. Athletes from all league competitions will meet in Nové Město. Extra-league and first-league pedestrians will complete 25 laps (10m), second-league teams will have 000 laps and thus 12,5m. It will be the second and therefore the final round for the Extraliga competitors, so the representatives will then be able to go to preparatory training sessions before the Poděbrady European Championship.

Poděbrady 17.5.2025

Before the EC, which takes place on Sunday, there is always a test race on Saturday. In 2025, the Poděbrady track will be really busy to the max, and the team around Jan Rein will have their hands full with the organization. In addition to the championship running competitions (1 mile and 5 km), league walkers will also walk along the colonnade! I. and II. 5km awaits the league, and league walkers will thus have the opportunity to conquer the world-famous track and test whether their technique can stand up to a team of top international judges. Adding a league competition to a test race is a move that every walking lover must appreciate and it is gratifying that the ČAS competition department supported this idea.

Prague - Satalice, 31.5. 2025

Club AC Praha 1890 will be the organizer of the 3rd league round for I. and II. league. All male and female athletes will go on a challenging, but interesting 10 km course in the Satalice forest park.

Brno - Exhibition site, 2.8.2025 August XNUMX

The Brno-based organizers from AC Moravská Slavia Brno, led by local player Tomáš Vojtíšek, will represent the Moravian clubs in the schedule after Olomouc. I. and II. the league will meet at the Brno Exhibition Center and all athletes will have a 10 km.

In 2024, the management competition introduced the premiere of the penalty zone in two races, which proved to be very practical, the PZ was widely visited, a number of athletes got the opportunity to finish the races and go for points. If the governing competition remains, we can expect the requirement to introduce PZ at all races.

However, not only league competitions fall into the pedestrian schedule. Those who will have an adequate performance can use the league competitions to fulfill the limits for the June championship competitions.

Benešov 15.6.2025/XNUMX/XNUMX

In 2024, the first men's and women's 10m walking championship took place, Vít Hlaváč decorated the race with a national record (000:40). The importance of this race will increase significantly in the coming year. The category U 26.09 will walk at the ME instead of 23 km "only" 20 m and for our young walkers it will be a good opportunity to test on the track. The MČR, like the indoor one, will take place at the same time as the all-around competition.

Giant, 21. - 22.6. Ostrava

Even for youth players, the league schedule is more than advantageous, in the spring there will be many opportunities to meet performance limits and qualify for Ostrava.

In the light of these two championship competitions, it is easy to see if we look at the athletics calendar that it is not easy to find free dates for the races so that the walk takes place before the league round.

The race dates are known, it's time to rack up the training kilometers. We wish all pedestrians good health in preparation for the 2025 season.

League walking competitions 2025:

Place Date League Distance

Olomouc 12.4.2025/1/20 Extraliga XNUMXst round XNUMX km

Nové Město nad Metují 27.4.2025/2/10 Extraliga 000nd round XNUMX m

                                                                        I. league 1st round 10 m

                                                                       II. league 1st round 5 m

Poděbrady 17.5.2025/2/5 I. league XNUMXnd round XNUMX km

                                                                       II. league 2nd round 5 km

Prague - Satalice 31.5. 2025 I. league 3rd round 10 km

                                                                       II. league 3rd round 10 km

Brno - Exhibition Center 2.8. 2025 I. league 4th round 10 km

                                                                       II. league 4th round 10 km

The traditional New Year's Eve Pedestrian Hall will take place in the athletics hall in Jablonec nad Nisou on 27.12.2024 December XNUMX. 

The organizer AC Slovan Liberec is looking forward to your participation.

The program includes a 5.000m walk for men, a 3.000m walk for women and boys and a 2.000m walk for younger boys.

The main men's 5.000m race will start at 15:00 p.m., the other walking tracks at 15:45 p.m.  

Come say goodbye to the year 2024 in Jablonec nad Nisou!

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