CHODECKA ELITA IS GOING TO PODĚBRAD. IN THE FIGHTING FOR THE TITLE OF CHAMPION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, ANEŽKA DRAHOTOVÁ WILL HAVE A GREAT COMPETITOR IN THE FORM AFTER THE SUCCESS OF HUNGERIUM TEREZA ĎURDIAKOVÁ. IN MEN, THE TITLE WILL BE DECIDED BETWEEN LUKÁŠ GDULA AND VÍT HLAVÁČ.

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The Swedish bronze medalist from last year's Doha World Cup, Perseus Karlström, who also became the overall winner of the Walking Challenge last season, will be a big favorite in the men's race. Karlström has already won in Poděbrady in the past. This happened in the 2016 Olympic season. A year later, he proved that he is doing well at the spa colonnade when he took third place in the European Walking Cup.

The leader of the French team will be the experienced Kevin Campion. The man who ran for silver in 2017 in Poděbrady. Last year, he finished just below the podium in fourth place. The support of the Gallic rooster team can also be the bronze medalist from the European Under-22 European Championships in Bydgoszcz 2017 Gabriel Bordier. Matteo Giupponi, the eighth man from the Rio Olympics, will lead the Italian team. The former medalist from the European Youth Championships in Poděbrady won in 2011. Last year he finished seventh. Manuel Esteban Soto, a Colombian, finished ninth in the last Olympics at the last Olympics. He returns to Poděbrady after four years. We must also pay attention to the seventh man of the Olympic 50 km race, Nora Havard Haukenes, or the eighth from the World Cup and the winner of the Pan American Games at the same distance, Ecuadorian Andrés Choch.

As for the championship race, Lukáš Gdula, who will be a slight favorite in this race, will strive for his sixth title. He already has a total of eight precious metals walking from 20 km from the Czech Republic. However, his younger colleague Vít Hlaváč can step on his heels. The eleventh of last year's European Under-22 Championship in Gävle was silver three times in a row and would certainly like to win his first gold.

The women's competition should not be deprived of the participation of Anežka Drahotová this year either. Silver from the European Championships in Berlin and bronze from the European Championships in Zurich won in Poděbrady in 2014, when it also set the value of the championship record 1:29:43. Since then, she has enjoyed the championship a total of five times. It will also be interesting to see how Tereza Ďurdiaková, who has been walking for the first year and who even beat Drahotová at the railway walking meeting in Rumburk, will beat her. Ďurdiaková used to work on endurance runs. In his collection, for example, he has two precious metals from the Czech Marathon.

The Italians will have a very strong team. Their team includes Antonella Palmisan, the fourth woman of the Rio Olympics, as well as a bronze medalist at the 2017 London World Championships and the 2018 European Championships in Berlin. European Cup in walking. Within Poděbrady Walking was twice third in 2017 and 2012. Her compatriot Valentina Trapletti will try to take third place from 2013.

South America has a very large representation in the starting field. For example, we will surprise the seventh woman of the Olympic race in Rio, twice the fourth from the World Championships and the Brazilian national record holder Eric de Senová. She was the second second in Poděbrady in 2014. The Colombian Sandra Galvisová already climbed to the highest step in this race, when in 2017 she won in a personal record of 1:30:00. Now he is making his second start here. Glenda Morejónová, a great talent of this discipline, will have her premiere in the spa town of Central Bohemia. Only 1-year-old Ecuadorian shone with an excellent time of 25:29:2018 in La Coruna last year, and only Russian and Chinese competitors are ahead of her in the world tables. Morejónová is a world champion and a bronze champion from MSJ XNUMX.

The women will start the 88th Poděbrady Walking at 12:30. The men will follow them at 14:30 p.m.