VIDEO and ARTICLE on the 90th BIRTHDAY OF Mr. LADISLAV POWER - THE OLDEST OF OUR LIVING LORD PEDESTRIAN:

 

Láďa Moc 04 winner in Přerov17.9. In 2021, the oldest living Czech pedestrian Ladislav Moc, a deserved master of sports, a deserved coach, a recognized international referee of walking (he also decided at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta / USA), an Olympian, a participant in the European Championships, will celebrate a significant jubilee in full mental freshness. He dedicated his life to sport walking; he began to devote himself to it only after the beginning of basic military service (1952) in the unit Sokol Zenit Prague; thanks to increasing performance he advanced to DA Jihlava (1954) and PDA Znojmo (1955) and in 1956 he moved to the army national team (ÚDA-Dukla Prague), where he was trained by A. Pigeon. In 1959, together with the Olympic medalist (silver for 50 km Helsinki 1952) and European champion (10 m Bern 000) ZMS Josef Doležal, he was transferred to the army league division Dukla Lipník n. B .; after returning to Prague (1960-65), Doležal was his coach. Ladislav Moc participated in the Olympic Games in Rome (1960 8. at 20 km and 11. at 50 km) and ME 1958 (7. at 20 km) and 1962 (12. at 20 km). He won Czechoslovak championship titles 4 times for 20 km (1957, 1958, 1960, 1961) and 6 times for 50 km (1957, 1959, 1961, 1962-64), represented in 4 international matches (1957-65). He set 3 world records on the track: two at 50 m 000: 4: 27 min (Znojmo 28.0) and 1955: 4: 21 (Prague 07.0) and one at 1956 miles 30: 4: 12 (Prague 03.4). His personal records are still very valuable today (10 m 000: 44-43,6, 1962 km 20: 1: 32-34.4, 1963 km 50: 4: 12-18.2). After finishing his racing career, he worked as a pedestrian coach from 1966 and then the head coach of athletes in the second army national representation center in Slovakia in Banská Bystrica, where he studied coaching at FTVŠ UK in Bratislava and created basic conditions for his student and successor Juraj Benčík. world-famous pedestrian groups (winners of the Jozef Pribilinec Olympics, 20 km Seoul 1988 and Matej Tóth, 50 km Rio de Janeiro 2016, European champion Pavol Blažek 20 km Split 1990, Pavol Szikora, Roman Mrázek and many other pedestrians of international level). After leaving the army in 1986, he joined the governing body of physical education and sport of the Central Committee of the ČSTV and from this position he effectively supported the pedestrian movement. Already in 1961, in Prague's Dukla (together with the soldiers of the basic service of the World Championships Vladimír Kánský and Zdeněk Gonsiorovský), he started publishing the pedestrian newsletter Czechoslovak Walk, which was before the era of information technology until the mid - 90s. years of the last century an important link between pedestrians. His main publishing credit is the authorship (over 90% of the content) of the book "A Century of Czechoslovak Walk" from 1988; it is an extensive work mapping the period (historical part, results of all races at the time, detailed statistical part). In the following years he also participated in walking activities as an honorary chairman of the walking committee at the coaching board of the Czech Athletics Association, including cooperation in organizing European and world team competitions in Poděbrady 1997 and 2017. Ladislav Moc has experienced a number of social changes over the years, but he has always respected the principle of "fair play" and is a model of a successful and at the same time wise, friendly and modest athlete.