Podebrady with lawyers Christopher Linke, Eleanora Giorgio and Anežka Drahotová !!!

On Saturday, April 6, the 87th annual Poděbrady Walking walking race will take place, which falls into the category of Permit Meeting EA and is also an interstate match and championship of the men's and women's republic on the 20-kilometer track. Once again, a very interesting international competition will meet in the Central Bohemian spa town. Last year's defenders Christopher Linke and Eleanora Giorgio and home star Anežka Drahotová are also present.

Leaflet 2019From the point of view of Czech spectators, the most attractive walking competition in this year's competition will be the women's 20-kilometer race, in which we will see a silver medalist from last year's European Championships and a Czech record holder. Anežka Drahotová. Coach Ivo Piták's trustee managed to win in Poděbrady in the past. It happened in 2014. Last year she finished in fifth place and this year she believes in a better position. This year he has already started two starts at a distance of twenty kilometers. In Lugano, Switzerland, she finished third in 1:34:27, securing her participation in the World Championships in Doha. A week later, in Dudince, she finished in fifth place in 1:37:08. As part of the championship race, she will then strive for her fifth title in her twenties. She did not give her opponents the slightest chance and managed to achieve a sovereign triumph. Among the favorites for the podium is certainly the Lithuanian Živilé Vaiciukevičiutéová. Poděbrady's maximum bronze medalist from the UEFA European Under-1 Championship and fifth from the European Championship in Berlin is third place in 28. Last year, she finished just below the podium in fourth place. Non-European competitors also have high ambitions. It is certainly worth mentioning the silver medalist from the Pan American Games and the Central, North America and Caribbean Championships Mirna Ortizová from Guatemala or the Mexican Valeria Ortuňová, who took sixth place in Poděbrady last year. Veronika Janošíková.

The defending champion, the German Christopher Linke, which is a fighter who is doing unusually well in Poděbrady, will not be missing in the men's race either. He walked the Poděbrady Walking meeting three times in 2015, 2017 and 2018. It was during his last victory in the Central Bohemian spa town that he set a valid personal record of 1:18:59. In addition, he also rejoiced in the primacy of the European Walking Cup in the 2017 season. The bronze man from the European Championships in Berlin, Vasily Mizinov, will be at the start. The Russian pedestrian, who races as an independent athlete, has improved his career maximum to 1:18:32 in Sochi this year and will have the highest ambitions. Barrondo. The Guatemalan pedestrian has been on the podium in Poděbrady in the past. In 1, he was third. Another fighter with an excellent 18:25:2012 person is the silver medalist from the 2015 World Championships and the sixth from the London 1 Olympic Games, Eder Sánchez from Mexico. 18 German Karl Junghannss.

 Three Czech national team will take part in the international match. The biggest support should be the four-time champion of the Czech Republic in his twenties Lukáš Gdula, who already started in Lugano at this distance and it was 1:29:03. She will join him again Vit Hlaváč a Alexander MalysaThe Czech junior team consists of Rostislav Rožnovský, Filip Kaštovský a Adam Zajíček.87. The year of the Poděbrady Walking walking meeting will start on Saturday, April 6 at 9:30 am with a youth and veterans race and will culminate at 15:30 with a men's race.