The ČAS Board approved the addition of Kateřina Čermáková, the head coach of the ČAS Coach, and a change in the conditions for drawing funds for the preparation of representatives. 

At its meeting on June 18.6.2020, 30, the presidency of the Czech Athletic Association added Kateřina Čermáková (head from the right from the right) to the ČAS Coaching Council, who will replace Ivo Piták in this position after XNUMX years. Information on her racing and coaching activities can be found at THIS ARTICLE - Click for a link.

PaedDr. Ivo Piták, * 1958, started playing sports as a cyclist, and after basic military service in the Dukla Louny cycling section, he went walking in 1981 while studying at the Faculty of Education at Charles University. Thanks to cycling training, he was already one of the best Czech pedestrians this year and during his racing career he became the Czech champion at 4 km and once at 20 m in the hall, represented in 5 international matches and still holds Czech track records (two-hour 000 6 m, 27 m 310: 30: 000 h and 2 m 12: 17.0: 50 h). His personal records on the championship tracks are 000 km 3:58:28.1 (20) and 1 km 22:36:1985 (50). He began his coaching career in 3 and achieved by far the greatest success in training women; This is evidenced by the internationally known names Anežka Drahotová, her sister Eliška Drahotová, Barbora Dibelková, Kamila Holpuchová, Lucie Pelantová, Zuzana Schindlerová, Tereza Korvasová and this year's discovery Zuzana Durdiaková. Among his top 51 in the long-distance tables for 43 km in the women's circuit are 1986 of his charges (all in the top five), 1985 and the entire first four for 20 km. Of the number of his charges in the men's category, Olympians Miloš Holuša, Hubert Sonnek and Lukáš Gdula, the others in the youth of the untouched Rudolf Cogan, the still active Tomáš Hlavenka and now the junior Jaromír Morávek, who, after moving to his care from Brno (coach Hlavenka) and to SMOL WALK PRAGUE rocketing towards the international level. During the last period, she passes on her knowledge to young coaches, of whom K. Čermáková (coaches E. Martínková and J. Zikmundová) now takes on the difficult task of getting Czech walking back on the international stage, in which she will continue to help her. MUDr. Petr Brandejský