The presidency of the Czech Athletics Association has approved a nomination for the March World Walking Team Championship.

The Walking World Team Walking Championship will take place on March 4 and 5 and will be hosted by the Omani metropolis of Muscat. The Czech colors will defend five names.

Muscat 2022We will be represented in Tereza Ďurdiaková in the women's 35-kilometer race. In October last year, she set the value of the national record in this new discipline at 2:51:50 and secured her participation in the World Championships in Eugene and the European Championships in Munich.

The Czech jersey Vít Hlaváč will wear the men's 35-kilometer race. Thanks to last year's time of 2, he has already completed the 33-kilometer race at the European Championships in Munich, but if he wants to think about participating in Eugene, he must aim for a time of XNUMX:XNUMX, which would mean a significant improvement in his personal record.

In the women's 20 km race Silver from MEJ in Tallinn and bronze from MSJ in Nairobi will make its premiere at a major international event among adults Eliška Martínková, which is certainly thinking about a significant shift in the career high on this track, which so far has a value of 1:39:13. The sharp limit for starting at the European Championships in Munich is 1:32:15.

In the junior category at 10 kilometers we will have two representatives at the start, so the Czech youths will have the opportunity to intervene in the team competition. The twelfth of the MEJ in Tallinn and the eighteenth of the MSJ in Nairobi Jaromír Morávek and the twentieth of the MEJ in Tallinn Adam Zaječek they will target 43:00 to secure this year's Junior World Championships in Cali, Colombia.