Excellent results of Czech walking at the European Championships in Munich!!! Well done Martínková (7th place) and Hlaváč (9th place). Ďurdiaková very good (12th place). Czech walking lives!!! Handing over the scepter Piták - Čermáková is on a very promising path.

Women's 20km walking race: Eliška Martínková, 7th place 1:31:44

Women's 20km results .pdf

Eliška Martínková started the race (on Saturday, August 20, 2022) for 20 kilometers with twenty-three other competitors. Coach Kateřina Čermáková's protégé kept up with the best in the first half of the course, when she was still in contact at the ninth kilometer. She soon started to lose it and passed the top ten as eleventh in a time of 45:24. At that moment, she was losing twenty-two seconds to the leading Spaniard, Maria Peréz, who was defending her title from Berlin. However, Peréz immediately had to go to the penalty area, where she spent two minutes.

Meanwhile, a five-member leading group formed at the front, and Eliška moved alone in tenth position. In the final kilometers, she managed to move a little higher and finally crossed the finish line in an excellent seventh place in the second best career time of 1:31:44. The Golden Pedestrian Double was completed by the Greek Antigoni Ntrismpioti, who after thirty-five did not find a conqueror even at the shorter championship distance and won in a new personal record of 1:29:03. The owner of the same precious metal from the World Cup in Eugene, Polka Katarzyna Zdzieblo, won the silver in 1:29:20. To the delight of the home supporters, German Saskia Feige won the bronze (1:29:25).

Men's 20km walking race: without the participation of the Czech Republic

Results of 20km men v.pdf

In the men's top 1, a group of eight favorites was in the lead halfway through the race. The Spaniards were very active, as well as the Swede Perseus Karlström, who managed to tear the leading group apart. Subsequently, a small crisis came upon him, which the pedestrians from the Iberian Peninsula took advantage of. Defending champion Álvaro Martín did the best of them, repeating his golden success from Berlin after four years in a new personal best of 19:11:1. Karlström caught a second wind and eventually took the silver in 19:23:1. Another representative of the Spanish pedestrian school, Diego García Carrera, finished bronze (19:46:XNUMX).

Men's 35km walking race: Vít Hlaváč, 9th place 2:37:32, Lukáš Gdula - DQ

Results of 35km men in .pdf 

Women's 35km walking race: Tereza Ďurdiaková, 12th place 3:01:19 

Women's 35km results in .pdf 

Already on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the 35-kilometer walking race started in the morning. Vít Hlaváč and Lukáš Gdula represented us in the men's competition. In the tropical heat, Hlaváč fared significantly better, finishing ninth in 2:37:32. Lukáš Gdula was disqualified. Experienced Spaniard Miguel Angel López became the European champion in 2:26:49. German Christopher Linke (2:29:30) and Italian Matteo Giupponi (2:30:44) accompanied him to the podium.

Tereza Ďurdiaková was even in sixth place in the women's championship race. In the second half of the race, however, she fell a little down the order, and finally managed the course in 3:01:19, which was enough for twelfth place. The dominant performance was shown by the winner Antigoni Ntrismpioti of Greece, who triumphantly won in 2:47:00 ahead of Spain's Raquel González (2:49:10) and Hungary's Viktória Madarászová (2:49:58). In challenging climatic conditions, only eighteen competitors reached the finish line.