HMČR IN WALKING 2023, PRAGUE - STROMOVKA, Otakar Jandery Hall, February 12, 2023

The championship competitions in indoor walking will take place in Prague this coming weekend. Competitors will, as already traditionally, share the hall with all-rounders.

At 10:30 a.m., the schoolgirl and teenage girl will be the first to start in the joint race, which will be 3000m.

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18 female students applied for the female students' competition, 11 of them passed the selection process. She is the clear favorite of the race Victoria Bartoňová (tr. Nejezchleba, TJ Slezan Frýdek-Místek), which this year achieved a performance of 16:23 in the Ostrava hall. Last year she won in 16:01 and we'll see if she manages to break the 16-minute mark in the championship race. Otradovská Aneta (tr. Dušek, SAK Rumburk) will want to complicate her title defense, but she has not yet started this year. Last year, she already managed to go 2 times below the 16:50 mark, but at MU in Znojmo, she did much less well (19:04). Two more competitors from coach Nejezchleb's pedestrian hatchery - Říhová Eliška (this year 17:13) and Petrušková Hana (this year 17:25) will most likely fight for third place. 5 competitors at the start are from Frýdek-Místek. Coach Pepa Nejezchleba tirelessly devotes himself to youth and walking, and he deserves a lot of thanks for the constant supply of young walking adepts.

dsc01244 Out of 12 registered teenage girls, 8 girls won the right to start. She is a clear favorite Pittner's Adela (tr. Piták/Maternová, SK Vrchlabí SMOLA KONSTRUKCE). She showed 15:11 at the championship of the Liberec region, we will see in what form she will come from her training stay in Spain, where she was gaining training kilometers together with other youth walkers. According to last year's results, the silver medal should go to Eliška Kokořová (tr. Nejezchleba, TJ Slezan Frýdek-Místek), who performed under 16 minutes last year, but this year's indoor season, however, she did not do so well - 17:50. This is also why a great chance opens up for Ema Kyselicová (Spartak Prague 4, tr. Kubicová), who improved to 17:29 this year. Winning a medal from the Czech Republic would certainly have pleased her late coach Brandejský. For other registered competitors, overcoming the 18-minute mark will be a success.

At 11:00 a.m., 7 students will line up for the start (2 competitors were eliminated). The defending champion will compete for first place Ondřej Plecháček (AC Turnov, tr. Kryštof) with Liberec Dan Mochal (tr. Paris). Although Mochal emerged victorious from the joint fight at the Liberec region championships, Plecháček, however, surpassed his performance in the indoor middle. Both are thus on 11 or 15 seconds brought them closer to the 15 minute mark.

The fight for the bronze medal will also be interesting, Šimon Václavík from Frýdek-Místek is in a better position so far - this year 16:07. However, Marek R. from Mladá Boleslav will not want to give him anything for freeösler (tr. Prückner), which is only 15 seconds behind. Vojtěch Vejvančický (tr. Rein/Reinová) from Rumbur, who has improved significantly this year, will be waiting for their technical or performance hesitation, who has improved by more than 80 seconds since last year to 16:52. 

In the junior women's race, we will see 9 competitors at the start (10 girls registered). the biggest favorite is last year's junior champion, participant of the European Championship U18 in Jerusalem  Ema Klimentová (AK Šternberk), which is newly preparing alongside Eliška Martínková under the guidance of coach Čermáková. Her biggest rival should be Alžběta Franklová (SK Jeseniova, tr. Čermáková/Korbel), so far this year 15:05. Four competitors are fighting for the bronze medal. Lucie Krinwaldová (AC Mladá Boleslav, tr. Šolc) has the best time so far - 4:16, who was the only one of the bronze medalists to get under 58 minutes. Plešáková Michaela (tr. Lapka, TJ Sokol Česk) will certainly want to prevent her from winning a medalé Budějovice), however, the defending champion Katka Nedvídková and her training partner Anna Horáková (both AC Rumburk, tr. Nedvídek) will not want to be left behind either.

Together with the juniors, 6 women will stand on the starting line (1 competitor eliminated). Czech number one Eliška Martínková will be missing, preparing for the new season in Colombia. However, after the training camp in Spain, the no less Czech star should test his form Tereza Ďurdiaková (USK Prague, tr. Piták). If she fulfills the requirements on paper, then Klára Hlaváčová (tr. Čermáková, AC TEPO Kladno) should go for the silver medal, but she has not yet started this year. The battle for the bronze medal will be for Śtěpánek Pohlová-Kučerová (tr. Hlavenka, TJ Sokol Hradec Králové) to complicate this year's significantly improving Johana Petříková (Spartak Prague 4), who, like Ema Kyselicová, is a confidante of the recently deceased Mudr. Petr Brandejského. Nelly Bugárová and Michaela Bakliková (both AK Škoda, tr. Malysa) will strive for further improvement of this year's ORs.

dsc01166After the women's 3000m race, the teenagers will start together with the juniors, but they will fight on the 5000m track. Among the six teenagers (2 competitors deleted), another one of coach Nejezchleb's wards has the best performance this year - Vojtech Novak - 24:49. His biggest rival should be Matěj Piták (tr. Maternová/Piták, SK Vrchlabí SMOLA KONSTRUKCE), who adjusts the form and perhaps also the technique in Spain. The fight for bronze is an open matter. This year Vojtěch Peroutka (tr. javůrek/Svoboda, Dukla Prague), we will see how he will do at the premiere at 5000m.

The starting list of juniors is traditionally a sad sight. Only 3 competitors registered for the race.

Last year's fourth place will have the opportunity to improve Roman Hanyk (tr. Šnajdr, AC Turnov), however, he will not want to leave the championship title to the more technically confident Albert Kukla (tr. Korbel, SK Jeseniova), silver last year in the junior race. Third place should go to Matěj Nejedlé (tr. Novák/Rybák, SK Notyři Dvory České Budejovice). 

The highlight of the walking competitions will undoubtedly be the men's 5000m race. 9 competitors are registered, led by the defending champion I welcome Hlaváč (tr. Větrovcová, AC TEPO Kladno), who last year showed an excellent performance under the 20-minute mark. Together with him, another representative, who won silver last year in a very good time of just over 20 minutes, Lukáš Gdula (tr. Čermáková, Hvriding Pardubice). Both competitors have been gathering training kilometers together in Cyprus and we will see in what form they show. However, last year's juniors Zajíček - Morávek will fight for their place in the sun. At the New Year's Hall, Zajíček (team Ketner, Atletika Poruba) went OR and clearly beat Morávka (team Ketner/Čermáková), but he is still a few seconds short of our Olympians. Jaromír Morávek has undergone a coaching change and the spring season will show how the new management will suit him. If any of the aforementioned competitors falter in terms of performance or technique, then our elite veterans will certainly be waiting for their chance. Last year's bronze winner Rostislav Kolář (SK Hranice) was also a ward of the late doctor, and we can certainly look forward to a nice fight with Martin Nedvídek (tr. Nedvídek, AC Rumburk).

A beautiful walking Sunday awaits us, which will hopefully be filled with a whole series of personal records.