On Friday 4 January, the indoor activity of 2019 was opened in Slovakia with the traditional race test dedicated to Matej Toth combined with the Slovak championships in the U20 category.
In total a parterre of 56 walkers have competed in Banska Bystrica. As usual, in addition to local ones, some were also from the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The head coach of Slovakia, Matej Spišiak, declared at the end of the races that he had seen a typical average performance at the beginning of the season when many athletes are still in intense training.
The only exception perhaps was that of Lubomir Kubis who compete very well obtaining in the indoor ring a time of just 17"45/100 higher than the personal best track ever obtained in Banska Bystrica on June 23, 2018 (20:59.46).
These are the results of the Matej Toth Cup senior events
5.000m indoor men
Victory for Dominik Cerny (SVK) in 20:25.89
Second place for Vitek Hlavac (SVK) in 21:20.52
Third place for Vojtech Libnar (SVK) in 22:04.44
3.000m indoor women
Victory for Viktoria Madarasz (SVK) in 13:03.80
Second place for Maria Czakova (SVK) in 13:17.16
The events of the U20 Championships had the following result.
5.000m indoor U20 men
Victory for Lubomir Kubis (SVK) in 21:16.99
Second place for Patrik Nemcok (SVK) in 23:13.29
Third place for Alan Hamzic (SVK) in 25:52.86
3.000m indoor U20 women
Victory for Hana Burzalova (SVK) in 14:24.64
Second place for Alzbeta Ragasova (SVK) in 15:04.15
Third place for Lucia Ruskova (SVK) in 16:22.98
(photos by Matej Spišiak - SVK)