COVID-19 has not stopped the traditional race race in Olomuc (SVK) which has reached its 54th edition this year.
Initially scheduled for March this season the event took place in the distance of 10km on the road on Saturday 1 August 2020.
10km road walk men
At the start a number of athletes that this season had offered only in Kobe (JPN) races before the pandemic.
Frankly, we were no longer used to seeing 28 athletes at the start.
Victory for Michel Morway (SVK) in 43:22 fourth time ever on the distance of the 24-year-old Slovak athlete after the 42:21 personal best of Banska Bystrica, SVK of 21.9.2010 and after the two 42:52 obtained in Olomuc, CZE (13.4.2019) and Plzen, CZE (18.5.2019)
Second place to Jaromir Moravek (CZE) still U18 in 43:48 which really demolished his previous personal best (49:01, established in Milovice, CZE on 11.5.2019).
A mark of 5:31 better thanthe previous is not an everyday thing even in the youth categories.
This year in Milovice on 20.6.2020 he had stopped the clock in 46:30 time which however improved his personal best on the distance on the track (46:42.1)
Third place in Vit Hlavac (CZE) in 43:48
10km road walk women
Also in this race a large number of athletes at the start (24)
Victory to Anezka Drahotova (CZE) in 46:49 time slightly higher than that recorded on 20.62020 in Milovice (46:35) which remains her season best.
However, it remains to be pointed out that on 12.1.2020 in Melbourne (AUS) during the first test of the usual Supernova stage he obtained a good 44:34.5 on the track distance
Below her progression over the distance over the years
| Performance | Place | Date |
2020 | 46:35 | Milovice (CZE) | 20 JUN 2020 |
2019 | 47:06 | Olomouc (CZE) | 13 APR 2019 |
2018 | 44:53 | Olomouc (CZE) | 30 MAR 2018 |
2014 | 43:40 | Taicang (CHN) | 04 MAY 2014 |
2013 | 46:29 | Dudince (SVK) | 19 MAY 2013 |
2012 | 44:31 | Chiasso (SUI) | 14 OCT 2012 |
2011 | 46:46 | Bergamo (ITA) | 23 SEP 2011 |
2010 | 51:38 | Poděbrady (CZE) | 10 APR 2010 |
2009 | 55:45 | Poděbrady (CZE) | 25 APR 2009 |
Second place to Tereza Durdiakova (CZE) in 47:28
Third place to Eliska Martinkova (CZE) in 49:43