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Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon

This year’s Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon (an IAAF Gold Label road race) will go down in history. In the event’s sixth year, the half marathon heralded its first ever European winners among both men and women. As predicted by the pundits, Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová took first place. “Until recently I could never have envisaged winning such a race. It’s an amazing feeling,” shared the Czech number one as she crossed the finish. When it came to the men, Ukrainian representative Roman Romanenko took the number one podium spot. As such the Karlovy Vary race has launched the EuroHeroes project – a new joint RunCzech and European Athletics initiative which aims to promote the development of athletics on the Old Continent.

Vrabcová-Nývltová is the hot favourite to win. The sixth Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon has drawn top runners from all over Europe to the spa town. Designed to promote the development of athletics on the Old Continent, the RunCzech initiative EuroHeroes (in cooperation with European Athletics) will get underway in Karlovy Vary. Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová is the hot favourite to win the women’s race.

The men’s and women’s races could not have been more different. From the start of the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon, a group of seven elite men worked together to set an aggressive pace despite the heat and the hilly course. Kenyan Abraham Akopesha was accompanied by four of his countrymen, plus Moroccan Mustapha El Aziz and Eritrean Simon Tesfay. All

Four men will chase the elusive sub-60-minute mark, while prolific road racer Caroline Kilel of Kenya will seek to score her first half marathon victory in almost two years during the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon on May 21. The Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon is the third of seven races in the RunCzech Running League, and the first of the

Elijah led a Kenyan quartet to victory and took 20 seconds off the event record to win the men’s title at the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon in the Czech Republic on Saturday. Tirop broke away from the leading group with four kilometres left to achieve what he described as the best win of his career in 61:01. Nicholas Kipkemboi finished

As the youngest recruit to join the RunCzech family, the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon has garnered IAAF Silver Quality Label status for this year’s race. And while this is a great result, the organizer’s sights are already set on raising the bar even higher in the future. This is something that can be seen from the incredible start pack featuring

After a rain filled afternoon clearing skies and sunshine greeted the start of the 2014 edition of the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon – the newest event of the RunCzech Running League – at 6:00 P.M. Saturday in the world famous spa city in the western Czech Republic. As 3000 runners set off into the evening to the strains of Smetana

A New Year requires fresh goals and running destinations! The rapidly growing RunCzech Running League introduces the 1st Karlovy Vary Half Marathon, to be held on the 25 May 2013. The race makes a nice addition to the other 3 regional events and continues the Czech running tour further to Bohemia and the most beautiful spa town in the heart of