On Sunday, April 23, the "Zahoracka" meeting was held at Borsky Mikulas (SVK), organized by Ing. Roman Gazarek, who saw Matej Toth (SVK) competing in a 20km race.
20km men
The Olympic champion had no difficulty in winning the race with the time of 1:24:38 and with an impressive average regularity of 4:14); His fastest kilometer was the 11th (4:12), while the slowest ones were covered in 4:16 (2nd - 5th - 15th - 17th and 20th).
These are his split times:
- 5km: 21:11 - (4:13 - 4:16 - 4:13 - 4:15 - 4:16)
- 10km: 42:17 - (4:14 - 4:13 - 4:14 - 4:13 - 4.14)
- 15km: 1:03:25 - (4:12 - 4:15 - 4:13 - 4:15 - 4:16)
- 20km: 1:24:38 - (4:15 - 4:16 - 4:15 - 4:14 - 4:16)
Second place to Milan Rizek (SVK) in 1:27:23 with an average of 4:23/km
Third place for Dominik Cerny (SVK) at 1:27:41 with an average of 4.24/km
Ten athletes at the start (6 from SVK, 1 from LAT, 1 from CRO, 1 from CZE and 1 from ITA.
Eight completed the race, 1 DNF and 1 DQ (Manuel Giordano, ITA shortly after the 5th km that had passed in 23.12).
20km women
Also in this race a victory with a time not of a high level.
The victory goes to Maria Czakova (SVK) with the time of 1:40:38, quite far from her personal best of 1:32:23 (obtained in Podebrady on April 11, 2015).
These are her split timesl:
- 5km: 24:39 - (4:50 - 4:58 - 4:56 - 4:58 - 5:00)
- 10km: 49:48 - (4:58 - 4:59 - 5:02 - 5:05 - 5:07)
- 15km: 1:15:14 - (5:09 - 5:09 - 4:58 - 5:06 - 5:07)
- 20km: 1:40:38 - (5:05 - 5:12 - 5:07 - 5:01 - 5:01)
Second place to Radosveta Stoyanova Simeonova (BUL) in 1:41:27 with an average of 4:55/km
Third place to Lucia Cubanova (SVK) in 1:46:16 with an average of 5:19/km
They completed the arrival order one athlete from Croatia athlete and another Slovakian athlete.
In the U20 race the win went to:
- 10km men: Voitech Libnar (CZE) in 45:53
- 10km women: Ema Hacundova (SVK) in 50:07
As is often the case high participation in youth and master events.
Matej Toth (photo by Janetta Malikova Lukacova - SVK)