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Male pro-athletes

Chakib Lachgar ESP 1:01:45 – Azpeitia 2023

Spanish athlete who started running at a good level very late, in 2023, when he was over 30 years old. He did 1:01:45 in Half and 2:11:11 in his second Marathon at Sevilla. After he did 28:20 in 10K, he won the gold medal at the World 50K Championships in India in 2023. He experimented in Road Races and Long-Distance events from 10K to 50 K.

Khalid Choukoud NED 1:01:53 – Breda 2013

A Dutch track and field athlete who specializes in the Marathon. He finished seventh in the 10,000 meters on the track at the 2012 European Championships. He competed without finishing at the 2016 European Championships half Marathon. On April 11, 2021, he set his current personal best in the Marathon of 2:09:55 during the 2021 IAAF Xiamen Tuscany Camp Elite Marathon in Sienna, Italy, which qualified him for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Hendrik Pfeiffer GER 1:02:05 – Dresden 2021

Hendrik is a Tokyo Olympian in the Marathon and will be the German Marathon Champion in 2022. He won team silver at the European Marathon Championship in Munich 2022. In 2024, he became 3rd at the Houston Marathon with a new personal best of 2:07:14h and finished 7th at the London Marathon. He is preparing for the European Championship in Rome, where he will compete in the half marathon. His personal best in the half marathon is 1:02:05h.”

Helio Oliveira Fernandes Gomes POR 1:02:07 – Valencia 2022

Portuguese athlete who started in the 1500 and 3000 track. He was National Champion several times, and remarkably, he took 4th place at the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012. He started to run Road Races a couple of years ago. In 2023, he did his PB in Half with 1:02:07; this year, he did his PB in a Marathon, 2:11:08, at Sevilla, becoming one of the best Portuguese Marathons of the moment.

 

Abdelaziz Merzougui ESP 1:02:48 – Valencia 2018

A specialist in Cross Country, he passed to the asphalt in 2021 when he won the double title of Spanish Champion in the 10K and the Half Marathon.
His marathon debut was in December 2021 at Valencia, with a time of 2:08:52, and in 2022, he set his personal best of 2:08:00, also in Valencia. He is one of the best Marathon Runners in Spain.

Maxim Raileanu

Maxim Raileanu MLD 1:03:09 – Boulogne-Billancourt 2022

Maxim Raileanu was born on October 4, 1994, in Nemteni village; they multiple national and Balkan, Participated in the European Championship in Munich and the World Championship in Budapest, and has a personal record of 1h03’09.

Jiří Homoláč CZ 1:03:23 – Prague 2017

Multiple Czech Champion in 10.000m, half marathon and marathon distance.

Stefan Iulius Gavril ROM 1:04:17 – Ústí nad Labem 2022

Romanian national record holder at 5 km. Tremendous half-marathon progress PB by almost 3 minutes from Ústí nad Labem 2022.

Female pro-athletes 

Lilia Fisikovici MLD 1:10:45 – Ústí nad Labem 2018

Participant of two Olympic Games in Rio and Tokyo. Seven-time record holder of the Moldova.

Nóra Szabó HUN 1:10:59 – Copenhagen 2022

She started running at age 23 to lose weight, and since then, she has been a Hungarian National Record Holder (2h28:25) in the marathon. Placed 17th in the EUR Champion in 2022 and 24th in the World Champion in 2023. 2-time Hungarian 10.000m champion, 2021 and 2023 and national champion in HM (2022)  

Tereza Hrochova CZ 1:12:04 – České Budějovice 2022

Winner of the half marathon in Česke Budejovice 2022, 2nd in the Prague 2023 Half Marathon, and 4th in the half marathon at the Chengdu Universiade 2023, multiple Czech champions at various distances. Next in line to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she earned a spot in Seville with her marathon PB: 2:26:38. EuroHeroes 2024 winner.

 

Nataliya Lehonkova UKR 1:17:56 – Inowroclaw 2014

Winner of Dublin marathon in 2015 2:31:09, and 2017 2:28:57; Los Angeles marathon 2:30:40 in 2016. Winner of PKO Białystok Half Marathon 2023 with 1.12.46 in Poland.

 

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