While the women’s champion of the Ústí Half Marathon – local star Tereza Hrochová – pushed through a blistering pace from roughly the seventh kilometer, battling both the wind and the grueling solitude of running alone, the men’s lead pack eschewed a fast time for a tactical waiting game. They bided their time until German runner Simon Boch […]
RunCzech launched the EuroHeroes series in 2018 in cooperation with European Athletics, and a year later, the initiative was named European Athletics’ Running Project of the Year. The goal of EuroHeroes is to support and raise the profile of elite European runners; this year—the series’ fifth edition—saw the participation of 47 runners representing 13 nationalities. The […]
Following the final of four points-bearing half marathons in the EuroHeroes 2026 series – the September Mattoni Half Marathon Ústí nad Labem – the verdict is in. The winners of a tightly contested fifth edition of the project aimed at supporting and developing European runners are 32-year-old Spanish native Jorge Blanco and his compatriot Carolina Robles, […]
