České Budějovice Half Marathon

The České Budějovice Half Marathon is an annual half marathon race which takes place in early June in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Known as the Mattoni České Budějovice Half Marathon, it is a part of RunCzech running circuit.

České Budějovice Half Marathon
DateJune
LocationČeské Budějovice, Czech Republic
Event typeRoad
DistanceHalf marathon
Primary sponsorMattoni 1873
Established2012
Course recordsMen:
 Daniel Chebii (KEN) 59:49
Women:
 Agnes Barsosio (ETH) 1:09:53
Official siteOfficial website

The course winds through České Budějovice city centre and along the Vltava river. The inaugural edition of the event was held in 2012. In 2013, almost 2 000 runners participated in the race.

The course records are held by Daniel Chebii and Agnes Barsosio. In 2012, České Budějovice was only the second race in the Czech Republic in which a half marathon was completed below the one-hour mark.[1]

Past winners

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Key:   Course record

Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
2012   Daniel Chebii (KEN) 59:49   Tadelech Bekele (ETH) 1:10:54
2013   Tamirat Tola (ETH) 1:02:04   Hurtesa Khedija (ETH) 1:12:11
2014   Geoffrey Kamworor (KEN) 1:00:09   Betelhem Moges (ETH) 1:12:31
2015   Abraham Cheroben (KEN) 1:01:24   Rose Chelimo (KEN) 1:12:01
2016   Barselius Kipyego (KEN) 1:00:30   Ashete Bekere (ETH) 1:10:40
2017   Justus Kangogo (KEN) 1:02:47   Agnes Barsosio (ETH) 1:09:53
2018   Luke Traynor (GBR) 1:03:42   Lilia Fisikovici (MDA) 1:13:20
2019   Yassine Rachik (ITA) 1:03:02   Lilia Fisikovici (MDA) 1:13:29
2020 Did not hed
2021
2022
2023   Tomasz Grycko (POL) 1:04:01   Militsa Mircheva (BUL) 1:14:56
2024   Sebastian Hendel (GER) 1:03:38   Maryna Nemchenko (UKR) 1:11:26

References

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  1. ^ All-time men's best half-marathon. All-time Athletics. Retrieved on 12 January 2014.
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