Half Marathon World Record Not Beaten And Czech Soccer Team Lost

25 March 2007, 15:57 - Sport
The organizers of Prague International Marathon – Half marathon that took place in Prague's streets yesterday promised the top runners will try to beat world record in this street half marathon (slightly over 21 kms), which is 58min 35sec.

However, no one made under one hour. The winner is Patrick Ivuti from Kenya with his time 1:01:00. This was a track record, but not his personal, which is 59:31.

The weather during the race that started on the Charles bridge yesterday just in noon was far from ideal. Quite strong wind and low temperature made it hard work for the runners.

Almost four thousand runners made it under 3 hours. And almost 6 thousand runners – men and women – participated on the event.

Sport lovers can now look forward to Marathon weekend with full marathon and further shorter races on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May 2007.

Czech national soccer team was beaten by Germans in the yesterday's match in Prague's Toyota Arena in Letna 1 to 2. The match was one of the qualification into the European championships next year. Czech team occupies second position in the qualification group.