Stošek arrived in the Turkish city of Sakarya near Istanbul in excellent shape. Last weekend he won the prestigious marathon on the Italian island of Elba and was one of the favorites even today. He lost two and a half minutes to the victorious Páez, he lost the battle for silver after almost four and a half hours in the saddle by 15 seconds with the Portuguese Tiag Ferreira.
“Of course I’m very happy, it was only my second world marathon championship. Although I admit that the ambitions were even higher, but on the other hand it was not better today and I’m glad I brought it to the medal. So for me a great race “I didn’t make a mistake, I was everywhere and I gave my maximum. The bronze is great, the world championship is once a year and it all has to come together in one day,” Stošek told the mtbs.cz server.
“Martin’s result is a complete bomb, I’m very happy for it. It’s unbelievable what he did, and from the point of view of our team manager it’s great – in two years of existence we have two medals from the World Cup,” rejoiced Hynek from the bronze teammate from Future Cycling Northwave.
But he admitted that he expected more of himself. “Before the start, I thought that I would take it into the top five. Emotionally, the race of the first two laps was great, but in the last one I realized … I was also surprised that only the Spaniard Valero and no one else overtook me. in the end it was a march of a fallen warrior, I was completely on the shells … But apparently the others were in a similar situation, the heat and humidity are probably to blame, it was also demanding in profile, still up and down, and quite steep hills. , so it sucked enough energy out of a person, “Hynek described.
The women’s race was dominated by the Swiss Ramona Forchini, the best of the Czechs was the eleventh Karla Štěpánová. Men covered 110 kilometers, women 80.9.
Of the previous Czech medalists, Kulhavý, the Olympic cross country winner from London, won marathon gold in 2014 and was second before that, Hynek has silver and two bronzes. Tereza Huříková also finished third six years ago.
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