Kosice Marathon – NEW VICTORY PLINTHS TO BE INSTALLED

Looking back at marathon-related events during 2015, we cannot leave Friday, 2nd January unremarked, the day on which Arpád Račko departed from us.

It was in memory and honour of the creator of the Marathoner statue that motifs from his work were incorporated into the logo for KPM 2015.

Later everyone was pleased to hear that the proceeds of public fundraising had enabled several granite blocks to be purchased and transported to Košice, from which new victory plinths will be made and installed below Račko‘s statue, to bear the names of future KPM winners.

IN HIS FATHER‘S FOOTSTEPS

Only two men on this planet have been victorious on both historical marathon courses in Boston and Košice, namely the Swede Gösta Leandersson and the Belgian Aurèle
Vandendriessche.

It was the latter in particular, 50 years after his KPM victory, who was remembered with honour in the project called “In the Tracks of the Marathon Legends”.

This now 83-year-old champion was creditably represented by his oldest son Tony, who wasted no time in setting out on the course, just confirming that love of the marathon is inherited in many families.

Brano Koniar
race director