RunCzech announcement for Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon and Volkswagen Prague Marathon 2020

Following restrictive measures imposed by the Czech Government due to the spreading of coronavirus in the country and worldwide RunCzech has announced that the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon (which is also a part of SuperHalfs running series) will not happen on 28 March 2020 as planned.

The health of the participants is a priority now.

In recent days, RunCzech management has been intensively discussing an alternative date of the race with everybody involved in the organisation of the race – City Hall of Prague, international organizations, television, the Czech Athletic Federation and further institutions, and have commonly found a new date replacing the March event. Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon 2020 is now scheduled to take place on Sunday morning, 6 September 2020. The time and the place of the start will be confirmed.

All runners registered for the race do not have to report or confirm their participation in the postponed race. All registrations will be automatically transferred to a new date (6 September 2020) together with the additional services such as t-shirts or medal engravings.

Those registered runners who may not be able to participate in the postponed race this year can change their valid entry ownership to another person or to defer their entry to the 2021 Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon (scheduled for 27 March 2021). Both options are possible to do without any additional cost until the end of July.

Runners registered in SuperHalfs running series will receive additional communication.

Registered participants will receive further information and more details about the race by e-mail in the upcoming two weeks.

Furthermore, considering the actual situation the RunCzech organizers have been forced to postpone the next RunCzech race 2020 – the Volkswagen Prague Marathon, which was scheduled for 3 May 2020 and expected about 50% of the foreign participants. The race will be moved to a later month this year. All accompanying events of the Volkswagen Marathon Weekend will also be postponed. The new autumn date will be communicated to all participants and everybody involved within two upcoming weeks, after the agreement with all responsible authorities. 

“We know how challenging this situation is for the runners who have been training hard to prepare for the race. Nevertheless the health of our participants, volunteers, spectators, partners and suppliers is the priority. We keep preparing the race in the best possible way and look forward to welcoming our runners at the start line in September. We invite people to behave responsibly and follow the recommendations of the local responsible authorities to overcome this situation as soon as possible. Finally, to stay physically and morally fit, we should keep training, and support each other,” – Vaclav Skrivanek, the RunCzech race director says.