19th "Turopolje Run" - Velika Gorica Half Marathon 2011

With just two weeks to go until race day, details on this year's Turopoljska trka - an important running event in the Croatian race calendar - have been finally released.

The event takes place in Velika Gorica, a largely modern town and home to the Zagreb Airport, situated about 16 kilometres to the south of Zagreb's city centre on the broad Turopolje plain.

The half marathon consists of three laps through town. The route is flat and fast, but unfortunately it's not particularly attractive. There's not much to see, and each lap includes an out-and-back section on the busy main road to the airport. The inside lanes are reserved for runners, the outside lanes for cars, so that traffic jams form on your right and on your left.

In 2010, the winners were Tamás Kovács of Hungary (1:08:33) and Kenyan-born Lucia Kemani of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:14:23).

 

Country: Croatia

Venue (Map): Velika Gorica (Zagreb 16km, Ljubljana 150km, Graz 200km, Budapest 354km)

Date: 20 March 2011 (Sunday)

Race distance: 21.1km; 5km; 1km ("Family Run")

Start time: 9.00-10.20 (children); 10.35 (21km, 5km); 10.45 (1km)

Start and finish: at "Stadion Radnik" (Ulica Hrvatske Bratske zajednice 80, Velika Gorica)

Entries: online, by e-mail, by post or in person on the day (8.00-10.15)

Entry fees (21km): 100 HRK (ca. 13.50 EUR)

Entry fees (5km): 50 HRK (ca. 6.75 EUR)

Race centre: at the start (8.00-10.15)

You get: T-Shirt, certificate, pasta party (on Saturday at 18.00), a meal and drinks after the race, prize raffle

Prizes (21km): prize money to the first 5 M/F; medals and sponsor prizes to the first 3 in each category

Prizes (5km): medals to the first 3 in each category; sponsor prizes

Showers and changing facilities: Stadion Radnik

Award ceremony: 12.45 (children), 13.30 (5km), 14.00 (21km)

Prize raffle: after the award ceremony

Number of finishers 2010: 225 (21km), 98 (5km)

Event website (in Croatian): www.mkvg.hr

 

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