Friday 8 November 2024

Görlitz as seen from Zgorzelec (Copyright © 2013 Hendrik Böttger / runinternational.eu)

 

The Fackellauf (‘Torch Run’), or Bieg przy Pochodniach in Polish, is a cross-border running event held annually in the historic city of Görlitz-Zgorzelec.

It attracts approximately 200 runners from both sides of the Lausitzer Neiße river (Polish: Nysa Łużycka) which cuts the city in two—Görlitz in Germany and Zgorzelec in Poland.

Two race distances are available:

  • ca. 3.9km (one lap)
  • ca. 7.8km (two laps)

Starting at the Altstadtbrücke (Most Staromiejski), a footbridge that connects the two parts of the city, participants run along the Polish and the German bank of the river, crossing two torch-lit bridges.

 

Map of the venue:

 

18. Fackellauf "Heinz Anders":

Date:

  • 8 November 2024 (Friday)

Start time and race distance:

  • 18.30: 7.8km
  • 18.40: 3.9km

Race information:

 

Number of finishers:

  3.9km
7.8km
2023 83 100

 

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