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Prague Half-Marathon Gets IAAF Gold Label Tag
Prague International Marathon Receives the Prestigious IAAF Gold Label
for its Hervis Prague Half Marathon
Prague, November 4th, 2009: Prague International Marathon spol. s.r.o. (“PIM”) has
announced today that it has received the very prestigious IAAF Road Race Gold Label
2010 for the Hervis Prague Half Marathon, one of the three main races in the PIM Running
Circuit. The receipt of the IAAF Gold Label is the ultimate accolade for any road race, and
only a very few races worldwide have such recognition.
PIM is already one of the few race organisers that already holds an IAAF Silver Label for
each of its main races; the Hervis Prague Half Marathon, the Volkswagen Prague
Marathon and the METRO Men’s Race 10km (a part of the TESCO Prague Grand
Prix), and this latest award means that at today’s date PIM is the only race organiser in the
world to hold such a group of awards. This latest IAAF Gold Label confirms PIMs place on
the leader-board of the top race organisers in the world and is a sign that the City of Prague
is well and truly one of the world’s leading sporting cities.
Talking about the award, Carlo Capalbo, the President of PIM, said:
“It fills us with enormous pride to have received the coveted IAAF Gold Label for one of our
races. There is so much that goes on behind the scenes of a race and we are honoured that
the IAAF has taken note, not only of the organisation of the Hervis Half Marathon itself,
but also of the safety procedures, planning and logistics that comes with it. When I look
back at the last 15 years, I’m amazed to see how the PIM Running Circuit has grown and
improved and our first Gold Label is a very appreciated testament to the fruits of all of our
efforts.”
The IAAF Gold Label is attributed to races that satisfy a number of important criteria
concerning the organizational standard of the race, course measurement, safety and medical
standards and media services. Most important for the awarding of a Gold Label is the
number of elite athletes involved in the race and the level of international TV coverage, but
there is also the need for a race to have a really great atmosphere, something that is not
easily measured but that can certainly be said of the PIM Running Circuit events.
This year’s Hervis Half Marathon will take place on the 27th of March, 2010 and entries are
now open. For more information, go to www.praguemarathon.com.
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