Charles University Rector awards Rector’s Cup to University Marathon winners












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            * Charles University Rector awards Rector’s Cup to University Marathon winners
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            Prague, May 24, 2011

            At yesterday’s gala ceremony held by the Prague International Marathon, the Charles Univer
            Václav Hampl awarded the Rector’s Cup to students from the University of Szeged who became
            of the University Marathon – the Rector’s Cup Run.

             “Sport plays an important part in the life of our university. I take my hat off to all th
            who took part in this year’s University Marathon. I extend my thanks to all for their perf
            enthusiasm,” the Charles University Rector Prof. Václav Hampl said. The Charles University

            Run took place as part of the great marathon weekend on Sunday May 8, 2011. The Hungarian 
            themselves “Naughty Holiday of Szeged” won the student relay race of the University Marath

            Technical University’s relay team came second and a team from the Faculty of Physical Educ
            in Prague came third.
            The bronze “Srdcaři” team, as the students from the Faculty of Physical Education and Spor

            themselves, said the following about their performance: “We joined the race with the inten
            course. But we are happy with the third place because, in the end, there was some tough co
            all we are happy with the time. We ran faster by some two minutes than we had expected.”

            The winning Hungarian relay team finished in 2:35:13, the team from the Open Informatics p
            the Faculty of Electrical Engineering took silver with 2:46:59, and the “Srdcaři” team fro
            Physical Education and Sport (with the overall time of 2:48:02) came third one minute behi

            Four-member teams of university students aged 18–26 registered for the University Marathon
            teams from many universities from across the Czech Republic and from abroad competed in th
            Charles University, other participants came from Palacký University Olomouc, the Technical

            Liberec and Masaryk University in Brno. Thirty-eight teams completed the race.
            The Rector’s Cup Run – photo report [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-11047.html"]
            Please contact us for print-quality photographs from the award ceremony.

            More information on the University Marathon:
            http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-10669.html [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-10669.html "]
            http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-10942.html [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.cz/iforum-10942.html"]

            http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORUM-10939.html [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.cz/iforum-10939.html"]
            Mgr. Václav Hájek
            Charles University Press Officer

            Department of External Relations
            Charles University
            tel: +420 224 491 248

            e-mail: pr@cuni.cz [ URL "mailto:pr@cuni.cz"]