There was no need to cheer on a trellis of people on the sidewalks. Each and every one of the more than 800 runners was excited for the Waidhofen city run and, after a two-year Corona break, couldn’t wait for the starting signal last weekend.
Even the winning times in the children’s and schoolchildren’s runs over shortened distances gave the organizers from Sportunion hope for strong lap times in the main run. They were not disappointed by the women: Lucia Resch from LCU Euratsfeld won the race on the 1,525 meter long city run (6.1 km), which had to be completed four times, after 23:40 minutes with a respectful distance from Julia Mühlbacher and Trix Wimmer. The main competition for men was not for the faint-hearted. With brisk 3:10 minute kilometer times, the lead soon thinned out. A group of six runners had already pulled away from the field in the first lap. The six-pack determined the pace and events. On the climb up the Badberg, Sebastian Fuchs (SIG Harreither) grabbed the opportunity when his five fellow breakaways gave in to the trot of the group for a moment. “At the beginning of the last lap I thought I’d try the Badberg,” Fuchs recalled the situation when he took heart and picked up the pace. Fuchs escaped from his escape companions, tore open a hole. He managed to shake his pursuers off his heels the rest of the way. When Fuchs touched the finish line with his hip after 19:31 minutes, Christoph Pölzgutter sprinted down three seconds behind Denis Kronsteiner (both Waidhofen) in the fight for the podium.
Source: Nachrichten
