International Half Marathon race in Budapest

Hungarian athletes Anikó Kálovics and Tamás Kovács won the women’s and the men’s race, respectively, at the 26th Nike Budapest International Half Marathon race in the Hungarian capital this Sunday. The field included almost 1,500 foreign runners.

Tamás Kovács from Veszprém, mid-western Hungary took one hour, six minutes and three seconds to complete the distance of 21 kilometers on the streets of Budapest and won the men’s competition ahead of two other Hungarians.

In the women’s competition, Anikó Kálovics from Szombathely, western Hungary clocked one hour, fifteen minutes and four seconds to cross the finish line before two of her compatriots.

The race began in the City Park and followed a course leading through the center of Budapest, the famous Andrassy Boulevard and the Chain Bridge, including the Buda Castle panorama from the bank of the river Danube and the panorama of Pest, as well as Europe’s second largest Parliament building before the field of participants from some 40 countries returned to the finish in the City Park.