6th Military March Czech Republic

The 6th annual Military March took place on 7th of May 2016 in the Lednice-Valtice area, that provided the most beautiful scenery in the history of the march. The event was held under auspices of Michal HAŠEK – governor of Southmoravia Region. The date for next year’s march has been set for 6th of May 2017.

Please have a look at the video from Marcela Alexa shot on the 25km route.

The routes were 12 (family route), 20, 25, 30, 33 and 40 km. All the routes had minimal cant and the weather was excellent this year.

The amount of participants among the Czech Army and Czech Police has evened out. We also enjoyed seeing participants from the Fire rescue service, Czech Customs, The Prison Service of the Czech Reublic and many civilians. We also welcomed participants from abroad – Austria, Estonia, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and Ukrain.

We would like to express thanks to all participants for following the guidelines and rules of the march and therefore preventing any damage and polution of the beautiful nature environment that is included in the NATURA 2000 program and UNESCO. We would also like to thank all the people and authorities that supported the march and provided all necessary approvals.

The participants could pick up their medals in the finish as usual, together with the diploma or only commerotative diploma. The leaders of 3 biggest groups obtained trophies in the “LARGEST GROUP” category. The winning team was „Adéla“ with 41 members, second place was taken by the group „Policejní pochodová skupina Prostějov“ with 39 members and the group „VŠMT“ ended up third with 35 members.

Top 5 on the 40 km route:

Fun facts:
Youngest member this year has not been born yet! Lucie was still in her mom´s belly at 13 weeks of gestational age. The youngest – born – participant was Natalie, born in January 2016. The oldest participant was Mr. Mart from Estonia who was born in 1941. We saw 69 participants returning for the 6th year in the row, making them the most loyal! Some participants attended in the historical uniforms of Czech soldiers fighting in England or the uniforms from so called First republic. This year the organizers supported by charity donation “Foundation of policemen and firemen” and “Help for Kosa” and the remainder of the budget – 735 EUR – was returned to the participants in the form of drink vouchers in the camp.

Did you know?
- the tape or eco-friendly paint covered 53,4 km of routes,
- even though the Lednice-Valtice area is the most visited sight of the South Moravian region, the organizers gathered the least amount of trash during the usual cleaning of the route after,
- we always clean the area of the march from the trash and litter left behind by anyone, not only the participants,
- the color used is eco-friendly and non-irritating,
- the staff contained 74 people,
- the realization and preparation of the march involved 163 people including suppliers,
- we have received/answered and sent over 2350 emails,
- there were 15 marshalls constatly on the routes among the participants,
- 2 months after the March the preparation for next year’s march begins.