Michal Morvay (born 12 August 1996) is a Slovakian athlete who competes in race walking. In 2013, Morvay won the under-17s 10km in a time of 44:54 at the European Athletics Race Walking Circuit in Lugano. The champion of Slovakia in 2019, in February 2021 Morvay had to have surgery on his knee cartilage but it was at the

Dudinská Päťdesiatka The Dudinská Päťdesiatka or Dudinská 50 (''Fifty kilometres of Dudince'') is an annual racewalking competition held in March on the streets of Dudince, Slovakia. The primary focus of the competition is a men's 50 kilometres race walk, from whic ...

that he sealed his place at the delayed

2020 Tokyo Olympic Games The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

in the

50 kilometres race walk The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the ...

with a personal best time 3:57:59, and he became the champion of Slovakia again. In Tokyo, Morgan finished 41st overall in the 50km race walk event.

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Living people 1996 births Slovak male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Slovakia {{Slovakia-athletics-bio-stub