The Prague Grand Prix is an annual

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event which takes place in September in

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. It is a 10-kilometre race organised in the attractive surroundings of Prague city centre during evening twilight. The race was introduced in 1997 as the O₂ Prague Grand Prix, and is a part of the RunCzech running circuit. The event holds

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status. The new course was introduced in 2013 and course records are held by Kenya's

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and

Joyciline Jepkosgei Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the marathon. She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with h ...

.Prague International Marathon
Retrieved on 2016-09-10.

Past winners

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References

External links

Prague Grand Prix official website
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