Boom of road races in the Czech Republic - sport for all or luxury amusement?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://conference.fsps.muni.cz/media/3250415/proceedings-12th-conference.pdf" target="_blank" >https://conference.fsps.muni.cz/media/3250415/proceedings-12th-conference.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9631-2020-33" target="_blank" >10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9631-2020-33</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Boom of road races in the Czech Republic - sport for all or luxury amusement?

Original language description

Nowadays, similar to worldwide trends, running has become very popular in the Czech Republic. Since the mid of 1990s, the business sector has become very active in this area. Private companies organise many road races for the public, including participation of top level runners (i.e. Prague International Marathon). In 2016, within the framework of the international project IRNIST, we realised an empirical descriptive study of the Mattoni 1/2 Marathon in Ústí nad Labem, a middle size town. The IRNIST questionnaire was used. Analysing data on 491 runners (of 2,238 runners finished the race) we found that concerning socio-economic status of respondents, 56.9% of runners have a university education, one third advanced secondary education; and 63% earn more than the average wage. Participant were able to spend quite a lot of money for participation costs. These results raise the issue if the privatization and commercialization of running for the masses does not cause limit for sport participation for all.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

PROCEEDINGS of the 12th international konference on kinanthropology „Sport and Quality of Life&quot;

ISBN

978-80-210-9631-8

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

254-261

Publisher name

Masaryk University Press

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Nov 7, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000618047200033