My personal race

Pavel Ševčík’s personal race. I did Jizerská 50 even after arm amputation, but it was tough

The story of Pavel Ševčík, who was originally from Brno, will move you, but also inspire you and motivate you, just like his sporting achievements…

The story of the winner Nygaard: Jizerka has become the most beautiful race I have ever experienced

You would probably assume, that Andreas Nygaard adores Jizerska 50, because of the fact, that he won the race. It is not the only reason though.…

Iveta Kohoutová’s personal race story is only just beginning

Iveta Kohoutová’s personal race story is slightly unusual, because it is only just beginning; friendly Iveta is only getting ready for it.

The Story of Josef Sklenar: entirely amateur experience

“My toes are frozen, I am in the skiing jacket, which I am wearing over the running one and I am still cold. That is…

The Story of Josef Gabriel: When Beer Served as Fuel

The beginnings of the race were guerrilla-style, I remember it very well. In 1970 I started working at the…

The Story of Marek Tesař: Dangerous White Powder

The year 2006, my first contact with Jizerska 50. My friend Petra took me to see financier Jan Klenor – a visionary…

The Story of Marek Pazderský: Great-granddad Skiing

For a long time I’d been thinking about running a bigger race on old wooden skis with bamboo poles and in an old…

The story of Jan Pirk: Skiing at a tank trail

“There were no tracks at all on the trail, it was snowing, but the snow was melting. A lot of people had given up…

The story of the main referee: They thought they could get through

At the Jizerská, there is almost never cheating, but once the two guys fixed the race…

Story of Karel Vitoušek: The night in a tent

I’m a passionate climber. I take after my mom. She climbed mountains, she comes from Hrubá Skála. I was lucky to see…

The story of Zdeněk Kerner: Never again, yet again!

“No more:” a sentence that now 84-year-old racer Zdeněk Kerner has repeated since the year 1975. So far, this has not…

Story of the wax lotery: Neither Mr. Swix didn’t know, what to do

Every master waxes the skies. Everybody, who understands a bit of a cross – country skiing knows that it is important to wax your skies properly.…

Story of Heidi Suchánková: Four golds and dad´s broken skis

Heidi Suchánková was born in 1959. As a kid, she was supervising her parents to the start of Jizerska. Later in 1982…

Pray for the snow: The story of the cancelled race.

  Jizerska 50 writes many stories. One of them is the story of the cancelled race. This happened in a year,…

Story of Ivana Vojěchová: Victory after 30 years

Ivana Vojtěchová was born in 1948. Her first race of Jizerska 50, was in 1970, where in 30km race, she won with the time 2:44:00. Regarding to the…

The Story of the House in Hrabětice: We are driven by rivalry between neighbours

The house in Hrabětice that is located in the Jizera Mountains, which is inconspicuous at first glance has a presence of an unexpected number of…

The Tereza Kálalová Story: The Jizera 50 is always an unrepeatable experience!

Tereza Kálalová, a sportswoman in body and soul first stood at the starting line of the Jizera 50 at the age of 16. She has in all eleven times…

The story of Milan Fišera: The head of controls at Jizerská 50

 He was the head of controls at Jizerská 50 for 33 years. Obviously, he has so many memories for the race. Today, he's only following the…

The story of Jaroslav Maděra: As a spectator for the first time in 48 years

"In 1971, Gustav Ginzel asked me to help him with serving teacups at Jizerská 50," Jaroslav Maděra started his story. Today, he's already the …

THE JIZERSKÁ 50 IS MY MOST FAVOURITE RACE. I AM GOING TO DO IT FOR THE ELEVENTH TIME, SAYS TOMMY WERNMARK FROM SWEDEN

Although he is a foreigner and has tried many other races, Tommy Wernmark enjoys the Jizerská 50 so much that he has competed there for ten…

The Story of Konstantin Bratchikov: I am into cross-country skiing since I was a kid, but it is not a very popular sport in my Country

Foreign competitors make up 20 percent of the starting roster of the Jizerska 50. In 2019, competitors from 33 countries registered, including the…

The Story of Morten Eide Pedersen: Jizerska 50 has its charm for me

The ambitious Norwegian cross-country skier Morten Eide Pedersen celebrated his 31 birthday in December 2018, two month later he could enter the…

The Story of Jan Došla They sent him among the vacationers. He’s beaten even Řezáč

The two were celebrating in the Finish. Stanislav Řezáč gold, Tomáš Čáslavský silver. But in few minutes everything changed. Jizerska 50, year of…

Story of Michal Čech: Sign in the snow

It is 1974. Before I was fifteen, I was only skiing down-slope. But now my parents bought me running skis. And not just any running skis.…

THE STORY OF JOSEF RAKONCAJ: HIS WOODEN SKI PREMIERE

Josef Rakoncaj was born in 1951. He is one of the most successful Czech mountaineers, a survivor of the 1983 brutal bivouac at 8550 meters on the…

The Story of Květa Jeriová Pecková: What’s your problem, prima donna!

In the early 70’, when I started with cross-country skiing, the popularity of long races grew rapidly. Jizerska 50 was one of the best known races…