Moira Stewartová
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| Born | 9 June 1995 Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sport | Long-distance running |
Moira Stewartová (born 9 June 1995) is a Czech long-distance runner. She is the Czech national record holder in the women's marathon, having run 2:23:44 in Valencia in 2024.
Career
[edit]Stewartová won the women's race at the Cross della Vallagarina held in Italy both in 2019 and in 2020.[1][2]
In 2019, she competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She finished in 70th place.[3] In the same year, she also competed in the women's event at the 2019 European 10,000m Cup held in London, United Kingdom, where she set the second-fastest Czech time at that distance: 32:57.51.[4] In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland, finishing in 34th with a time of 1:11:08.[5]
Stewartová is the Czech national record holder of the women's marathon. After completing the 2023 Valencia Marathon in Spain with a record time of 2:25:36, she improved her time at the same race in 2024 to 2:23:44 as she finished ninth. In spite of her new national record, she was still 14 seconds short of the qualification time for the following 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[6]
Stewartová made her Olympic debut in 2024, placing 66th in the women's marathon after finishing in a time of 2:38:07 on the Paris course.[7]
In April 2025, Stewartová missed the inaugural European Running Championships in Belgium due to a knee injury interfering with her training regime.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Stewartová was born on 9 June 1995 in Prague.[9] Her parents are also runners, Czech mother Miriam and Scottish father Eddie Stewart met during a competition in Bolzano, Italy.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Rondelli, Giorgio (21 January 2019). "Cross della Vallagarina: italiani battuti, ma c'è una giovane sorpresa". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ Villa, Stefano (19 January 2020). "Atletica, Cesare Maestri e Stewartova vincono il Cross della Vallagarina 2020". Oasport.it (in Italian). Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Senior women's race" (PDF). 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Stewartová zaběhla druhou nejlepší desítku české historie". idnes.cz (in Czech). 7 July 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Women's Half Marathon" (PDF). 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Stewartová znovu vylepšila české maratonské maximum, ve Valencii doběhla devátá v čase 2:23:44". Czech Radio (in Czech). 1 December 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Hassanová napodobila Zátopka, v Paříži k bronzům přidala zlato z maratonu". idnes.cz (in Czech). 11 August 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Tři muži a Hrochová. Na premiérové ME na silnici nejede rekordmanka Stewartová". idnes.cz (in Czech). 31 March 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
- ^ "Moira Stewartová" (in Czech). Czech Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Skotský běžec o životě v Česku i incidentu s Rangers: Byl jsem v šoku". Blesk.cz (in Czech). 21 April 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
External links
[edit]- Moira Stewartová at World Athletics
- Moira Stewartová at ARRS
- Moira Stewartová at Olympics.com
- Moira Stewartová at the Czech Olympic Committee (in Czech)
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Prague
- Czech female middle-distance runners
- Czech female long-distance runners
- Czech female cross country runners
- Czech Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Czech sportswomen
- Czech people of Scottish descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for the Czech Republic
- Czech female marathon runners