COMPELLING TALKS

In the photo - Piotr Hercog

The  31st International Sport and Outdoor Equipment Fair KIELCE SPORT-EXPO will feature the first-time RUN EXPO. Intriguing guests make events' greatest advantage. RUN EXPO with the first-ever foRUN - sieBIEGA is targeted at the always-increasing group of running and jogging aficionados. On 13 February 2016 Targi Kielce will host the keen runners.

Piotr Hercog - Since 2010 he has specialised in mountain ultra runs. He is also one of Poland's best ultra-runners as well as one of the leading ultra-runners in Europe. He has participated in dozens of multidisciplinary competitions in Poland and abroad. He has marked his presence in AbuDhabi Adventure Challenge, Adventure Race World Championship, the AR Series.

RAFAŁ BIELAWA and KAMIL KLICH  became famous owing to their successful attempt to run Main Beskidy Trace (over 500 km long and 50,000 road elevations) without external help in less than 151 hours.

MATTHEW JASIŃSKI - a blogger and a runner. He is one of the most avid proponents of this sport in Poland, he was the editor in chief of TreningBiegacza.pl the web-site. Now he runs a motivational blog TrenerBiegania.pl, which records hundreds of thousands of users' hits.

NATALIA TOMASIAK - a leading ultra runner. She has participated in many expeditions in the world's wild corners  (Arctics, Lapland, the Caucasus), she is also a blogger (gorskistyl.pl). In 2014's she won the ultra marathon (66 km) at Krynica's Running Festival.

ALEXANDRA MĄDZIK  originally comes from Kielce. She has been the second woman from Polish to comlplete all world's major street marathons in the World Majors Marathon series (Tokyo, Boston, London, New York, Berlin and Chicago). She is an amateur, though very professional when it comes to this excellent hobby.