Main prize goes to Poland

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23. 8. 2017 - Roman Ordelt

The traditional Photo competition was announced at the occasion of the 46th Barum Czech Rally Zlín 2016. Prizes for the Photo competition were donated by companies FOKAPO, print of photo books and calendars, RALLY MODELS – Antonín Babík, JNK Studio Zlín – production and distribution of videotapes and company ALITRON CZ, s.r.o. gave an annual subscription of a specialized motor-sport magazine RALLY. While in 2015 all the prices remained in Czech Republic after the jury's verdict, this year authors were awarded from Poland, the main prize, Hungary, third place and one prize goes to Austria. Motor-sport photographer Marcin Rybak from Łódź, Poland, became the absolute winner.

The Auto-club Barum Zlín in cooperation with agency ZLIN PRESS production announced a Photo competition in joint category for professional photographers and amateurs and that was digital photography. The expert jury was composed of Miloslav Regner (Clerk of Barum Czech Rally Zlín), Roman Ordelt (ZLIN PRESS production), Ing. Jan Regner (deputy of the Clerk of the Course) and 12 members of international jury awarded according to the regulations three financial bonuses and five more prices.

'We were very pleased with the incredible interest, almost three hundred photographers send us nearly one thousand photos. It wasn't easy to choose the best ones from such huge amount of great photos. Last year we only appraised work of Czech authors, this year, we received many wonderful photos from foreign photographers. This shows that the wave of popularity of our Photo competition goes past our borders. We were also satisfied with the quality of submitted photos and our international jury of many great figures of rally sport agreed with us,' Miloslav Regner said, chairman of jury and Clerk of Barum Czech Rally Zlín.

The international jury was made up by Sindre Furuseth (Norway, driver), Suguru Kawana (Japan, driver), Ursula Mayrhofer (Austria, co-driver), Ivo Novák (Czech Republic, photographer), Apostolis Palatos (Greece, journalist), Florent Peronnet (France, team manager), Sergej Remennik (Russia, driver), Marko Sivak (Croatia, photographer), Ekaterina Stratijeva (Bulgaria, driver), Hernan Vargas Peńa (Paraguay, co-driver), Sepp Wiegand (Germany, driver) and Paolo Zanini (Italy, co-driver).

It's gratifying to see such positive response among motor-sport fans which consequently pushes the quality of submitted photos. Total of 986 photos by 254 authors were submitted to the Photo competition 2016. Aside from the three top prizes, jury awarded five more.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY:
1st place Marcin Rybak, Poland
Łódź – 1 000 CZK

2nd place Tomáš Kaňa
Olomouc – 600 CZK

3rd place Gergely Makai, Hungary
Budapest – 400 CZK

Authors of recognized photos:
Radek Caga, Trnávka
Jan Fišer, Nové Strašecí
Lukáš Staněk, Ostrava
Marek Talaš, Napajedla
Daniel Fessl, Scharnstein, Austria

We congratulate to all awarded authors and we are much looking forward to more great photos that would arrive for the new Photo competition for the 47th Barum Czech Rally Zlín 2017!