{"id":13833,"date":"2026-10-21T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/izvestaj\/prva-trka-jug-trail-serije-istrcana-na-evropskom-pesackom-putu-iznad-nisa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:43:06","slug":"prva-trka-jug-trail-serije-istrcana-na-evropskom-pesackom-putu-iznad-nisa","status":"publish","type":"izvestaj","link":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/izvestaj\/prva-trka-jug-trail-serije-istrcana-na-evropskom-pesackom-putu-iznad-nisa\/","title":{"rendered":"First Race of the Jug Trail Series Run on the European Walking Route Above Ni\u0161"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes just half an hour by car to get to Kalafat, a mountain on the edge of Ni\u0161. On Sunday, 18 October, the first race of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jugtrejlserija\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jug Trail series<\/a> was run there, on a trail that volunteers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/runningclubnis.rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Running Club Ni\u0161<\/a> had cleaned and marked a month earlier, in a joint action with <a href=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/nis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe House Ni\u0161<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trail is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dovrha.rs\/na-planini-znanje-znaci-bezbednost-2-2-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ni\u0161 Transversal<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.era-ewv-ferp.org\/sr\/e-paths\/e7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European walking route E7<\/a>. This route begins at the border between Portugal and Spain and reaches Serbia through Andorra, France, Italy, Slovenia and Hungary. Near Ni\u0161 it descends via Kameni\u010dki Vis, Dabil, the village of Kamenica and \u010cegar to the Ni\u0161 Fortress. It belongs to a network of European walking routes that totals more than 55,000 kilometres. The cleaning and marking of the trail took place in September, during <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.rs\/evropska-nedelja-mobilnosti-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Mobility Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13823\" src=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378-552x368.jpg 552w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A2378.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Runners took on two trails, five and twenty kilometres long, and more than a hundred people lined up at the start. <strong>Filip Jovanovi\u0107<\/strong>, president of the Running Club Ni\u0161, explains why the first race was set exactly here.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cAs the Running Club Ni\u0161 we decided to organise this race near Ni\u0161, symbolically, as a club based primarily in Ni\u0161, to start a story that will begin from here, from the south of Serbia\u201d<\/em>, says Jovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13824\" src=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280-552x368.jpg 552w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3280.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The turnout, he says, was bigger than expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIt is a good indicator that people are interested and that there is a need, considering that this is the only mountain race in Ni\u0161 this year\u201d<\/em>, says Jovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He sees the proximity of the city as part of the reason so many people came, but also as a chance to show what Ni\u0161 has in its immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIt is important that this race is very close to the city itself, you get here in about ten minutes by car. Besides sport and healthy recreation, which is our focus, there is also beautiful nature that we should all promote and nurture together\u201d<\/em>, says Jovanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13825\" src=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311-552x368.jpg 552w, https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1P4A3311.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s twenty-kilometre race, the winner was <strong>Ljiljana Krasi\u0107,<\/strong> for whom Kalafat is home ground, where she regularly trains. She has been a member of the Serbian national team since last year and is winning gold in the masters category for the second year in a row. What pleased her most on Kalafat, she says, was that so many young people came.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIt is never too late to start running and it is never too late to achieve results\u201d<\/em>, says Krasi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The first race is the prelude to the Jug Trail series, which will be held on several trails in the south of Serbia in 2027. The trail stays marked after the race, so you can walk it on foot any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes just half an hour by car to get to Kalafat, a mountain on the edge of Ni\u0161. On Sunday, 18 October, the first race of the Jug Trail series was run there, on a trail that volunteers of the Running Club Ni\u0161 had cleaned and marked a month earlier, in a joint action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13832,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13833","izvestaj","type-izvestaj","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"Grad":"Ni\u0161","Vreme":"20261018","vreme_zavrsetka":"20261018","test_ripiter":null,"Kategorija":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/izvestaj\/13833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/izvestaj"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/izvestaj"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/izvestaj\/13833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13835,"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/izvestaj\/13833\/revisions\/13835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropskakuca.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}