At the end of 1974, based on the idea of three athletes (Dezső Bangha, Gyula Herczeg and István Jóny), a report appeared that the following year, April 4, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, a running competition between Komárno and Komárom was being considered. The ideas were organized by Endre Rubin, President of the Athletics Department of MTK-VM, and the District Committee of the Czechoslovak Association of Physical Education in Komárno, on the Czechoslovak side. The first run took place in 1975. 65 Hungarian and 18 Czechoslovak runners took part in the start of the 8,200-meter-long track at Lenin's Stadium in Komárom.