At Franz Schuster-Straße 1-3 in Schwechat, the Lidl Österreich Schullauf Schwechat gathers schoolchildren for a short-distance race day in early autumn. It is organized by Lidl Österreich and is part of Austria’s school running series, so the field is built around classes rather than adult race categories.
The youngest primary-school pupils run 660 metres, older primary pupils run 1,000 metres, lower-school groups run 1,650 metres, and upper-school races stretch to 2,200 metres for girls and 3,300 metres for boys. The event usually draws roughly 1,001 to 3,000 participants, and the wider series ends with a finale in Traun after a season that has run for at least 27 editions.