Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	CZE
Nocname:	Czech Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Website:
Location:	Atlanta
Competitors:	115 (76 men and 39 women)
Sports:	17
Flagbearer:	Václav Chalupa (opening) Jan Železný (closing)
Rank:	17
Gold:	4
Silver:	3
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1996
See also:	(1900–1912) (1920–1992)

The Czech Republic competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. It was the first Summer Games since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and so the Czech Republic and Slovakia competed as independent teams. 115 competitors, 76 men and 39 women, took part in 110 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medalists

The following Czech competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	1	0	2	3
Canoeing	3	2	0	5
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Tennis	0	1	1	2
Total	style=background:gold	4	style=background:silver	3	style=background:#C96	4	11

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Medals by day
Day	Date				Total
7	July 26	0	0	1	1
8	July 27	1	1	0	2
9	July 28	0	1	0	1
12	July 31	0	0	1	1
13	August 1	0	0	1	1
14	August 2	0	0	1	1
15	August 3	2	1	0	3
16	August 4	1	0	0	1
Total		style=background:gold	4	style=background:silver	3	style=background:#C96	4	11

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Medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Male	bgcolor=F7F6A8	3	bgcolor=DCE5E5	2	bgcolor=FFDAB9	2	7	63.63%
Female	bgcolor=F7F6A8	1	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	2	4	36.36%
Mixed	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Total	style=background:gold	4	style=background:silver	3	style=background:#C96	4	11	100%

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Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Martin Doktor	Canoeing	2	0	0	2
Jana Novotná	Tennis	0	1	1	2

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
	14	9	23
	4	0	4
	17	8	25
	4	2	6
	1	0	1
	1	3	4
	2	2	4
	3	2	5
	2	0	2
	14	3	17
	3	7	10
	2	1	3
	2	2	4
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	3	0	3
Total	76	39	115

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat			Quarterfinal			Semifinal			Final
		Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank
Pavel Soukup	800 m	1:47.67	3	32	colspan=5
Tomáš Dvořák	110 m hurdles	13.78	6	33	colspan=8
Jiří Malysa	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:25:13	25
Tomáš Kratochvíl	1:30:11	48
Hubert Sonnek	1:32:42	52
Miloš Holuša	align=left rowspan=2	50 km walk	4:03:16	27
Hubert Sonnek

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Tomáš Janků	High jump	2.28	13 Q	2.25	14
Milan Gombala	Long jump	7.88	20	colspan=2
Miroslav Menc	Shot put	18.69	21	colspan=2
Marek Bílek	Discus throw	59.86	20	colspan=2
Pavel Sedláček	Hammer throw	73.98	20	colspan=2
Jan Železný	Javelin throw	86.52	2 Q	88.16

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event											Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Tomáš Dvořák	style=font-size:95%	Result	10.64	7.60	15.82	1.98	48.29	13.79	46.28	4.70	70.16	4:31.25	8664
style=font-size:95%	Points	942	960	840	785	895	1002	793	819	892	736
align=left rowspan=2	Robert Změlík	style=font-size:95%	Result	10.83	7.64	13.53	1.95	49.55	14.17	43.44	5.40	67.20	4:38.45	8422	7
style=font-size:95%	Points	899	970	700	758	835	953	735	1035	847	690
align=left rowspan=2	Kamil Damašek	style=font-size:95%	Result	10.86	7.22	15.51	2.01	47.35	14.94	42.66	4.90	55.84	4:25.86	8229	16
style=font-size:95%	Points	892	866	821	813	941	857	719	880	675	765

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat			Quarterfinal			Semifinal			Final
		Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank	Overall	Time	Rank
Hana Benešová	align=left rowspan=3	400 m	52.28	5	22 q	51.30	5	13	colspan=5
Helena Fuchsová	51.71	2 Q	9	51.70	5	20	colspan=5
Naděžda Koštovalová	53.03	4 Q	35	53.21	8	31	colspan=5
Ludmila Formanová	800 m	1:59.37	3	7 q	1:59.28	5	12	colspan=2
Naděžda Koštovalová Ludmila Formanová Helena Fuchsová Hana Benešová	4 × 400 m relay	3:26.82	5	7 q	3:26.99	7

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Zuzana Kováčiková	High jump	1.93	13 q	1.93	11
Šárka Kašpárková	Triple jump	14.42	7 Q	14.98
Zdeňka Šilhavá	align=left rowspan=2	Discus throw	59.24	19	colspan=2
Alice Matějková	60.72	15	colspan=2
Nikola Tomečková	Javelin throw	55.02	25

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jaroslav Konečný	Lightweight	W 16–6	L 6–20	9
Pavol Polakovič	Light middleweight	W 8–1	L 5–12	9
Ľudovít Plachetka	Middleweight	W 20–4	L 4–4	9
Petr Horáček	Super heavyweight	L RSC	17

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Result
		Time	Points	Total	Time	Points	Total	Total	Rank
Lukáš Pollert	align=left rowspan=2	Men's C-1	151.17	0	151.17	158.25	20	178.25	151.17
Pavel Janda	167.71 10	10	177.91	185.55	55	240.55	177.91	20
Miroslav Šimek Jiří Rohan	align=left rowspan=2	Men's C-2	161.77	70	231.77	160.16	0	160.16	160.16
Petr Štercl Pavel Štercl	163.45	5	168.45	179.53	160	339.53	168.45	6
Luboš Hilgert	align=left rowspan=2	Men's K-1	146.10	5	151.10	146.99	50	196.99	151.10	18
Jiří Prskavec	182.29	115	297.29	151.15	0	151.15	151.15	19
Štěpánka Hilgertová	Women's K-1	164.49	5	169.49	166.97	5	171.97	169.49
Marcela Sadilová	181.22	55	236.22	174.47	0	174.47	174.47	9
Irena Pavelková	184.45	55	239.45	166.89	15	181.89	181.89	16

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Martin Doktor	C-1 500 m	1:52.907	1 F	1:49.934
C-1 1000 m	4:19.918	1 F	3:54.418
align=left rowspan=2	Pavel Bednář Petr Fuksa	C-2 500 m	1:47.955	8 R	1:50.480	3 SF	1:44.902	6	colspan=2
C-2 1000 m	4:25.295	8 SF	3:51.576	5	colspan=2
Jiří Polívka Karel Leština	K-2 500 m	1:34.107	6 R	1:37.119	2 SF	1:32.517	7	colspan=2
Petr Hruška René Kučera	K-2 1000 m	3:42.682	4 R	3:35.216	3 SF	3:21.384	7	colspan=2
Karel Leština Pavel Mráz Martin Otáhal Jiří Polívka	K-4 1000 m	3:19.868	7 SF	3:06.611	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pavlína Jobánková	K-1 500 m	2:07.811	8 R	2:12.219	7	colspan=4
Jitka Janáčková Pavlína Jobánková	K-2 500 m	1:51.346	6 R	1:55.377	3 SF	1:49.125	7	colspan=2
Jitka Janáčková Kateřina Heková Kateřina Hluchá Milena Pergnerová	K-4 500 m	1:44.707	7 SF	1:42.216	5

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Road

Men

Track

Sprint

Mountain bike

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	align=left rowspan=2	Men's cross-country	2:42:43	24
Pavel Camrda	2:49:09	33
Kateřina Neumannová	align=left rowspan=2	Women's cross-country	2:04:03	18
Kateřina Hanušová	2:04:05	19

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. One male fencer represented the Czech Republic in 1996.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Women

Rhythmic

Individual

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries										Semifinal										Final
		Apparatus								Total	Apparatus								Total	Apparatus								Total
		Rope		Ball		Clubs		Ribbon		Rope		Ball		Clubs		Ribbon		Rope		Ball		Clubs		Ribbon
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Lenka Oulehlová	align=left rowspan=2	All-around	9.232	24	9.266	=18	9.266	=23	9.199	26	36.963	22	colspan=20
Andrea Šebestová	9.366	15	8.783	36	9.249	=26	9.200	=23	36.598	28

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The Czech Republic had five rowers participate in three out of fourteen rowing events in 1996.^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Václav Chalupa	Single sculls	7:35.48	1 SA/B	7:16.97	3 FA	6:55.65	5
Michal Vabroušek Adam Michálek	Lightweight double sculls	7:16.07	5 R	6:30.34	3 SC/D	6:41.41	1 FC	6:53.14	13

Women

Qualification legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinal A/B; SC/D=Semifinal C/D; R=Repechage; Q=Qualified for the next round

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rastislav Bizub	100 m backstroke	58.29	37	colspan=2
200 m backstroke	2:04.55	24	colspan=2
Daniel Málek	100 m breaststroke	1:02.46	9 FB	1:02.39	10
200 m breaststroke	2:17.08	17	colspan=2
Josef Horký	200 m butterfly	2:02.84	30	colspan=2
200 m individual medley	2:05.45	18	colspan="2"
400 m individual medley	4:26.58	13 FB	4:28.39	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kristýna Kyněrová	100 m freestyle	58.03	34	colspan=2
200 m freestyle	2:03.63	19	colspan=2
Olga Šplíchalová	400 m freestyle	4:20.04	21	colspan=2
800 m freestyle	8:47.68	15	colspan=2
Marcela Kubalčíková	100 m backstroke	1:05.48	24	colspan=2
100 m butterfly	1:03.82	33	colspan=2
200 m butterfly	2:19.38	27	colspan=2
Kateřina Pivoňková	200 m backstroke	2:18.20	21	colspan=2
Lenka Maňhalová	100 m breaststroke	1:12.72	29	colspan=2
200 m breaststroke	2:32.14	15 FB	2:29.96	11
200 m individual medley	2:18.43	20	colspan=2
Pavla Chrástová	400 m individual medley	4:51.35	15 FB	4:56.23	16
Hana Černá	4:49.43	13 FB	4:46.78	10
Hana Černá Kristýna Kyněrová Pavla Chrástová Olga Šplíchalová	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:21.19	15	colspan=2
Kateřina Pivoňková Lenka Maňhalová Marcela Kubalčíková Kristýna Kyněrová	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:21.05	20

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Three Czech table tennis players qualified for the following events.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Petr Korbel	Men's singles	W 2–1 (15–21, 21–16, 21–13)	W 2–0 (21–9, 21–11)	W 2–0 (21–13, 21–19)	W 3–2 (17–21, 19–21, 21–17, 21–14, 21–13)	W 3–0 (21–10, 21–13, 21–19)	L 0–3 (21–23, 7–21, 16–21)	L 1–3 (17–21, 21–19, 18–21, 19–21)	4
Petr Korbel Josef Plachý	Men's doubles	L 0–2 (16–21, 22–24)	L 0–2 (11–21, 19–21)	L 0–2 (8–21, 18–21)		25
Jana Dobešová	Women's singles	L 0–2 (9–21, 17–21)	L 0–2 (20–22, 20–22)	W 2–0 (21–9, 21–7)	33

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jiří Novák	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 6–4, 4–6, 3–6	L 4–6, 5–7	colspan=6
Daniel Vacek	W 6–4, 2–6, 6–4	L 3–6, 6–7^(1–7)	colspan=6
Jiří Novák Daniel Vacek	Doubles		W	W 7–5, 6–4	L 6–7^(4–7), 4–7

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jana Novotná	align=left rowspan=2	Singles	W 6–4, 4–4	W 6–4, 3–6, 6–3	W 6–3, 6–4	W 7–5, 3–6, 8–6	L 4–6, 6–1, 3–6	W 7–6^(10–8), 6–4
Helena Suková	L 6–7^(4–6), 6–3, 5–7	colspan=6
Jana Novotná Helena Suková	Doubles		W 6–2, 6–2	W 6–2, 6–3	W 6–2, 6–4	W 6–2, 7–6^(6–1)	L 6–7^(6–8), 4–6

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Beach

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Petr Stanislav	Men's 59 kg	112.0	10	142.5	10	255.0	10
Roman Polom	Men's 99 kg	160.0	16	187.5	18	347.5	19

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044223/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CZE/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-11 . sports-reference.com.
2. Czech Republic Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164402/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CZE/summer/1996/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 8 April 2018.
3. Web site: Table Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Singles, Men. Olympedia. 4 August 2024.
4. Web site: Table Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Doubles, Men. Olympedia. 4 August 2024.
5. Web site: Table Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Singles, Women. Olympedia. 4 August 2024.