Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	CZE
Nocname:	Czech Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2008
Website:
Location:	Beijing
Competitors:	134
Sports:	19
Flagbearer:	Štěpánka Hilgertová (opening) Věra Cechlová (closing)
Rank:	24
Gold:	3
Silver:	3
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1996
See also:	(1900–1912) (1920–1992)

The Czech Republic participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The Czech delegation consisted of around 130 athletes.^[1]

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	1	0	0	1
Canoeing	0	1	0	1
Shooting	2	1	0	3
Rowing	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	0	0	1	1
Total	3	3	1	7

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Medals by day
Day	Date				Total
1		1	0	0	1
2		1	0	0	1
6		0	1	1	2
7		0	1	0	1
8		0	1	0	1
13		1	0	0	1
Total		3	3	1	7

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Medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Male	1	2	1	4	57.14%
Female	2	1	0	3	42.86%
Mixed	0	0	0	0	0.00%
Total	3	3	1	7	100%

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Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Kateřina Emmons	Shooting	1	1	0	2

Archery

See main article: article and Archery at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Martin Bulíř	Men's individual	629	56	(9) L 100–111	colspan=6
Barbora Horáčková	Women's individual	620	44	(9) L 107–109

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lukáš Milo	100 m	10.52	5	colspan=6
Jiří Vojtík	200 m	21.05	4	colspan=6
Rudolf Götz	400 m	46.38	6	colspan=4
Jakub Holuša	800 m	1:48.19	3	colspan=4
Stanislav Sajdok	align=left rowspan=2	110 m hurdles	13.89	6	colspan=6
Petr Svoboda	13.43	3 Q	13.41	2 Q	13.60	7	colspan=2
Roman Bílek	50 km walk	4:18:32	45

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Roman Novotný	Long jump	7.94	12 q	8.00	8
Jaroslav Bába	High jump	2.29	=1 Q	2.29	6
Tomáš Janků	2.29	=1 Q	2.29	7
Štěpán Janáček	Pole vault	5.30	=17	colspan=2
Jan Kudlička	5.65	=7 q	5.45	10
Petr Stehlík	Shot put	19.41	28	colspan=2
Jan Marcell	Discus throw	59.52	28	colspan=2
Vítězslav Veselý	Javelin throw	81.20	5 q	76.76	12
Lukáš Melich	Hammer throw	70.56	29

Combined events – Decathlon

Athlete	Event	100 m				400 m					1500 m	Final	Rank
Roman Šebrle	Result	11.21	7.68	14.78	2.11	49.54	14.71	45.50	4.80	63.93	4:49.63	8241	5
Points	814	980	776	906	836	885	777	849	797	621

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lucie Škrobáková	100 m hurdles	13.18	6	colspan=4
Zuzana Hejnová	400 m hurdles	55.91	3 Q	55.17	4 Q	54.97	7
Zuzana Schindlerová	20 km walk	1:32.57	27

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Denisa Ščerbová	Long jump	6.46	20	colspan=2
Martina Šestáková	Triple jump		—	colspan=2
Romana Dubnová	High jump	1.93	=14 q	1.89	15
Iva Straková	1.93	7 q	1.93	12
Kateřina Baďurová	Pole vault		—	colspan=2
Věra Cechlová	Discus throw	61.61	9 Q	61.75	5
Jarmila Klimešová	Javelin throw	57.25	21	colspan=2
Barbora Špotáková	67.69	1 Q	71.42
Lenka Ledvinová	Hammer throw	67.17	26

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event				200 m			800 m	Final	Rank
	Result	13.88	1.65		—	—	—	—
Points	995	795	0	—	—	—	—

Badminton

See main article: article and Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Petr Koukal	Men's singles	L 21–10, 12–21, 15–21	colspan=6
Kristína Ludíková	Women's singles	W 21–13, 21–8	L 18–21, 13–21

Basketball

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Women's tournament

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Roster

Group play

Quarterfinals

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Total	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Total	Rank
Vavřinec Hradilek	Men's K-1	85.61	8	86.41	10	172.02	7 Q	88.97	11	colspan=4
Stanislav Ježek	Men's C-1	85.69	2	86.40	7	172.09	4 Q	89.85	2 Q	92.44	6	182.29	5
Ondřej Štěpánek Jaroslav Volf	Men's C-2	93.78	2	97.16	4	190.94	4 Q	95.33	3 Q	97.56	3	192.89
Štěpánka Hilgertová	Women's K-1	97.14	6	91.99	2	189.13	3 Q	101.78	3 Q	242.63	9	344.41	9

Sprint

Qualification Legend: SF = Qualify to semi-final; F = Qualify directly to final

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Petr Benčík	align=left rowspan=2	Men's road race	6:39:42	75
Roman Kreuziger	6:26:35	45

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Adam Ptáčník	Men's sprint	10.569 68.123	19	colspan=6
Tomáš Bábek Adam Ptáčník Denis Špička	Men's team sprint	45.678 59.109	11

Pursuit

Keirin

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Milan Kadlec	Men's points race	20	1	9
Lada Kozlíková	Women's points race	2	0	13
Milan Kadlec Alois Kaňkovský	Men's madison	3	−3	13

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jaroslav Kulhavý	Men's cross-country	2:03:20	18
Tereza Huříková	Women's cross-country	Did not finish

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Result	Rank
	Men's BMX	36.689	20	18	6	colspan=4
Jana Horáková	Women's BMX	38.077	8	16	5

Equestrian

See main article: article.

Eventing

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Martin Konečný	Pommel horse		13.650	13.650	58	colspan=8
Horizontal bar	13.125	13.125	73

Women

Trampoline

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Pavel Petříkov	Men's −60 kg		W 0011–0000	L 0000–0001	colspan=7
Jaromír Ježek	Men's −73 kg		L 0001–1000

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
		Points	Rank	MP Points	Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points
Michal Michalík	align=left rowspan=2	Men's	188	3	1192	16–19	=21	784	2:08.37	24	1260	28	1	1172	9:47.25	25	1052	5460	6
David Svoboda	191	1	1228	24–11	3	976	2:05.40	17	1296	1016*	32	184	9:24.35	7	1144	4828	29
Lucie Grolichová	Women's	177	21	1060	23–12	3	952	2:19.78	19	1244	140	26	1060	11:06.47	28	1056	5372	16

* Did not finish

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ondřej Synek	Single sculls	7:23.94	1 QF	6:50.23	1 SA/B	7:03.57	1 FA	7:00.63
Václav Chalupa Jakub Makovička	Pair	6:52.50	3 SA/B	6:37.88	4 FB	6:52.57	8
Milan Doleček Jakub Hanák David Jirka Petr Vitásek	Quadruple sculls	6:00.98	5 R	6:04.95	3 SA/B	5:56.38	4 FB	5:50.07	10
Milan Bruncvík Jan Gruber Michal Horváth Karel Neffe	Four	6:10.36	4 R	5:58.69	1 SA/B	5:58.02	2 FA	6:16.56	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Miroslava Knapková	Single sculls	7:51.56	1 QF	7:30.33	1 SA/B	7:38.14	3 FA	7:35.52	5
Jitka Antošová Gabriela Vařeková	Double sculls	7:04.23	2 R	7:00.75	2 FA	7:25.09	6

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

* Jitka Antošová fell ill during the course of the competition and was replaced by Miroslava Knapková at the final.

Sailing

See main article: article and Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men

Women

Open

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Václav Haman	10 m air rifle	593	13	colspan=2
50 m rifle 3 positions	1163	23	colspan=2
Tomáš Jeřábek	50 m rifle prone	586	46	colspan=2
David Kostelecký	Trap	121	2 Q	146
Martin Podhráský	align=left rowspan=2	25 m rapid fire pistol	565	14	colspan=2
Martin Strnad	562	16	colspan=2
	Skeet	117	16	colspan=2
	50 m pistol	544	37	colspan=2
Miroslav Varga	50 m rifle prone	590	29

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kateřina Emmons	10 m air rifle	400	1 Q	503.5
50 m rifle 3 positions	586	6 Q	687.7
	10 m air rifle	392	31	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2		10 m air pistol	379	26	colspan=2
25 m pistol	578	20	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2	Michaela Musilová	10 m air pistol	375	35	colspan=2
25 m pistol	571	34	colspan=2
Adéla Sýkorová	50 m rifle 3 positions	578	19

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Tomáš Fučík	100 m backstroke	57.29	41	colspan=4
200 m individual medley	2:02.85	31	colspan=4
align=left rowspan=2	Jiří Jedlička	100 m breaststroke	1:01.56	29	colspan=4
200 m breaststroke	2:15.79	39	colspan=4
Michal Rubáček	100 m butterfly	53.53	42	colspan=4
align=left rowspan=3	Květoslav Svoboda	200 m freestyle	1:51.67	46	colspan=4
400 m freestyle	3:56.54	33	colspan=2
200 m backstroke	2:03.12	40	colspan=4
Martin Verner	100 m freestyle	48.95	21	colspan=4
Rostislav Vítek	10 km open water	1:52:41.8	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sandra Kazíková	50 m freestyle	25.54	29	colspan=4
Petra Klosová	100 m backstroke	1:03.36	39	colspan=4
Jana Klusáčková	100 m freestyle	55.92	31	colspan=4
Jana Pechanová	10 km open water	1:59:39.7	8

Synchronized swimming

See main article: article and Synchronized swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Petr Korbel	Men's singles	L 2–4	colspan=6
Dana Hadačová	Women's singles	W 4–0	W 4–2	L 3–4

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 2008 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
Tomáš Berdych	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	W 6–1, 6–2	W 6–3, 7–6^(7–4)	L 3–6, 6–7^(4–7)	colspan=4
Ivo Minář	L 3–6, 6–3, 3–6	colspan=6
Radek Štěpánek	L 6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 9–11	colspan=6
	L 4–6, 1–6	colspan=6
Tomáš Berdych Radek Štěpánek	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles		L 7–5, 2–6, 6–8	colspan=5
Martin Damm Pavel Vízner		W 3–6, 6–0, 6–2	L 6–1, 6–7^(3–7), 5–7

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
Iveta Benešová	align=left rowspan=4	Singles	W 6–2, 2–1^r	L 1–6, 4–6	colspan=5
	W 6–4, 6–2	W 2–6, 6–1, 7–5	L 5–7, 4–6	colspan=4
	L 6–4, 1–6, 4–6	colspan=6
Klára Zakopalová	L 6–2, 3–6, 5–7	colspan=6
	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles		L 6–4, 5–7, 1–6	colspan=5
		L 1–6, 0–6

Triathlon

See main article: article and Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Filip Ospalý	Men's	18:17	0:30	58:56	0:29	32:41	1:50:53.69	20
Vendula Frintová	align=left rowspan=2	Women's	20:53	0:31	1:05:29	0:28	36:06	2:03:27.49	23
Lenka Zemanová	20:00	0:28	Did not finish

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Men's Greco-Roman

• Marek Švec originally finished fifth, but in November 2016, he was promoted to bronze due to disqualification of Asset Mambetov.

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20121020211853/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/17/content_8559425.htm ""Around 130 Czech athletes named for Beijing Olympics"