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	Did not advance
Barbora Horáčková	Women's individual	620	44	(9) L 107–109	Did not advance

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
Roman Bílek	50 km walk	4:18:32	45
Rudolf Götz	400 m	46.38	6	Did not advance
Jakub Holuša	800 m	1:48.19	3	Did not advance
Lukáš Milo	100 m	10.52	5	Did not advance
Stanislav Sajdok	align=left rowspan=2	110 m hurdles	13.89	6	Did not advance
Petr Svoboda	13.43	3 Q	13.41	2 Q	13.60	7	Did not advance
Jiří Vojtík	200 m	21.05	4	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Jaroslav Bába	High jump	2.29	=1 Q	2.29	6
Štěpán Janáček	Pole vault	5.30	=17	Did not advance
Tomáš Janků	High jump	2.29	=1 Q	2.29	7
Jan Kudlička	Pole vault	5.65	=7 q	5.45	10
Jan Marcell	Discus throw	59.52	28	Did not advance
Lukáš Melich	Hammer throw	70.56	29	Did not advance
Roman Novotný	Long jump	7.94	12 q	8.00	8
Petr Stehlík	Shot put	19.41	28	Did not advance
Vítězslav Veselý	Javelin throw	81.20	5 q	76.76	12

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
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
Lucie Škrobáková	100 m hurdles	13.18	6	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Kateřina Baďurová	Pole vault		—	Did not advance
Věra Cechlová	Discus throw	61.61	9 Q	61.75	5
Romana Dubnová	High jump	1.93	=14 q	1.89	15
Jarmila Klimešová	Javelin throw	57.25	21	Did not advance
Lenka Ledvinová	Hammer throw	67.17	26	Did not advance
Denisa Ščerbová	Long jump	6.46	20	Did not advance
Martina Šestáková	Triple jump		—	Did not advance
Barbora Špotáková	Javelin throw	67.69	1 Q	71.42
Iva Straková	High jump	1.93	7 q	1.93	12

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	Did not advance
Kristína Ludíková	Women's singles	W 21–13, 21–8	L 18–21, 13–21	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
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: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = 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	Did not advance
Tomáš Bábek Adam Ptáčník Denis Špička	Men's team sprint	45.678 59.109	11	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
Jana Horáková	Women's BMX	38.077	8	16	5	Did not advance

Equestrian

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

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	Did not advance
Horizontal bar	13.125	13.125	73	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
Jaromír Ježek	Men's −73 kg		L 0001–1000	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
50 m rifle 3 positions	1163	23	Did not advance
Tomáš Jeřábek	50 m rifle prone	586	46	Did not advance
David Kostelecký	Trap	121	2 Q	146
Martin Podhráský	align=left rowspan=2	25 m rapid fire pistol	565	14	Did not advance
Martin Strnad	562	16	Did not advance
	Skeet	117	16	Did not advance
	50 m pistol	544	37	Did not advance
Miroslav Varga	50 m rifle prone	590	29	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2		10 m air pistol	379	26	Did not advance
25 m pistol	578	20	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Michaela Musilová	10 m air pistol	375	35	Did not advance
25 m pistol	571	34	Did not advance
Adéla Sýkorová	50 m rifle 3 positions	578	19	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:02.85	31	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jiří Jedlička	100 m breaststroke	1:01.56	29	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:15.79	39	Did not advance
Michal Rubáček	100 m butterfly	53.53	42	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Květoslav Svoboda	200 m freestyle	1:51.67	46	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	3:56.54	33	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:03.12	40	Did not advance
Martin Verner	100 m freestyle	48.95	21	Did not advance
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	Did not advance
Petra Klosová	100 m backstroke	1:03.36	39	Did not advance
Jana Klusáčková	100 m freestyle	55.92	31	Did not advance
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	Did not advance
Dana Hadačová	Women's singles	W 4–0	W 4–2	L 3–4	Did not advance

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)	Did not advance
Ivo Minář	L 3–6, 6–3, 3–6	Did not advance
Radek Štěpánek	L 6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 9–11	Did not advance
	L 4–6, 1–6	Did not advance
Tomáš Berdych Radek Štěpánek	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles		L 7–5, 2–6, 6–8	Did not advance
Martin Damm Pavel Vízner		W 3–6, 6–0, 6–2	L 6–1, 6–7^(3–7), 5–7	Did not advance

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	Did not advance
	W 6–4, 6–2	W 2–6, 6–1, 7–5	L 5–7, 4–6	Did not advance
	L 6–4, 1–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Klára Zakopalová	L 6–2, 3–6, 5–7	Did not advance
	align=left rowspan=2	Doubles		L 6–4, 5–7, 1–6	Did not advance
		L 1–6, 0–6	Did not advance

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"