Czech Republic at the 2014 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	CZE
Nocname:	Czech Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2014
Date:	7 February-23 February
Website:
Location:	Sochi, Russia
Competitors:	88
Sports:	13
Flagbearer:	Šárka Strachová (opening)^[1] ^[2] Ondřej Moravec (closing)^[3]
Rank:	15
Gold:	2
Silver:	4
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1994
See also:	(1900–1912) (1920–1992)

Czech Republic competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. A team of 83 athletes in 11 sports competed for the country.^[1]

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Biathlon	0	3	3	5
Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Snowboarding	1	0	0	1
Total	2	4	3	9

Medals by date
Day	Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Day 1	8 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 2	9 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 3	10 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 4	11 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 5	12 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 6	13 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 7	14 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 8	15 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 9	16 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	1	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 10	17 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 11	18 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 12	19 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	1	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	2
Day 13	20 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 14	21 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 15	22 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 16	23 February	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Total		2	4	3	9

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Ondřej Moravec Gabriela Soukalová Jaroslav Soukup Veronika Vítková
	Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Jitka Landová Veronika Vítková

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified for the following events:^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=5	Ondřej Bank	Downhill	2:08.24	20
Super-G	1:19.11	9
Combined	1:53.38	2	53.46	16	2:46.84	7
Slalom
Giant slalom	1:22.01	2	1:24.28	15	2:46.29	5
align=left rowspan=3	Kryštof Krýzl	Slalom	49.63	32
Giant slalom
Combined	1:56.68	32	53.21	14	2:49.89	19
Filip Trejbal	Slalom	50.80	38
align=left rowspan=5	Martin Vráblík	Downhill	2:11.73	35
Super-G	1:22.01	33
Combined	1:56.36	29	51.56	5	2:47.92	16
Slalom
Giant slalom	1:24.83	33	1:26.01	=30	2:50.84	31

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Martina Dubovská	Slalom	57.80	28	53.62	21	1:51.42	22
Giant slalom
align=left rowspan=3	Klára Křížová	Downhill	1:43.47	21
Super-G	1:28.30	17
Combined	1:44.89	18	57.51	17	2:42.40	19
align=left rowspan=3	Kateřina Pauláthová	Super-G	1:30.17	25
Slalom
Giant slalom
align=left rowspan=3	Šárka Strachová	Combined	1:46.51	25	50.10	1	2:36.61	9
Slalom	55.14	14	52.25	7	1:47.39	10
Giant slalom

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships, Czech Republic qualified 5 men and 5 women.^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Michal Krčmář	Individual	56:14.1	3 (1+1+1+0)	61
Tomáš Krupčík	Sprint	27:39.3	2 (1+1)	75
align=left rowspan=4	Ondřej Moravec	Sprint	24:48.1	0 (0+0)	8
Pursuit	34:02.7	0 (0+0+0+0)
Individual	51:55.8	2 (1+0+0+1)	18
Mass start	42:42.9	0 (0+0+0+0)
align=left rowspan=3	Michal Šlesingr	Sprint	25:51.7	1 (1+0)	31
Pursuit
Individual	55:57.9	2 (1+0+0+1)	57
align=left rowspan=4	Jaroslav Soukup	Sprint	24:39.2	0 (0+0)
Pursuit	35:35.0	4 (0+0+2+2)	20
Individual	51:55.1	1 (1+0+0+0)	17
Mass start	45:22.2	4 (0+1+0+3)	24
Michal Krčmář Tomáš Krupčík Ondřej Moravec Jaroslav Soukup	Team relay	1:15:11.9	5 (0+5)	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Jitka Landová	Sprint	23:16.9	2 (1+1)	50
Pursuit	35:37.6	5 (0+2+3+0)	52
Individual	52:05.7	6 (2+1+2+1)	60
align=left rowspan=3	Eva Puskarčíková	Sprint	23:00.9	1 (1+0)	45
Pursuit	33:59.0	2 (0+0+1+1)	42
Individual	47:34.6	1 (0+0+0+1)	22
align=left rowspan=4	Gabriela Soukalová	Sprint	22:17.5	3 (3 + 0)	29
Pursuit	30:18.3	1 (0+0+0+1)	4
Individual	45:17.1	2 (0+1+0+1)	4
Mass start	35:45.8	1 (0+0+0+1)
align=left rowspan=4	Veronika Vítková	Sprint	21:50.8	0 (0+0)	16
Pursuit	31:42.9	2 (1+0+0+1)	21
Individual	45:46.0	1 (0+0+0+1)	6
Mass start	36:49.3	0 (0+0+0+0)	8
Jitka Landová Eva Puskarčíková Gabriela Soukalová Veronika Vítková	Team relay	1:11:25.7	14 (0+14)	^1

¹The medal was reallocated after the disqualification of the Russian team for doping.

Mixed

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified a four-man sled in bobsleigh. The qualification was based on the world rankings as of 20 January 2014.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michal Vacek Jan Vrba*	Two-man	57.72	24	57.75	23	57.71	23	Did not advance		2:53.18	24
Dominik Dvořák Dominik Suchý Michal Vacek Jan Vrba*	Four-man	55.95	17	55.47	=7	55.95	14	55.80	13	3:43.17	14

* – Denotes the driver of each sled

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to the quota allocation released on 20 January 2014, Czech Republic qualified a total quota of 10 athletes in the following events.^[7]

Distance

Men

Athlete	Event	Classical		Freestyle		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Deficit	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Lukáš Bauer	15 km classical	39:28.6	+58.9	5
50 km freestyle	1:48:51.3	+1:56.1	31
align=left rowspan=2	Martin Jakš	30 km skiathlon	37:20.5	39	33:00.9	24	1:10:25.1	+2:36.7	28
50 km freestyle	1:50:00.5	+3:05.3	37
align=left rowspan=2	Jiří Magál	30 km skiathlon	37:45.6	46	34:23.0	43	1:12:49.5	+4:34.1	44
50 km freestyle	1:56:28.7	+9:33.5	52
align=left rowspan=2	Petr Novák	30 km skiathlon	37:56.0	47	32:59.2	21	1:11:28.5	+3:13.1	36
50 km freestyle	1:48:41.0	+1:45.8	29
Lukáš Bauer Martin Jakš Dušan Kožíšek Aleš Razým	4×10 km relay	1:30:36.8	+1:54.8	8

Women

Athlete	Event	Classical		Freestyle		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Deficit	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Klára Moravcová	10 km classical	32:00.6	+3:42.8	48
15 km skiathlon	22:00.9	56	21:57.2	56	44:40.8	+6:07.2	58
30 km freestyle	1:20:56.4	+9:51.2	45
align=left rowspan=2	Petra Nováková	15 km skiathlon	20:16.5	33	20:26.0	33	41:20.7	+2:47.1	36
30 km freestyle	1:17:49.6	+6:44.4	37
align=left rowspan=3	Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová	10 km classical	30:06.7	+1:48.9	21
15 km skiathlon	19:51.0	17	19:44.1	11	40:08.8	+1:35.2	11
30 km freestyle	1:12:27.1	+1:21.9	5
Karolína Grohová Klára Moravcová Petra Nováková Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová	4×5 km relay	56:29.8	+3:27.1	10

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dušan Kožíšek	align=left rowspan=2	Men's sprint	3:40.56	41	Did not advance
Aleš Razým	3:43.24	49	Did not advance
Martin Jakš Aleš Razým	Men's team sprint	23:39.06	2 Q	24:01.83	9
Karolína Grohová	align=left rowspan=2	Women's sprint	2:41.75	38	Did not advance
Petra Nováková	2:39.44	25 Q	2:47.52	5	Did not advance

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic achieved the following quota places:

Athlete	Event					Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Michal Březina	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	81.95	12 Q	151.67	13	233.62	10
Tomáš Verner	81.09	13 Q	151.90	12	232.99	11
Elizaveta Ukolova	Ladies' singles	51.87	20 Q	84.55	23	136.42	22

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified five quota places in the following events:^[8]

Moguls

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Run 1				Run 2				Run 1				Run 2				Run 3
		Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank	Time	Points	Total	Rank
Nikola Sudová	align=left rowspan=2	Women's moguls	31.30	14.86	20.38	11	31.48	14.98	20.43	3 Q	30.76	16.08	21.82	1 Q	32.09	15.76	20.97	9	Did not advance
Tereza Vaculíková	34.03	13.02	17.46	20					Did not advance

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Tomáš Kraus	Men's ski cross	1:17.41	10	3	Did not advance			18
Nikol Kučerová	align=left rowspan=2	Women's ski cross		27	3	Did not advance			24
Andrea Zemanová	1:25.96	20	3	Did not advance			21

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Slopestyle

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified a men's team by being one of the 9 highest ranked teams in the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 World Championships.^{[9] [10]}

Men's tournament

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament.

Roster

Group stage--------

Qualification playoffs

Quarterfinals

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ondřej Hyman	Men's singles	53.222	24	53.145	25	52.783	26	52.708	26	3:31.858	25
Antonín Brož Lukáš Brož	Men's doubles	50.665	15	50.387	11	1:41.052	13
Vendula Kotenová	Women's singles	51.760	25	51.492	24	51.856	26	51.567	24	3:26.675	24
Antonín Brož Lukáš Brož Ondřej Hyman Vendula Kotenová	Mixed team relay	55.600	9	56.926	11	57.279	8	2:49.805	9

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified a total of four athletes and a spot in the team relay.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Pavel Churavý	Normal hill/10 km	96.5	114.9	22	24:26.1	27	25:32.1	23
Large hill/10 km	123.0	103.6	24	24:10.0	32	25:52.0	32
align=left rowspan=2	Miroslav Dvořák	Normal hill/10 km	89.5	101.8	44	23:59.6	18	25:58.6	29
Large hill/10 km	125.0	104.2	22	22:21.1	1	24:00.1	11
align=left rowspan=2	Tomáš Portyk	Normal hill/10 km	97.5	119.8	13	25:30.2	36	26:17.2	32
Large hill/10 km	120.5	101.0	26	24:01.8	25	24:59.8	25
align=left rowspan=2	Tomáš Slavík	Normal hill/10 km	94.0	108.1	33	24:09.4	22	25:43.4	25
Large hill/10 km	120.5	101.0	26	23:44.2	29	25:36.2	29
Pavel Churavý Miroslav Dvořák Tomáš Portyk Tomáš Slavík	Team large hill/4×5 km	493.0	440.0	5	48:40.1	8	49:36.1	7

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified 1 man (1500 m) and 1 woman (1000 m, 1500 m) for the Olympics during World Cup 3 and 4 in November 2013.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kateřina Novotná	1000 m			did not advance
1500 m	2:27.232	6	Did not advance	31

Qualification legend: ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic received the following start quotas:

Athlete	Event	Qualification			First round			Final			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Antonín Hájek	Men's large hill	117.0	91.8	34 Q	128.0	113.6	28 Q	124.5	112.1	28	225.7	28
Lukáš Hlava	Men's normal hill	92.5	108.7	24 Q	91.5	105.7	46	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Jakub Janda	Men's normal hill	98.5	117.0	10 Q	98.5	125.2	17 Q	96.5	118.6	21	243.8	19
Men's large hill	124.5	113.6	10 Q	127.0	115.3	27 Q	126.0	116.3	27	231.6	27
align=left rowspan=2	Roman Koudelka	Men's normal hill	99.5	121.3	6 Q	98.5	122.5	24 Q	99.5	124.3	13	246.8	16
Men's large hill	120.0	104.6	20 Q	128.0	119.1	21 Q	125.5	124.4	14	243.5	19
align=left rowspan=2	Jan Matura	Men's normal hill	97.0	118.5	8 Q	96.5	123.9	18 Q	95.5	115.6	25	239.5	23
Men's large hill	120.5	106.4	17 Q	131.0	125.6	11 Q	121.0	119.2	22	244.8	18
Antonín Hájek Jakub Janda Roman Koudelka Jan Matura	Men's team large hill	504.0	476.0	7 Q	516.5	491.8	7	967.8	7

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Czech Republic qualified six quota places in the following events:

Alpine

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Ester Ledecká	Women's giant slalom	1:49.17	10 Q	W −0.49	L +0.30	Did not advance
Women's slalom	1:03.74	2 Q	W −0.18	L +0.30	Did not advance

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Semifinal				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Šárka Pančochová	Women's halfpipe	42.75	66.25	66.25	8 Q	34.00	31.50	34.00	9	Did not advance
Women's slopestyle	77.75	33.75	77.75	5 QS	90.50	22.50	90.50	1 QF	86.25	20.00	86.25	5

Qualification Legend: QF – Qualify directly to final; QS – Qualify to semifinal

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
David Bakeš	align=left rowspan=2	Men's snowboard cross			4	Did not advance			=25
Emil Novák			4	Did not advance			=25
Eva Samková	Women's snowboard cross	1:20.61	1		1 Q	1 FA	1

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Based on the results from the fall World Cups during the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup season, Czech Republic earned the following start quotas:

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Karolína Erbanová	500 m	38.23	9	38.62	13	76.86	10
1000 m	1:15.74	10
1500 m	1:58.23	13
align=left rowspan=2	Martina Sáblíková	3000 m	4:01.95
5000 m	6:51.54

External links

• Web site: Czech Republic at the 2014 Winter Olympics (Sochi2014.com) . 2014-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225060508/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/team-czech-republic . 2014-02-25 . bot: unknown .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vancouver 2010 medallist Strachová named as Czech Flagbearer for Sochi 2014 . Goddard . Emily . 2 January 2014 . www.insidethegames.biz/ . 4 January 2014.
2. Web site: Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony - Flagbearers . . 7 February 2014 . www.olympic.org/ . . 7 February 2014.
3. Web site: Sochi 2014 Closing Ceremony - Flagbearers. The International Olympic Committee (IOC). 23 February 2014. 23 February 2014.
4. Web site: Summary of Quota allocation as per 30.12.2013 . 30 December 2013 . www.fis-ski.com . . 5 January 2014.
5. News: 2014 Winter Olympics Biathlon NOC quota. Real Biathlon. 16 March 2013.
6. Web site: Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014 . December 2011 . . 10 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130128044920/http://corporate.olympics.com.au/files/dmfile/FIBT_Bobsleigh_Sochi2014_Qual_Systems_Dec2011_web.pdf . 28 January 2013 . dead .
7. Web site: Summary of Quota allocation as per 24.01.2014 . 24 January 2014 . www.fis-ski.com . . 2 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202171422/http://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/assigned-quota-for-olympic-games-2014-sochi.html?sectorcode=al . 2 February 2014 .
8. Web site: Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014 . December 2011 . . 10 November 2012 .
9. Web site: Nine teams go to Sochi 2014 . May 2012 . . 24 January 2013.
10. Web site: Jaromir Jagr, Petr Nedved headline Czech Republic Olympic hockey team . Nick Zaccardi . 6 January 2014 . NBC Olympictalk . 7 January 2014.