Czech Republic at the 2023 Winter World University Games explained

Noc:	CZE
Games Link:	2023 Winter World University Games
Games:	FISU World University Olympics
Year:	2023
Flagcaption:	Flag of Czech Republic
Location:	Lake Placid
Competitors:	93
Sports:	12
Flagbearer Open:	Tomáš Klinský^[1]
Rank:	6
Gold:	5
Silver:	1
Bronze:	6

The Czech Republic competed at the 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, from January 12 to January 22, 2023. This was be the Czech Republic's sixteenth appearance at the FISU Winter World University Games, having competed at every Games since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

The team won 12 medals, the best result at the FISU Winter World University Games since 2013 and twice the number of the previous games in Krasnoyarsk.^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

width=150	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Alpine skiing	6	2	8
Biathlon	4	4	8
Cross-country skiing	4	3	7
Curling	5	0	5
Figure skating	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	2	1	3
Ice hockey	23	23	46
Nordic combined	1	0	1
Short track speed skating	1	1	2
Ski jumping	1	0	1
Snowboarding	5	3	8
Speed skating	0	2	2
Total	53	40	93

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Women's ice hockey team

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2023 Winter World University Games. In alpine skiing, the Czech team recorded four medals, including three golds, thanks to Jan Zabystřan,^[3] who tied for fourth place among the multi-medalists of the games.^{[4] [5]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jan Zabystřan	Super-G	58.35
	Combined	56.82	1	46.56	10	1:43.38
	Giant Slalom	59.86	1	1:01.37	2	2:01.23
	Slalom	53.27	3	58.11	2	1:51.38
Tomáš Klinský	Super-G	59.49				10
	Combined	58.06	14	48.51	30	1:46.57	22
	Giant Slalom
	Slalom
David Kubeš	Super-G	59.96				13
	Combined
	Giant Slalom	1:03.18	32
	Slalom
Ondřej Surkoš	Super-G	1:00.56				25
	Combined
	Giant Slalom	1:02.90	28
	Slalom
Adam Klíma	Super-G	1:01.06				31
	Combined	58.57	19
	Slalom
Eduard Fiala	Super-G
	Combined	1:00.18	42	47.82	25	1:48.00	30
	Giant Slalom	1:05.08	51	1:06.58	31	2:11.66	31
	Slalom	56.30	39

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Klára Gašparíková	Super-G	53.31				8
	Giant Slalom	1:07.14	26	1:03.40	6	2:10.54	23
	Slalom
Aneta Vetrová	Super-G	55.20				23
	Giant Slalom

Mixed

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2023 Winter World University Games. Tereza Jandová, Kristýna Otcovská and Jakub Kocián added four medals together to the tally of the Czech team.^{[6] [7]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Jakub Kocián	Short individual	44:08.7	1 (0+0+0+1)	4
	Sprint	29:11.8	2 (0+2)	13
	Pursuit	37:31.4	2 (0+0+2+0)	7
	Mass start	43:49.0	0 (0+0+0+0)	18
Jakub Kabrda	Short individual	47:08.2	6 (2+2+2+0)	14
	Sprint	28.47.1	3 (1+2)	9
	Pursuit	38:47.6	6 (3+0+2+1)	11
	Mass start	43:08.3	6 (1+2+2+1)	15
Michal Zaoral	Short individual	48:45.6	5 (0+3+0+2)	22
	Sprint	30:39.4	5 (2+3)	20
	Pursuit	42:13.4	4 (1+1+1+1)	21
	Mass start	42:33.9	2 (0+1+0+1)	13
Luděk Abraham	Sprint	29:22.8	3 (0+3)	15
	Pursuit	40:21.5	7 (4+1+2+0)	19
	Mass start	40:53.7	3 (1+0+0+2)	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Tereza Jandová	Short individual	43:46.6	3 (0+2+0+1)
	Sprint	25:01.3	2 (0+2)
	Pursuit
	Mass start
Kristýna Otcovská	Short individual	46:58.1	6 (1+3+1+1)	8
	Sprint	25:21.9	3 (2+1)	6
	Pursuit	33:41.9	6 (0+1+3+2)	4
	Mass start	41:11.6	3 (3+0+0+0)
Lenka Bártová	Short individual	48:23.4	5 (1+2+0+2)	19
	Sprint	26:34.1	3 (0+3)	18
	Pursuit	34:57.6	1 (0+1+0+0)	9
	Mass start	42:52.2	3 (0+0+1+2)	9
Veronika Novotná	Short individual	49:03.9	6 (2+3+0+1)	23
	Sprint	25:55.8	3 (0+3)	10
	Pursuit	35:04.3	4 (2+1+1+0)	12
	Mass start	42:41.1	3 (0+0+2+1)	8

Mixed

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2023 Winter World University Games. Cross country skiers finished several times close to the medal standings, especially in the men's relay.^[8]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tomáš Dufek	10 km classical	25:13.6	5
	10 km free pursuit	48:31.0	6
	Sprint freestyle	3:09.86	21	4:13.12	6	Did not advance			28
Kryštof Zatloukal	10 km classical	25:51.8	16
	10 km free pursuit	48:44.2	9
	Sprint freestyle	3:11.84	25	3:12.76	4	Did not advance			19
	align=left	30 km free mass start
Tomáš Lukeš	align=left	10 km classical	26:24.2	30
	align=left	10 km free pursuit	49:22.8	15
	align=left	Sprint freestyle	2:33.15	33	Did not advance					33
Daniel Hozák	align=left	10 km classical	27:05.8	46
	align=left	10 km free pursuit	51:30.4	43
	align=left	Sprint freestyle	2:35.29	40	Did not advance					40
	align=left	30 km free mass start	1:21:20.5	37
align=left	Kryštof Zatloukal Tomáš Dufek Daniel Hozák Tomáš Lukeš	align=left	4×7.5 km relay	1:18:14.2	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pavlína Votočková	5 km classical	14:23.1	15
	align=left	5 km free pursuit	26:55.0	9
	Sprint freestyle	2:57.66	15	3:00.13	3	did not advance			14
	align=left	15 km free mass start
Adéla Nováková	5 km classical	14:32.8	20
	align=left	5 km free pursuit	27:06.4	13
	Sprint freestyle	2:55.56	10	2:57.41	2	3:00.49	6		11
	align=left	15 km free mass start	41:19.1	11
align=left	Barbora Antošová	align=left	Sprint freestyle	2:53.04	4	2:57.51	2	3:00.39	5		9
align=left	Barbora Antošová Pavlína Votočková Adéla Nováková	align=left	3×5 km relay	45:29.5	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left	Kryštof Zatloukal Adéla Nováková	Mixed team sprint classic	21:05.74	3
align=left	Tomáš Dufek Barbora Antošová	align=left	Mixed team sprint classic	20:46.80	8	21:56.95	10

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2023 Winter World University Games. After a good start beating Brazil, the Czech men failed to win any other game and finished ninth.^[9]

Summary

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2023 Winter World University Games. Two Czech figure skaters participated in Lake Placid, both advancing to the free skating.^[10]

Athletes	Event					Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Petr Kotlařík	Men	57.52	22	101.44	21	158.96	21
Nikola Rychtaříková	Women	46.34	20	79.19	19	125.53	19

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2023 Winter World University Games. After finishing without medals in the slopestyle final, both Jan Ferbr and Vojtěch Břeský advanced to the finals of the big air event. Břeský performed a double cork 1080 and a switch 1080 and won bronze medal, with Ferbr finishing fifth.^{[11] [12]} Klára Kašparová, one of the three athletes from the Brno University of Technology at the games, finished fourth as she failed to start well and did not find a way to pass Canada's Elizabeth Anne Filiatrault.^[13]

Ski cross

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Vojtěch Břeský	Men's big air	72.50	79.75	79.75	6	84.00	74.00	50.50	158.00
Men's slopestyle	77.50	88.50	88.50	4	62.00	84.00		84.00	6
Jan Ferbr	Men's big air	77.00	72.25	77.00	7	60.50	68.50	46.50	129.00	5
	Men's slopestyle	51.75	74.75	74.75	9	58.00	68.75		68.75	9

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

The bronze for the Czech women was the first FISU World University Games ice hockey medal for Czechia in 18 years. The men's team was close to the semifinals after winning the first three games, but defeats to Canada and Ukraine at the end of the group stopped them.^[14]

Men's tournament

Roster

• Goalkeepers: 1 Daniel Vacek, 2 Marek Štipčák, 3 Michal Kořének
• Defenders: 6 Patrik Vašíček, 9 Tomáš Hajič, 10 Štěpán Kučera, 14 Dominik Ficek, 21 Ondřej Baláž, 22 Tomáš Duda, 27 Jakub Kynčl, 29 Tomáš Hanák
• Forwards: 4 Matěj Novák, 8 Josef Hasman, 12 Patrik Tarnoczy, 13 Tomáš Pšenička, 15 Lukáš Prášek, 17 Štěpán Turek, 18 Vojtěch Komárek, 19 Matěj Mach, 20 Dominik Arnošt, 24 Milan Dančišin, 25 Jakub Wojnar, 26 Tomáš Koblížek
• Coach: Ondřej Kališ

Women's tournament

Roster

• Goalkeepers: 1 Kristýna Bláhová, 29 Denisa Jandová, 30 Kateřina Zechovská
• Defenders: 3 Klára Jandušíková, 4 Daniela Pejšová, 7 Denisa Habartová, 14 Barbora Hrůšová, 21 Karolína Kosinová, 23 Zuzana Martinů, 24 Adéla Jůzková, 26 Adéla Hanzlíková, 28 Viktorie Chladová
• Forwards: 5 Tereza Mazancová, 6 Alexandra Halounová, 8 Barbora Patočková, 12 Patricie Škorpíková, 13 Martina Mašková, 16 Martina Exnerová, 17 Kateřina Petřeková, 18 Tereza Topolská, 20 Sandra Halounová, 25 Kristýna Pátková
• Coach: Jakub Peslar

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

In Nordic combined, Matěj Fardhons started the first race with a great ski jumping round. Behind Japan's Sakutaro Kobayashi, who was by far unbeatable in Lake Placid, he was in third place, but in the cross country he fell down to the seventh place.^[15] In the second race, Fadrhons did not finish the mass start cross country round.^[16]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country		Ski jumping			Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Total Points	Rank
Matěj Fadrhons	Men's individual Gundersen normal hill/10 km	88.0	106.3	3	+2:09	24:54.4	10	7
	Men's individual mass start 10 km/normal hill

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

With two athletes, both recovering from medical issues,^[17] Czech team did not record prominent results in short track speed skating.^[18]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Time	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Radek Fajkus	500 m	42.317	1	42.227	3	42.008	5	Did not advance			19
1000 m	1:29.859	4	Did not advance							33
1500 m	2:28.449				3	Did not advance			22

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Petra Vaňková	500 m			colspan="6"
	1500 m	2:38.380		2				20

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

The only Czech ski jumper František Holík attempted to finish in the top ten, but did not succeed.^{[19] [20]}

Individual

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

Jakub Žerava and Bruno Tatarko advanced to the final stages of the men's snowboard cross event, with Žerava winning silver losing only to France's Benjamin Gattaz.^[21]

Kristián Salač performed great in both his events qualifications, but failed to prevail in the finals,^[22] despite having a great form as he confirmed soon after at the world championships, where he finished fifth in big air.^[23]

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Heats		Semifinal	Final	Final Rank
		Time	Rank	Points	Position	Position	Position
Jakub Žerava	Men's snowboard cross	55.71	6	13	7	2	2
Bruno Tatarko		56.40	8	13	8	3		8
Matouš Šmerák		57.69	11	10	12	Did not advance		12
Natalie Mullen	Women's snowboard cross	1:01.48	5	11	10	Did not advance		10
Vendula Burešová		1:05.40	13			Did not advance		13

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Kristián Salač	Men's slopestyle	87.00	51.00	87.00	2	73.00	24.75		73.00	5
Men's big air	86.00	21.25	86.00	1	34.50	30.75	67.25	101.75	9

Parallel Giant Slalom

Athlete	Event	Elimination Run		1/8 Finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinal	Final	Final Rank
		Time	Rank
Adam Počinek	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:04.09	13	L +1.22	Did not advance			9
	Men's parallel slalom	1:10.69	9	W -0.19	L	Did not advance		8
Klára Šonková	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:05.70	13	L +0.31	Did not advance			15
	Women's parallel slalom	1:15.68	11	L +1.63	Did not advance			11

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2023 Winter World University Games.

Veronika Antošová won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres race, while Zuzana Kuršová's results were less satisfactory.^[24]

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Time	Rank
Veronika Antošová	500 m	41.346	12
1000 m	1:23.66	7
1500 m	2:06.63
3000 m	4:34.14	5
Mass start	2	(10:00.13)	10
Zuzana Kuršová	1500 m	2:11.78	15
3000 m	4:43.80	11
Mass start	1	(10:00.06)	11

See also

• Czech Republic at the 2021 Summer World University Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: Českou výpravu na oficiálním zahájení ZSUH 2023 povede sjezdař Tomáš Klinský . 2023-01-12. CAUS.cz . cs. 2024-07-15.
2. Web site: Vůbec to nechápu, hodnotí univerziádu Zabystřan. Češi v Lake Placid zdvojnásobili zisk medailí . 2024-07-14 . ČT sport - Česká televize . cs.
3. Web site: 2023-01-23 . Třikrát zlatý a jednou bronzový Jan Zabystřan je hvězdou zimní univerziády v Lake Placid - Česká zemědělská univerzita . 2024-07-14 . cs.
4. Web site: Lake Placid 2023 Results . 2024-07-14 . www.lakeplacid2023.com . en.
5. Book: Alpine Skiing : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
6. Book: Biathlon : Full Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
7. Web site: Hermann . Tomáš . 2023-01-22 . Kristýna Otcovská to dokázala! Vyhrála Univerziádu v Lake Placid. Luděk Abrahám pátý . 2024-07-14 . Biatlon . en.
8. Book: Cross Country Skiing : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
9. Book: Curling : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
10. Book: Figure Skating : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
11. Web site: Cinklo to na Univerziádě 2023! Vojta Břeský je bronzový v big airu . 2024-07-14 . Freeride.cz . cs.
12. Book: Freestyle & Freeski : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
13. Web site: Světové univerzitní hry v Lake Placid . 2024-07-14 . VUT : CESA [Centre of Sport Activities] . cs.
14. Book: Ice Hockey : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
15. Web site: Sdruženář Fadrhons na Univerziádě útočil na medaili, v posledním okruhu ztratil kontakt . 2024-07-14 . CZECH SKI.
16. Book: Nordic Combined : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
17. Web site: Létal . Theodor . 2023-01-25 . Zimní světové univerzitní hry 2023, Lake Placid – Veronika Antošová veze domů bronz! - Český svaz rychlobruslení . 2024-07-14 . cs-CZ.
18. Book: Short Track Speed Skating : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
19. Web site: Univerziáda: Holík bojoval o elitní desítku, triumfoval Vassiljev . 2024-07-14 . CZECH SKI.
20. Book: Ski Jumping : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
21. Web site: 2023-01-14 . Zabystřan vyhrál na univerziádě super-G, Žerava byl druhý ve snowboardcrossu . 2024-07-14 . iDNES.cz . cs.
22. Book: Snowboard : Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.
23. Web site: Historický úspěch českého freestyle snowboardingu! Kristián Salač si dojel ve finále Big Airu na MS pro páté místo . 2024-07-14 . CZECH SKI.
24. Book: Speed Skating: Final Results Book . 2023-01-21 . FISU, International University Sports Federation . Lausanne.