| Jakub Dudycha | |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 800m |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 2005 |
| Pb: | 800m: 1:44.82 (Bydgoszcz, 2024) NR |
Jakub Dudycha (born 5 September 2005) is a Czech middle distance runner. He is Czech national record holder over 800 metres. He won Czech national titles in 2023 and 2024.[1]
Dudycha is from Vysoké Mýto. In 2022 he won the 800m at 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem and reached the semi-finals of the Junior World Championships in Cali, Colombia. He set a personal best time of 1:48.58 at the Golden Spike event in Ostrava in June 2022.[2] [3]
He won the Czech Athletics Championships in Tábor in July 2023 over 800 metres.[4] He won the European Athletics U20 Championships 800 metres race in Jerusalem in August 2023. The following month, Dudycha broke the Czech junior record for 800 meters in Zagreb, running 1:45.84.[5]
In Lyon, in February 2024 he improved his own junior indoor Czech record in the 800 meters with a time of 1:47.12.[6]
He was selected for the European Athletics Championships in Rome in 2024 where, still aged 18 years-old, he ran a personal best time of 1:44.89 in the qualification heats, the third fastest time in Czech history.[7] That month, he set a senior national record of 1:44.82 in Bydgoszcz.[8] Later that month he retained his Czech national title.[9]