| Jiří Jedlička | |
| Fullname: | Jiří Jedlička |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Club: | SC Plavecky Areal Pardubice |
| Coach: | Jaroslav Strnad |
| Birth Date: | 5 February 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Pardubice, Czechoslovakia |
| Height: | 1.870NaN0 |
| Weight: | 810NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Jiří Jedlička (born 5 February 1987) is a Czech former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He represented his nation Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has owned multiple Czech championship titles and national records in both the 100 and 200 m breaststroke. Jedlicka was also a member of Plavecky Areal Swimming Club in Pardubice, under the tutelage of his personal coach Jaroslav Strnad.[2]
Jedlicka competed for the Czech Republic in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He posted a sterling 1:01.46 to hack 0.04 seconds off the Czech record, set by Daniel Malek (1:01.50) in 2000, and sneak under the FINA A-cut (1:01.57) by about a tenth of a second for the seventh seed headed into the 100 m breaststroke final at the European Championships three months earlier in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3] In his first event, 100 m breaststroke, Jedlicka held off the hard-charging Spaniards Melquíades Álvarez and Borja Iradier to hit the wall in heat six with a fifth-place time and twenty-ninth overall in 1:01.56.[4] Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Jedlicka swam well through the 150-metre lap in heat three, but faded the closing stretch that allowed his Spanish rival Álvarez to pass him by 3.2 seconds, touching the fourth spot and thirty-ninth overall in 2:15.79.[5] [6]