Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Summer Olympics

The Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (informally known as Czechoslovakia) competed as a nation for the last time at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the Czech Republic and Slovakia would compete as independent nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics. 208 competitors, 146 men and 62 women, took part in 121 events in 25 sports.[1]

Czechoslovakia at the
1992 Summer Olympics
IOC codeTCH
NOCCzechoslovak Olympic Committee
in Barcelona
Competitors208 (146 men and 62 women) in 25 sports
Flag bearer Jozef Lohyňa
Medals
Ranked 15th
Gold
4
Silver
2
Bronze
1
Total
7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Bohemia (1900–1912)
 Czech Republic (1994–)
 Slovakia (1994–)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event Date
  Gold Lukáš Pollert Canoeing Men's slalom C-1 1 August
  Gold Petr Hrdlička Shooting Trap 2 August
  Gold Robert Změlík Athletics Men's decathlon 6 August
  Gold Jan Železný Athletics Men's javelin throw 8 August
  Silver Václav Chalupa Rowing Men's single sculls 1 August
  Silver Jiří Rohan
Miroslav Šimek
Canoeing Men's slalom C-2 2 August
  Bronze Luboš Račanský Shooting Men's 10 metre running target 1 August

Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[2]

Sport Men Women Total
Archery 1 0 1
Athletics 14 4 18
Badminton 1 1 2
Basketball 0 12 12
Boxing 4 4
Canoeing 20 7 27
Cycling 12 0 12
Diving 0 1 1
Equestrian 1 0 1
Fencing 5 0 5
Gymnastics 2 5 7
Handball 16 0 16
Judo 4 1 5
Modern pentathlon 3 3
Rowing 18 13 31
Sailing 1 2 3
Shooting 13 4 17
Swimming 3 5 8
Synchronized swimming 1 1
Table tennis 3 2 5
Tennis 1 4 5
Water polo 12 12
Weightlifting 5 5
Wrestling 7 7
Total 146 62 208

Archery

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Czechoslovakia's second archery appearance came twelve years after its first. Only one man competed for Czechoslovakia, not advancing to the elimination rounds.

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Martin Hámor – Ranking round (did not advance – 65th place)

Athletics

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Men's 110m Hurdles

Men's 400m Hurdles

Men's Marathon

Men's Long Jump

Men's Triple Jump

Men's Discus Throw

Men's Javelin Throw

Men's Hammer Throw

Men's 20 km Walk

Men's 50 km Walk

Men's Decathlon

Women's Marathon

Women's High Jump

Women's Discus Throw

Badminton

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Men

  • Tomasz mendrek – Round of 32 (lost to Foo Kok Keong MAS 0-2)

Women

  • Eva Lacinová – Round of 64 (lost to Doris Piche CAN 0-2)

Basketball

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Women's Team Competition

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Boxing

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Flyweight (51 kg)

  • Stanislav Vagaský – Round of 32 (lost to Isidrio Visvera PHI)

Middleweight (75 kg)

  • Michal franek – Round of 32 (lost to Lee Seung-Bae KOR)

Heavyweight (91 kg)

  • Vojtěch Rückschloss – Quarterfinals (lost to David Tua NZL rsc – 5th place)

Super Heavyweight (+91 kg)

  • Peter Hrivňák – Quarterfinals (lost to Brian Nielsen DEN 4-14 – 5th place)

Canoeing

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Flatwater

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K1 – 500 m men

  • Attila Szabó – semifinal (did not advance)

K2 – 500 m men

  • Juraj Kadnár, Róbert Erban – semifinal (did not advance)

C1 – 500 m men

C2 – 500 m men

  • Jan Bartůněk, Waldemar Fibigr – final: 1:44.70 (8th place)

K1 – 1000 m men

  • Róbert Erban – semifinal (did not advance)

K2 – 1000 m men

  • René Kučera, Petr Hruška – final: 3:23.12 (7th place)

K4 – 1000 m men

C1 – 1000 m men

  • Jan Bartůněk – final: 4:15,25 (8th place)

C2 – 1000 m men

  • Jan Bartůněk, Waldemar Fibigr – final: 1:44,70 (8th place)

K2 – 500 m women

  • Jobánková, Janáčková – semifinal (did not advance)

K4 – 500 m women

  • Jobánková, Janáčková, Havelková, Vokurková – semifinal (did not advance)

Water slalom

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K1 men

  • Luboš Hilgert – 116.63 (23rd place)
  • Pavel Prindiš – 117.60 (24th place)

C1 men

  • Lukáš Pollert – 113.69 (gold medal)
  • Jakub Prüher – 151.85 (26th place)

C2 men

  • Miroslav Šimek, Jiří Rohan – 124.25 (silver medal)
  • Petr Štercl, Pavel Štercl – 130.42 (6th place)
  • Jan Petříček, Tomáš Petříček – 131.86 (7th place)

K1 women

  • Zdenka Grossmannová – 135.79 (5th place)
  • Štěpánka Hilgertová – 141.43 (12th place)
  • Marcela Sadilová – 150.38 (20th place)

Cycling

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Twelve cyclists, all men, represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Road cycling

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Men's road race
Men's team time trial

Track cycling

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Men's sprint
Men's individual pursuit
Men's team pursuit
Men's points race

Diving

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Women's 3m Springboard

Equestrianism

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Showjumping

  • Jiří Pecháček, Garta – withdrew due to horse's illness in qualification round

Fencing

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Five male fencers represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Men's épée
Men's team épée

Gymnastics

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Two men and three Czechoslovak women participated in the artistic gymnastics competition, but only Pavla Kinclová managed to advance to the all-around finals in comparison to three finalists in 1988, where Czechoslovakia entered whole women's team. Daniela Bártová later switched to athletics and participated in the 2000 Olympics in pole vault. Lenka Oulehlová recorded second of her three Olympic participations with her (and Czechoslovakia's all-time rhythmic gymnastics) best Olympics result - 8th place.

Artistic Gymnastics

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Men

  • Martin modlitba – qualification all-around: 112.625 points (62nd place)
  • Arnold Bugár – qualification all-around: 111.200 points (77th place)

Women

  • Pavla Kinclová – final all-around: 38.899 points (24th place)
  • Iveta Poloková – qualification all-around: 76.773 points (58th place)
  • Daniela Bártová – qualification all-around: 76.535 points (64th place)

Rhythmic Gymnastics

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Individual

  • Lenka Oulehlová – final: 56.137 points (8th place)
  • Jana Šrámková – qualification: 27.650 points (16th place)

Handball

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Men's Team Competition

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Judo

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60 kg men

  • Petr Šedivák – 1st round (lost to Junior BRA)

65 kg men

  • Pavel Petřikov – 3rd round (lost to Csak HUN), repechage 1st round (lost to Laats BEL)

71 kg men

  • Josef Věnsek – 3rd round (lost to Korhoren FIN)

95 kg men

  • Jiří Sosna – 2nd round (lost to Aurelio BRA)

61 kg women

Modern pentathlon

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Three male pentathletes represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Men

Men – teams

  • Czechoslovakia – 15.002 points (9th place)
    • Petr Blažek
    • Tomáš Fleissner
    • Jiří Prokopius

Rowing

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Single sculls men

Coxed pairs men

  • Czechoslovakia – withdrew
    • Michal Dalecký, Dušan Macháček, cox Oldřich Hejdušek

Coxed fours men

  • Czechoslovakia – 10th place
    • Petr Batěk, Martin Parkán, Martin Tomaštík, Ivo Žerava, cox Martin Svoboda

Eights men

  • Czechoslovakia – 12th place
    • Radek Zavadil, Pavel Sokol, Petr Blecha, Jan Beneš, Pavel Menšík, Ondřej Holeček, Jiří Šefčík, Dušan Businský, cox Jiří Pták

Paired fours women

  • Czechoslovakia – final: 6:35,99 (6th place)
    • Irena Soukupová, Michaela Burešová, Hana Kafková, Lubica Novotníková

Eights women

  • Czechoslovakia – 8th place
    • Hana Žáková, Hana Dariusová, Renata Beránková, Martina Šefčíková, Sabina Telenská, Radka Zavadilová, Michaela Vávrová, Eliška Jandová, (cox) Lenka Kováčová

Sailing

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Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

Women's 470 Class

Shooting

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Air rifle men

  • Petr Kůrka – 588 points (13th place)
  • Dalimil nejezchleba – 586 points (21st place)

Free pistol men

  • Stanislav jirkal – 553 points (17th place)

Air pistol men

  • Stanislav jirkal – 580 points (10th place)

Rapid fire pistol men

  • Jindřich Skupa – 584 points (13th place)

Rifle prone men

  • Milan Bakeš – 591 points (31st place)
  • Miroslav Varga – 591 points (31st place)

Rifle 3x40 men

  • Petr Kůrka – 1162 points (11th place)
  • Milan Bakeš – 1155 points (21st place)

Skeet men

  • Luboš Adamec – 197 points (11th place)
  • Leoš Hlaváček – 196 points (16th place)
  • David valter – 195 points (21st place)

Trap men

  • Petr Hrdlička – 219 points (gold medal)
  • Pavel kubec – 218 points (5th place)

Running target

Air rifle women

  • Dagmar Bílková – 494.9 points (4th place)
  • Lenka Koloušková – 586 points (17th place)

Standard rifle 3x20 women

  • Lenka Koloušková – 579 points (9th place)
  • Dagmar Bílková – 571 points (24th place)

Sport pistol women

  • Jindřiška Šimková – 575 points (14th place)
  • Regina Kodýmová – 573 points (21st place)

Swimming

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Men's 100m Backstroke

Men's 200m Backstroke

  • Marcel Blažo – heat: 2:02.81 (did not advance, 19th place)
  • Rastislav bizub – heat: 2:03.30 (did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

  • Radek beinhauer – heat: 1:04.88 (did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

  • Radek beinhauer – B-final: 2:16.07 (13th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

Women's 100m Freestyle

Women's 400m Freestyle

Women's 800m Freestyle

Women's 100m Backstroke

Women's 200m Backstroke

  • Helena Straková – heat: 2:18.44 (did not advance, 30th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

  • Lenka Maňhalová – heat: 1:13.96 (did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

Women's 200m Individual Medley

  • Hana Černá – heat: 2:19.93 (did not advance, 22nd place)
  • Lenka Manhalová – heat: 2:20.52 (did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

Synchronized swimming

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One synchronized swimmer represented Czechoslovakia in 1992.

Women's solo

Table tennis

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Men's singles

  • Petr Korbel – preliminary group: 2 wins, 1 loss (did not advance)
  • Roland Vími – preliminary group: 1 win, 2 losses (did not advance)
  • Tomáš Jančí – preliminary group: 3 losses (did not advance)

Women's singles

  • Marie Hrachová – 4th place
    • preliminary group: 3 wins
    • round of 16: lost to Chai Po Wa HKG 0-3

Women's doubles

Tennis

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Men

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Medal Match
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Marián Vajda Singles   G Bloom (ISR)
L 6–7(7), 1–6, 0–6
Did not advance

Women

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Medal Match
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Jana Novotná Singles   N Zvereva (EUN)
L 1–6, 0–6
Did not advance
Helena Suková Singles   N Randriantefy (MAD)
W 6-0, 6-1
  Angélica Gavaldón (MEX)
L 6–4, 4–6, 3–5 r.
Did not advance
Jana Novotná
Andrea Strnadová
Doubles   Ruxandra Dragomir (ROM)
  Irina Spîrlea (ROM)
W 6–1, 6–4
  Kimiko Date (JPN)
  Maya Kidowaki (JPN)
W 6–3, 7–6(4)
  Rachel McQuillan (AUS)
  Nicole Provis (AUS)
L 3–6, 3–6
Did not advance

Water polo

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Men's Team Competition

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Weightlifting

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Athlete Event Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
René Durbák Men's 82.5 kg 147.5 20 182.5 19 330.0 19
Petr Krol Men's 100 kg 162.5 14 200.0 13 362.5 12
Jaroslav Jokeľ Men's 100 kg 162.5 13 192.5 15 355.0 14
Miloš Čiernik Men's 110 kg 160.0 17 192.5 16 352.5 16
Jiří Zubrický Men's +110 kg 170.0 11 222.5 5 392.5 6

Wrestling

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Greco-Roman

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62 kg

  • Jindřich Vavrla – eliminated in 2nd round

74 kg

  • Jaroslav zeman – 7th place

82 kg

  • Pavel frinta – 8th place

Freestyle

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74 kg

  • Milan Revický – eliminated in 3rd round

82 kg

  • Jozef Lohyňa – 5th place

90 kg

  • Josef palatinus – eliminated in 3rd round

82 kg

  • Juraj Štech – eliminated in 2nd round

References

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  1. ^ "Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  2. ^ Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Summer Olympics