Jiří Prskavec (canoeist, born 1993)
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Czech |
Born | Mělník, Czech Republic | 18 May 1993
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Czech Republic |
Sport | Canoe slalom |
Event(s) | K1 |
Club | USK Praha |
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Medal record |
Jiří Prskavec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈpr̩skavɛts]; born 18 May 1993) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008.
Career[]
Prskavec won a bronze medal in the K1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro[1] and gold at the K1 event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[2]
He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with four golds (K1: 2015, 2019; K1 team: 2015, 2017), four silvers (K1: 2013, 2018; K1 team: 2014, 2019) and a bronze (K1 team: 2018). He also won ten gold, one silver and three bronze medals at the European Championships.[3]
Prskavec won the overall World Cup title in the K1 class in 2018 and 2019.
Prskavec competed at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics where he won bronze in the K1 slalom event.
His father Jiří is a former slalom canoeist and a medalist from World and European Championships.[4]
Results[]
World Cup individual podiums[]
Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event |
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2014 | 21 June 2014 | Prague | 2nd | K1 |
2015 | 20 June 2015 | Prague | 1st | K1 |
2016 | 3 September 2016 | Prague | 1st | K1 |
2017 | 17 June 2017 | Prague | 2nd | K1 |
24 June 2017 | Augsburg | 3rd | K1 | |
9 September 2017 | La Seu d'Urgell | 3rd | K1 | |
2018 | 1 July 2018 | Kraków | 3rd | K1 |
8 July 2018 | Augsburg | 2nd | K1 | |
31 August 2018 | Tacen | 2nd | K1 | |
9 September 2018 | La Seu d'Urgell | 3rd | K1 | |
2019 | 16 June 2019 | Lee Valley | 2nd | K1 |
30 June 2019 | Tacen | 3rd | K1 | |
1 September 2019 | Markkleeberg | 3rd | K1 | |
8 September 2019 | Prague | 1st | K1 | |
2021 | 12 June 2021 | Prague | 1st | K1 |
Complete World Cup results[]
Year | WC1 | WC2 | WC3 | WC4 | WC5 | Points | Position |
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2008 | Continent 19 |
Prague |
Tacen |
Augsburg |
24 | 93rd | |
2010 | Continent 23 |
Prague |
La Seu |
Augsburg |
20 | 81st | |
2011 | Tacen 14 |
L'Argentière 6 |
Markkleeberg |
Prague 6 |
115 | 8th | |
2012 | Cardiff |
Pau |
La Seu |
Prague |
Bratislava 55 |
2 | 100th |
2013 | Cardiff 5 |
Augsburg 6 |
La Seu 37 |
Tacen |
Bratislava |
93 | 17th |
2014 | Lee Valley 13 |
Tacen 32 |
Prague 2 |
La Seu 11 |
Augsburg 19 |
186 | 6th |
2015 | Prague 1 |
Kraków 15 |
Liptovský Mikuláš 15 |
La Seu |
Pau |
120 | 22nd |
2016 | Ivrea |
La Seu |
Pau |
Prague 1 |
Tacen |
60 | 42nd |
2017 | Prague 2 |
Augsburg 3 |
Markkleeberg 6 |
Ivrea |
La Seu 3 |
247 | 4th |
2018 | Liptovský Mikuláš 4 |
Kraków 3 |
Augsburg 2 |
Tacen 2 |
La Seu 3 |
304 | 1st |
2019 | Lee Valley 2 |
Bratislava 4 |
Tacen 3 |
Markkleeberg 3 |
Prague 1 |
319 | 1st |
2021 | Prague 1 |
Markkleeberg |
La Seu |
Pau |
60* | 20th* |
* Season still in progress.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jiří Prskavec Archived 14 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ "Dokázal to! Prskavec vybojoval olympijské zlato". PRÁVO. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Jiri PRSKAVEC (CZE)". CanoeSlalom.net. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
- ^ "Jiří Prskavec". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jiří Prskavec. |
- Jiří Prskavec at the International Canoe Federation
- Jiří Prskavec at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1993 births
- Czech male canoeists
- Living people
- Canoeists at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- People from Mělník
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists of the Czech Republic
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
- Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Czech Republic canoeist stubs