Czech Republic at the 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CZE
NOC	Czech Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.cz (in Czech and English)
in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 (2021-07-23) – August 8, 2021 (2021-08-08)
Competitors	115 in 22 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Petra Kvitová Tomáš Satoranský
Flag bearer (closing)	Jakub Vadlejch
Medals Ranked 18th	Gold 4 Silver 4 Bronze 3 Total 11
Summer Olympics appearances ( overview)
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The Czech Republic competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[1] It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after splitting from the former Czechoslovakia.

Several team members, including table tennis player Pavel Širuček, beach volleyball players Ondřej Perušič and Markéta Sluková and road cyclist Michal Schlegel, and delegation members were tested positive for COVID-19 in Tokyo. ^{[2] [3]} The anti-epidemic measures were not followed on a charter flight of the Czech team and delegation, ^{[4] [2]} the case positivity of unvaccinated tennis doctor (despite wide vaccine availability in the Czech Republic) have caused most controversies. ^[2]

For the Czech Republic, these were the most successful Olympic Games in terms of medals. Czech athletes broke the previous record from the Olympics in 1996 and 2012 by one silver medal.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Jiří Lipták	Shooting	Men's trap	29 July
Gold	Jiří Prskavec	Canoeing	Men's slalom K-1	30 July
Gold	Lukáš Krpálek	Judo	Men's +100 kg	30 July
Gold	Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková	Tennis	Women's doubles	1 August
Silver	Lukáš Rohan	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-1	26 July
Silver	David Kostelecký	Shooting	Men's trap	29 July
Silver	Markéta Vondroušová	Tennis	Women's Singles	31 July
Silver	Jakub Vadlejch	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	7 August
Bronze	Alexander Choupenitch	Fencing	Men's foil	26 July
Bronze	Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf	Canoeing	Men's K-2 1000 metres	5 August
Bronze	Vítězslav Veselý	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	7 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Archery

One Czech Republic archer directly qualified for the women's individual recurve at the Games by reaching the semifinal stage and obtaining one of five available spots at the 2021 Final Qualification Tournament in Paris, France.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Marie Horáčková	Women's individual	636	34	Nakamura ( JPN) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

Czech athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): ^{[5] [6]}

Track & road events

Men

Women

Field events

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Tomáš Staněk	Shot put	20.47	17	Did not advance
Jakub Vadlejch	Javelin throw	84.93	4 Q	86.67 SB
Vítězslav Veselý		83.04	8 Q	85.44 SB

Women

Combined events - Men's decathlon

Basketball

Men's tournament

The Czech Republic men's basketball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Victoria. ^[7]

Team roster

The roster was announced on 8 July 2021. ^[8]

Czech Republic men's national basketball team roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. PF 1 Patrik Auda 31 – (1989-08-29)29 August 1989 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Yokohama B-Corsairs PG 4 Tomáš Vyoral 28 – (1992-09-28)28 September 1992 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Pardubice PG 8 Tomáš Satoranský 29 – (1991-10-30)30 October 1991 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Chicago Bulls F 11 Blake Schilb 37 – (1983-12-23)23 December 1983 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) USK Praha C 12 Ondřej Balvín 28 – (1992-09-20)20 September 1992 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in) Bilbao PG 13 Jakub Šiřina 33 – (1987-11-21)21 November 1987 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Opava PF 15 Martin Peterka 26 – (1995-01-12)12 January 1995 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Braunschweig F 17 Jaromír Bohačík 29 – (1992-05-26)26 May 1992 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) Strasbourg PG 19 Ondřej Sehnal 23 – (1997-10-10)10 October 1997 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Praha SF 23 Lukáš Palyza 31 – (1989-11-10)10 November 1989 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) Nymburk C 24 Jan Veselý 31 – (1990-04-24)24 April 1990 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) Fenerbahçe SG 25 David Jelínek 30 – (1990-09-07)7 September 1990 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) Andorra	Head coach Ronen Ginzburg [9] Assistant coach(es) Petr Czudek Jan Pospíšil Legend Club – describes last club before the competition Age – describes age on 25 July 2021

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	259	215	+44	6	Quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	1	315	233	+82	5
3	Czech Republic	3	1	2	245	294	−49	4
4	Iran	3	0	3	206	283	−77	3

25 July 2021 (2021-07-25) 10:00 v

Boxscore

Iran	78–84	Czech Republic
Scoring by quarter: 19–25, 11–21, 16–21, 32–17
Pts: Yakhchali 23 Rebs: Haddadi 10 Asts: Jamshidi 7		Pts: Auda 16 Rebs: Balvín, Satoranský 8 Asts: Satoranský 8

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Matthew Kallio (CAN), Scott Beker (AUS), Yener Yılmaz (TUR)

28 July 2021 (2021-07-28) 21:00 v

Boxscore

Czech Republic	77–97	France
Scoring by quarter: 28–22, 12–29, 16–26, 21–20
Pts: Veselý 19 Rebs: Balvín 8 Asts: Satoranský 9		Pts: Fournier 21 Rebs: Gobert 10 Asts: De Colo 8

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Juan Fernández (ARG), Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Leandro Lezcano (ARG)

31 July 2021 (2021-07-31) 21:00 v

Boxscore

United States	119–84	Czech Republic
Scoring by quarter: 18–25, 29–18, 35–17, 37–24
Pts: Tatum 27 Rebs: Durant 8 Asts: Durant 6		Pts: Schilb 17 Rebs: Satoranský 6 Asts: Satoranský 8

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Maripier Malo (CAN)

Canoeing

Slalom

Czech canoeists qualified boats in all four classes for the Games through the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain. ^[10]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lukáš Rohan	Men's C-1	103.98	9	102.15	6	102.15	8 Q	103.68	4 Q	101.96
Jiří Prskavec	Men's K-1	92.57	3	91.71	4	91.71	4 Q	94.29	1 Q	91.63
Tereza Fišerová	Women's C-1	110.45	3	109.16	3	109.16	3 Q	113.23	2	120.99	6
Kateřina Minařík Kudějová	Women's K-1	107.78	4	106.41	6	106.41	6 Q	114.15	15	Did not advance

Sprint

Czech canoeists qualified four boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. ^[11]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Martin Fuksa	Men's C-1 1000 m	4:01.620	2 SF	Bye		4:04.220	3	4:08.755	5
Petr Fuksa	Men's C-1 1000 m	4:14.482	3 QF	4:14.476	4	Did not advance
Josef Dostál	Men's K-1 1000 m	3:37.342	1 SF	Bye		3:25.387	2 Q	3:26.610	5
Martin Fuksa Petr Fuksa	Men's C-2 1000 m	3:53.056	3 QF	3:50.635	2 SF	3:28.927	5 FB	3:31.240	10
Josef Dostál Radek Šlouf	Men's K-2 1000 m	3:13.425	2 SF	Bye		3:18.240	4 FA	3:16.106

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

Czech Republic entered a squad of four riders (three men and one woman) to compete in their respective Olympic road races, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) and her top 100 individual finish (for women) in the UCI World Ranking. ^[12]

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Czech Republic entered one rider to compete in the men's sprint and keirin based on his final individual UCI Olympic rankings.

Sprint

Keirin

Mountain biking

Czech Republic qualified two mountain bikers; one male and one female, based on the UCI Olympic Mountain Biking rankings.

Equestrian

Czech Republic entered two eventing riders into the Olympic equestrian competition by securing the first and fifth of six available slots, respectively, outside the group and continental selection, in the individual FEI Olympic rankings. ^[13] Meanwhile, a squad of three jumping riders was added to the Czech roster by accepting a forfeited spot from Ukraine, as the next highest-ranked team, not yet qualified, at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI)-designated Olympic qualifier for the second batch of Group C (Central and Eastern Europe) in Budapest. ^[14]

Eventing

Jumping

Fencing

Czech Republic entered two fencers into the Olympic competition. Jakub Jurka (men's épée) and Rio 2016 Olympian Alexander Choupenitch (men's foil) claimed the fencing spots on the Czech roster as the sole winners of their respective individual events at the European Zonal Qualifier in Madrid, Spain. ^[15]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jakub Jurka	Men's épée	Bye	Minobe ( JPN) L 14–15	Did not advance
Alexander Choupenitch	Men's foil	Bye	Llavador ( ESP) W 15–11	Joppich ( GER) W 15–13	Hamza ( EGY) W 15–9	Cheung K-l ( HKG) L 10–15	Shikine ( JPN) W 15–8

Golf

Czech Republic entered one male and one female golfer into the Olympic tournament.

Gymnastics

Artistic

Czech Republic entered two artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Aneta Holasová booked a spot in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing eleventh out of the twenty gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. ^[16]

Men

Women

Judo

Czech Republic entered two male judoka into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking. ^[17]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
David Klammert	Men's −90 kg	Kochman ( ISR) L 00–10	Did not advance
Lukáš Krpálek	Men's +100 kg	Bye	Mahjoub ( EOR) W 11–00	Oltiboev ( UZB) W 01–00	Harasawa ( JPN) W 01–00	Bye	Tushishvili ( GEO) W 10–00

Modern pentathlon

Czech athletes qualified for the following spots in the modern pentathlon at the Games. Martin Vlach secured his selection in the men's event with a bronze-medal finish and third among those eligible for Olympic qualification at the 2019 European Championships in Bath, England. ^[18]

Rowing

Czech Republic qualified three boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Rowing crews in the men's single sculls and women's double sculls confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the 2019 FISA World Championships in Ottensheim, Austria. ^{[19] [20]} Meanwhile, two more crews (men's double sculls and men's lightweight double sculls) were added to the Czech roster with their top-two finish at the 2021 FISA Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. ^[21]

Men

Women

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Czech sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships and the continental regattas. ^[22]

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Czech shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 May 2020. ^[23]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
David Hrčkulák	10 m air rifle	625.7	19	Did not advance
David Kostelecký	Trap	123	4 Q	43+6
Jiří Lipták		124	1 Q	43+7
Petr Nymburský	50 m rifle 3 positions	1169	17	Did not advance
Jiří Přívratský	10 m air rifle	626.8	14	Did not advance
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1169	16	Did not advance
Jakub Tomeček	Skeet	122	7	Did not advance

Women

Mixed

Sport climbing

Czech Republic entered one sport climber into the Olympic tournament. Multiple bouldering and lead world champion Adam Ondra qualified directly for the men's combined event, by advancing to the final and securing the first of the six provisional berths at the IFSC World Olympic Qualifying Event in Toulouse, France. ^{[24] [25]}

Swimming

Czech swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): ^{[26] [27]}

Men

Women

Table tennis

Czech Republic entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Rio 2016 Olympian Lubomír Jančařík scored a first-match final triumph to book one of the four available places in the men's singles at the 2021 ITTF World Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar. ^[28] Meanwhile, Pavel Širuček reserved the last of the five Olympic slots available in the men's singles through a repechage play-off at the European Qualification Tournament in Odivelas, Portugal, thereby joining Jančarík on the country's roster for his maiden Games. ^[29] On the women's side, Hana Matelová secured a singles spot as one of the top-ten table tennis players vying for qualification in the ITTF Olympic Rankings of June 1, 2021.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lubomír Jančařík	Men's singles	Bye	Al-Khadrawi ( KSA) W 4–0	Gerassimenko ( KAZ) L 3–4	Did not advance
Pavel Širuček			Powell ( AUS) L WO	Did not advance
Hana Matelová	Women's singles	Bye		Paranang ( THA) L 2–4	Did not advance

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Tomáš Macháč	Singles	Sousa ( POR) W 6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–4	Schwartzman ( ARG) L 4–6, 5–7	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Barbora Krejčíková	Singles	Diyas ( KAZ) W 5–2, ret	Fernandez ( CAN) W 6–2, 6–4	Bencic ( SUI) L 6–1, 2–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Petra Kvitová		Paolini ( ITA) W 6–4, 6–3	Van Uytvanck ( BEL) L 7–5, 3–6, 0–6	Did not advance
Karolína Plíšková		Cornet ( FRA) W 6–1, 6–3	Suárez ( ESP) W 6–3, 6–7(0–7), 6–1	Giorgi ( ITA) L 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Markéta Vondroušová		Bertens ( NED) W 6–4, 3–6, 6–4	Buzǎrnescu ( ROU) W 6–1, 6–2	Osaka ( JPN) W 6–1, 6–4	Badosa ( ESP) W 6–3, ret	Svitolina ( UKR) W 6–3, 6–1	Bencic ( SUI) L 5–7, 6–2, 3–6
Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková	Doubles	—	Hsieh Y-c / Hsu C-y ( TPE) W 6–2, 6–1	Badosa / Sorribes ( ESP) W 6–2, 5–7, [10–5]	Barty / Sanders ( AUS) W 3–6, 6–4, [10–7]	Kudermetova / Vesnina ( ROC) W 6–3, 3–6, [10–6]	Bencic / Golubic ( SUI) W 7–5, 6–1
Karolína Plíšková Markéta Vondroušová		—	Duan Yy / Zheng Ss ( CHN) W 6–2, 6–1	Pigossi / Stefani ( BRA) L 6–2, 4–6, [11–13]	Did not advance

Triathlon

The Czech Republic has entered two triathletes to compete at the Games.

Volleyball

Beach

Czech Republic men's and women's beach volleyball teams qualified directly for the Olympics by virtue of their nation's top 15 placement in the FIVB Olympic Rankings of 13 June 2021. ^[30]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round				Repechage	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ondřej Perušič David Schweiner	Men's	Pļaviņš / Točs ( LAT) L (0–21, 0–21) [I]	Gaxiola / Rubio ( MEX) W (17–21, 21–16, 16–14)	Krasilnikov / Stoyanovskiy ( ROC) L (21–19, 13–21, 8–15)	4	Did not advance
Barbora Hermannová Markéta Sluková	Women's	Ishii / Murakami ( JPN) L (0–21, 0–21) [I]	Betschart / Hüberli ( SUI) L (0–21, 0–21) [I]	Kozuch / Ludwig ( GER) L (0–21, 0–21) [I]	4 [I]	Did not advance

Note ^{^} Because of COVID-19 regulations, Barbora Hermannová and Markéta Sluková were unable to play three matches in the women's beach volleyball tournament, with Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner missing a single match on the men's side. According to the beach volleyball rules, both Czech teams were awarded a direct defeat and single point, while their opponents received two points and a walkover win. ^[31]

Weightlifting

Czech Republic weightlifters qualified for one quota places at the games, based on the Tokyo 2020 Rankings Qualification List of 11 June 2021. ^[32]

Wrestling

Czech Republic qualified one wrestler for the men's Greco-Roman 97 kg into the Olympic competition, by progressing to the top two finals at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria. ^[33]

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Artur Omarov	Men's −97 kg	Szőke ( HUN) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance				11

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