Czech Republic at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Czech Republic at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	CZE
NPC	Czech Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.cz
in Athens
Competitors	65 in 8 sports
Medals Ranked 12th	Gold 16 Silver 8 Bronze 7 Total 31
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Czech Republic competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 65 athletes, 45 men and 20 women.^[1] Competitors from Czech Republic won 31 medals, including 16 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze to finish 12th in the medal table.^[2] Among them was the flag bearer of the Czech team, Roman Musil – the most successful Czech Paralympian at the Sydney games.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Roman Musil	Athletics	Men's shot put F33/34
Gold	Radim Beles	Athletics	Men's discus throw F32/51
Gold	Milan Kubala	Athletics	Men's discus throw F36
Gold	Martin Němec	Athletics	Men's discus throw F55
Gold	Rostislav Pohlmann	Athletics	Men's discus throw F57
Gold	Veronika Foltova	Athletics	Women's shot put F35/36
Gold	Martina Kniezkova	Athletics	Women's discus throw F32-34/51-53
Gold	Veronika Foltova	Athletics	Women's throw F35/36/38
Gold	Marcel Pipek	Cycling	Men's handcycle time trial HC B/C
Gold	Jiří Ježek	Cycling	Men's bicycle road race/time trial LC2
Gold	Martin Kovar	Swimming	Men's 50m freestyle S3
Gold	Martin Kovar	Swimming	Men's 100m freestyle S3
Gold	Martin Kovar	Swimming	Men's 200m freestyle S3
Gold	Katerina Coufalova	Swimming	Women's 100m breaststroke SB9
Gold	Bela Hlaváčková	Swimming	Women's 50m backstroke S5
Gold	Frantisek Glazar Michal Stefanu Rene Taus	Table tennis	Men's teams class 5
Silver	Miroslav Sperk	Athletics	Men's discus throw F56
Silver	Radim Beles	Athletics	Men's club throw F32/51
Silver	Vladimira Bujarkova	Athletics	Women's shot put F37/38
Silver	Eva Kacanu	Athletics	Women's shot put F54/55
Silver	Veronika Foltova	Athletics	Women's javelin throw F35-38
Silver	Jiří Ježek	Cycling	Men's bicycle 4 km individual pursuit LC2
Silver	Michal Stefanu	Table tennis	Men's singles class 4
Silver	Jolana Matouskova	Table tennis	Women's singles class 10
Bronze	Dusan Grezl	Athletics	Men's shot put F38
Bronze	Frantisek Purgl	Athletics	Men's discus throw F54
Bronze	Rostislav Pohlmann	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F57
Bronze	Eva Berna	Athletics	Women's shot put F37/38
Bronze	Jiri Bouska	Cycling	Men's bicycle 1 km time trial CP 3/4
Bronze	Jiri Bouska	Cycling	Men's bicycle 3 km individual pursuit CP4
Bronze	Jiri Kaderavek	Swimming	Men's 100m freestyle S1

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Zdenek Sebek	Men's individual W1	643	3	Bye		Minami (JPN) W 103-94	Groenberg (SWE) L 96-99	Fabry (USA) L 96-108	4

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Miroslava Cerna	Women's individual W1/W2	552	5	—	Truccolo (ITA) W 119-117	Fantato (ITA) L 80-85	did not advance
Lenka Kuncova		545	9	—	Smith (GBR) L 126-147	did not advance
Marketa Sidkova		550	6	—	Parker (GBR) W 140-121	Isozaki (JPN) L 85-94	did not advance
Miroslava Cerna Lenka Kuncova Marketa Sidkova	Women's teams open	1647	3	—		Italy (ITA) L 176-201	did not advance

Czech discus thrower Veronika Foltová took the gold, setting a new Paralympic record at 23.47 meters. Martina Kniezková also won a gold medal in the discus throw, setting a new world record in category F51, repeating her triumph at Sydney.

Czech discus thrower František Pürgl initially took fourth place, before being granted the bronze medal after the handicap of the winner Mochtar from Iran was reconsidered and he was moved into other category. Athens was František Pürgl's last Paralympic Games.

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Radim Beles	F32/51	Club throw	25.44	993
		Discus	9.77	1082
Dusan Grezl	F36/38	Javelin	41.52	-	6
	F38	Discus	35.42	-	7
		Shot put	13.19	-
Miroslav Janecek	F38	Shot put	12.11	-	5
Ales Kisy	F53	Discus	17.02	-	9
		Shot put	6.86	-	6
Roman Kolek	F36/38	Javelin	39.27	-	7
	F38	Discus	36.28	-	6
		Shot put	11.72	-	6
Milan Kubala	F36	Discus	35.25	-
Roman Musil	F33/34	Discus	26.24	870	5
		Shot put	10.26	1069 PR
Martin Němec	F55	Discus	37.18 WR	-
	F55-56	Javelin	31.69	928	9
	F56	Shot put	11.09	-	4
Rostislav Pohlmann	F57	Discus	47.53 WR	-
		Javelin	37.91	-
		Shot put	DNS
Frantisek Purgl	F54	Discus	27.97	-
		Javelin	22.42	-	6
Miroslav Sperk	F56	Discus	37.30	-
		Shot put	7.42	-	18
Josef Stiak	F55-56	Javelin	31.69	989	5
	F56	Shot put	9.15	-	14
Petr Vratil	F36/38	Javelin	42.49	-	5
	F38	Discus	38.51	-	4

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Eva Berna	F35-38	Javelin	20.63	930	10
	F37	Discus	25.10	703	4
	F37/38	Shot put	9.47	1028
Vladimira Bujarkova	F37	Discus	22.51	706	7
	F37/38	Shot put	9.68	1051
Andrea Farkasova	F35/36/38	Discus	17.89	700	13
	F35-38	Javelin	22.02	946	9
	F37/38	Shot put	6.99	698	12
Jana Fesslova	F54/55	Discus	19.04	744	12
		Shot put	6.86	791	11
Veronika Foltova	F35/36	Shot put	9.47 WR	1363
	F35/36/38	Discus	23.47 PR	1323
	F35-38	Javelin	22.70	1288
Eva Kacanu	F54/55	Shot put	6.18	1016
Martina Kniezkova	F32-34/51-53	Discus	15.28	1330 WR
	F33/34/52/53	Javelin	9.42	1111	5

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ales Bidlas	Mixed individual BC3	Hanson (USA)	L 1-7	5	did not advance
		Polychronidis (GRE)	W 5-4
		Macedo (POR)	L 0-10
		Cronin (IRL)	L 0-14
Radovan Krenek		Pesquera (ESP)	L 0-6	3	did not advance
		Kabush (CAN)	L 0-9
		O'Grady (IRL)	W 3-2

Cyclist Jiří Bouška was the first to garner a medal for the Czech team. He took the bronze medal in the 1 km race. Jiří made a new world record for division 4, but after conversion of coefficients placed third in the race overall. The British competitor Darren Kenny from division 3 took home the gold medal. Jiří Bouška also took the bronze medal in the 3 km pursuit event, with teammate Luboš Jirka coming in just behind him in fourth place.

Cyclist Jiří Ježek won the silver medal in another pursuit event. He had taken the gold medal in Sydney. Jiří has a below-knee amputation. In the finals in category LC2, he could not beat Robert Alcaide from Spain. Jiří also competed in the combination event, and won the gold medal there.

Historically, the first gold medal in timed competition went to the Czech handy-cyclist, Marcel Pipek. He expressed that he had trained very hard to prepare for the race with his friend in Jeseníky.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jiri Bouska	Men's road race / time trial CP div 4	-	5
Jiří Ježek	Men's road race / time trial LC2	-
Lubos Jirka	Men's road race / time trial CP div 4	-	8
Marcel Pipek	Men's handcycle road race HC div B/C	1:25:40	6
	Men's handcycle time trial HC div B/C	17:28.09
Petr Plihal	Men's road race / time trial CP div 4	-	11
Michal Stark	Men's road race / time trial LC3	-	6
Josef Winkler	Men's tricycle road race CP div 1/2	49:21	4
	Men's tricycle time trial CP div 1/2	10:53.13	7

Athlete	Event	Qualification		1st round		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Jiri Bouska	Men's 1km time trial CP div 3/4	—				1:11.35
	Men's individual pursuit CP div 4	3:47.32	3 Q	Herholdt (RSA) W 3:43.61	3 q	Jirka (CZE) W 3:46.62
Jiří Ježek	Men's 1km time trial LC1-4	—				1:11.35	9
	Men's individual pursuit LC2	5:06.85	2 Q	Granado (ESP) W 5:01.43	2 Q	Alcaide (ESP) L 5:01.23
Lubos Jirka	Men's 1km time trial CP div 3/4	—				1:15.62	7
	Men's individual pursuit CP div 4	3:53.71	4 Q	Lungershausen (GER) W 3:53.36	4 q	Bouska (CZE) L 3:52.22	4
Petr Plihal	Men's 1km time trial CP div 3/4	—				1:20.38	15
	Men's individual pursuit CP div 4	4:16.37	11	did not advance
Michal Stark	Men's 1km time trial LC1-4	—				1:12.94	14
	Men's individual pursuit LC3	4:16.27	7 Q	Graf (GER) L 4:13.99	6	did not advance
Jiri Bouska Jiří Ježek Michal Stark	Men's team sprint LC1-4/CP 3/4	57.659	5	Germany (GER) L 57.285	5	did not advance

Czech swimmers had a successful showing at the games as well. Swimmer Martin Kovář won the 100 meter freestyle competition, taking home the gold medal and setting a new world record. He bested his previous world record that had held for 3 months old, by over 2 seconds. He has now confirmed his absolute sovereignty in the S3 category. Martin also took home the gold in the 200 meter free style event, again setting a world record, despite having to swim the competition from the lane 8.

In category S1, Jiří Kadeřávek won the bronze medal in the 100 meter crawl. He also participated in the rugby union event at the games.

Less than six months after giving birth, Běla Hlaváčková returned to compete in the swimming events and won a gold medal for the 50 meter backstroke Her biggest competitor, Beatrice Hess from France, finished just after her. Kateřina Lišková also participated in this event, placing fourth.

Swimmer Kateřina Coufalová won the next gold medal for the Czech team in the 100 meter breaststroke competition in category SB9. This category is for competitors with an amputated arm. After her triumph in Atlanta, this marked the second gold medal in her career.

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Petr Andrysek	S6	400m freestyle	6:19.19	13	did not advance
Filip Coufal	S10	50m freestyle	26.94	11	did not advance
		100m freestyle	58.13	9	did not advance
		400m freestyle	4:42.97	11	did not advance
		100m backstroke	1:11.28	12	did not advance
		100m butterfly	1:07.28	13	did not advance
	SM10	200m individual medley	2:28.24	8 Q	2:31.46	8
Vojtech Franek	S2	50m freestyle	1:17.51	7 Q	1:19.79	8
		100m freestyle	2:52.46	8 Q	2:50.16	8
		200m freestyle	6:22.01	10	did not advance
		50m backstroke	1:17.67	6 Q	1:17.31	6
Jiri Kaderavek	S1	50m freestyle	N/A		1:54.32	4
		100m freestyle	N/A		3:40.46
		50m backstroke	N/A		1:48.23	4
Martin Kovar	S3	50m freestyle	47.04 PR	1 Q	45.65 WR
		100m freestyle	1:57.09	3 Q	1:43.51 PR
		200m freestyle	4:30.18	7 Q	3:42.63 WR
		50m backstroke	57.00	3 Q	58.73	4
Dalibor Mach	S7	50m freestyle	32.95	14	did not advance
		100m freestyle	1:11.73	9	did not advance
		400m freestyle	5:38.41	10	did not advance
		50m butterfly	37.91	12	did not advance
	SB6	100m breaststroke	N/A		1:44.11	8
	SM7	200m individual medley	3:15.18	13	did not advance
Pavel Machala	S9	50m freestyle	28.47	17	did not advance
		100m freestyle	1:02.29	16	did not advance
Jan Povysil	S4	50m freestyle	41.61	4 Q	42.33	6
		100m freestyle	1:31.72	5 Q	1:38.38	7
		200m freestyle	3:24.27	6 Q	3:22.85	5
		50m backstroke	53.40	4 Q	54.82	8
		50m butterfly	1:07.18	8 Q	1:07.65	7
	SB3	50m breaststroke	58.74	8 Q	59.16	8
	SM4	150m individual medley	3:04.57	10	did not advance
Tomas Scharf	S7	50m freestyle	32.67	13	did not advance
		50m butterfly	39.68	14	did not advance
Martin Štěpánek	S13	50m freestyle	27.36	9	did not advance
		100m freestyle	1:00.66	9	did not advance
		100m backstroke	1:13.67	8 Q	1:12.66	8
	SB13	100m breaststroke	1:18.19	6 Q	DSQ
	SM13	200m individual medley	2:36.81	7 Q	2:35.22	7
Lukas Urbanek	S10	100m freestyle	58.64	12	did not advance
		400m freestyle	4:32.68	7 Q	4:29.82	6
Petr Andrysek Martin Kovar Jan Povysil Tomas Scharf	N/A	4 × 50 m freestyle relay (20pts)	2:45.23	5 Q	2:41.37	5
Filip Coufal Dalibor Mach Tomas Scharf Lukas Urbanek	N/A	4 × 100 m freestyle relay (34pts)	4:21.77	8 Q	4:22.35	8
Martin Kovar Dalibor Mach Jan Povysil Tomas Scharf	N/A	4 × 50 m medley relay (20pts)	3:08.36	8 Q	3:12.82	8

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Katerina Coufalova	SB9	100m breaststroke	1:23.19	1 Q	1:24.17
Tereza Diepoldova	S9	400m freestyle	5:26.49	11	did not advance
		100m backstroke	1:23.94	13	did not advance
	SM9	200m individual medley	3:04.77	14	did not advance
Bela Hlaváčková	S5	50m freestyle	38.46	3 Q	38.42	4
		100m freestyle	1:25.80	5 Q	1:25.36	5
		50m backstroke	41.78	1 Q	42.36
		50m butterfly	N/A		50.84	5
	SB4	100m breaststroke	2:04.58	6 Q	2:06.17	6
Petra Hrabinova	S7	400m freestyle	6:50.02	12	did not advance
	SB6	100m breaststroke	1:56.34	5 Q	1:55.10	6
Katerina Liskova	S5	50m freestyle	43.56	6 Q	43.83	6
		100m freestyle	1:32.77	6 Q	1:30.18	6
		200m freestyle	3:15.54	4 Q	3:18.55	4
		50m backstroke	49.97	4 Q	51.11	4

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jaroslav Cieslar	Men's singles 9	Last (NED) W 3-2	Alimardani (IRI) W 3-0	Gubica (CRO) W 3-0	1 Q	Lu X (CHN) L 1-3	did not advance
Miroslav Cinibulk		Hsu C S (TPE) L 2-3	Serignat (FRA) L 0-3	Gutdeutsch (AUT) L 2-3	4	did not advance
Milan Duracka	Men's singles 7	Furlan (ITA) L 0-3	Morales (ESP) L 0-3	Lima (BRA) W 3-1	3	did not advance
Frantisek Glazar	Men's singles 3	Kesler (SCG) L 2-3	Kramminger (AUT) L 2-3	Siachos (GRE) W 3–0	3	did not advance
Ivan Karavec	Men's singles 10	Altaratz (ISR) W 3-1	Agudo (ESP) DSQ	—	3	did not advance
Jiri Soukup	Men's singles 8	Ledoux (BEL) L 0-3	Lo (USA) W 3-0	J du Plooy (RSA) W 3-1	2 Q	—	Frommelt (LIE) L 2-3	did not advance
Michal Stefanu	Men's singles 4	Zhang Y (CHN) L 0-3	A Chan (GBR) W 3-0	Freitas (BRA) W 3-0	2 Q	Pechard (FRA) W 3-1	Ghion (BEL) W 3-1	Choi K S (KOR) W 3-0	Zhang Y (CHN) L 2-3
Rene Taus	Men's singles 5	Urhaug (NOR) L 0-3	Rosec (FRA) L 1-3	—	3	did not advance
Tomas Vrbka	Men's singles 10	de la Bourdonnaye (FRA) L 0-3	Vivanco (MEX) W 3-0	Khalil (JOR) W 3-0	2 Q	—	Gaspar (SVK) L 0-3	did not advance
Frantisek Glazar Michal Stefanu Rene Taus	Men's teams 5	Germany (GER) W 3-0	Japan (JPN) W 3-1	—	1 Q	—	Sweden (SWE) W 3-1	France (FRA) W 3-2	South Korea (KOR) W 3-2
Milan Duracka Jiri Soukup	Men's team 8	Belgium (BEL) L 0-3	China (CHN) L 1-3	Spain (ESP) L 0-3	4	did not advance
Jaroslav Cieslar Miroslav Cinibulk Ivan Karabec Tomas Vrbka	Men's team 10	Sweden (SWE) W 3-1	Italy (ITA) W 3-1	Hungary (HUN) W 3-0	1 Q	—		France (FRA) L 1-3	Sweden (SWE) L 1-3	4

Ivan Karabec was disqualified due to excessive use of prohibited solvents on his rackets: he was out of the competition.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jaroslava Janeckova	Women's singles 6-8	Turowska (POL) L 1-3	Tchebanika (RUS) W 3-2	—	2 Q	Ovsjannikova (RUS) L 1-3	did not advance
Jolana Matouskova	Women's singles 10	Li Y Q (CHN) W 3-1	Jagodzinska (POL) W 3-0	Sevin (FRA) W/O	1 Q	—	Kudo (JPN) W 3-2	Partyka (POL) L 0-3
Jitka Pivarciova	Women's singles 5	Hoffmann (MEX) W 3–0	Bessho (JPN) W 3–1	Gu G (CHN) W 3-1	1 Q	Palasse (FRA) W 3-1	Ren G X (CHN) L 1-3	Wei M H (TPE) L 2-3	4
Michala Zakova	Women's singles 10	Partyka (POL) L 0-3	Kudo (JPN) L 0-3	le Morvan (FRA) W 3-2	3	did not advance

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Miroslav Brychta	Open	Men's singles	Hubbard (RSA) W 6–0, 6–0	Olsson (SWE) W 7–5, 6–2	Jeremiasz (FRA) L 3–6, 2–6	did not advance

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