Czech Republic at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Czech Republic at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Czech Republic at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Czech Republic – Flag bearers
IOC code  CZE
NOC Czech Olympic Committee
Website www.olympic.cz (Czech)
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano
Competitors 61 (48 men, 13 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer Lubomír Buchta (cross-country skiing)
Medals
Rank: 14		 Gold
1		 Silver
1		 Bronze
1		 Total
3
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The Czech Republic competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The medal hopes were set on ice hockey team and Kateřina Neumannová in cross-country skiing. The ice hockey team won their first gold medal in history. Kateřina Neumannová was also successful, winning one silver and one bronze medal. The surprise performance for the team was freestyle skier Aleš Valenta who came fourth.

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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team
Jan Caloun   Frantisek Kucera   Martin Rucinsky
Roman Cechmanek   Robert Lang   Vladimir Ruzicka
Jiri Dopita   David Moravec   Jiri Slegr
Roman Hamrlik   Pavel Patera   Richard Smehlik
Dominik Hasek   Libor Prochazka   Jaroslav Spacek
Milan Hejduk   Martin Prochazka   Martin Straka
Milan Hnilička   Robert Reichel   Petr Svoboda
Jaromir Jagr
Ice hockey Men's competition
 Silver Neumannová, KateřinaKateřina Neumannová Cross-country skiing Women's 5 km (classical)
 Bronze Neumannová, KateřinaKateřina Neumannová Cross-country skiing Women's 10 km pursuit (freestyle)

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Marcel Maxa Giant Slalom 1:25.88 1:23.63 2:49.51 29
Marcel Maxa Slalom 57.81 DNF DNF –

Men's combined

Athlete Slalom Downhill Total
Time 1 Time 2 Time Total time Rank
Marcel Maxa 49.73 46.44 DSQ DSQ –


Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Lucie Hrstková Downhill 1:33.00 31
Lucie Hrstková Super-G 1:21.74 35
Lucie Hrstková Giant Slalom DNF – DNF –
Lucie Hrstková Slalom DNF – DNF –

Women's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Total time Rank
Lucie Hrstková 1:33.29 39.30 37.37 2:49.96 15

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Petr Garabík 3 30:51.3 53
Zdeněk Vítek 2 30:46.5 51
Ivan Masařík 2 28:58.6 15
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Petr Garabík 58:28.8 6 1'04:28.8 56
Jiří Holubec 59:08.8 2 1'01:08.8 34
Ivan Masařík 56:30.7 1 57:30.7 4
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Petr Garabík
Zdeněk Vítek
Jiří Holubec
Ivan Masařík		 0 1'26:35.5 14


Women
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
7.5 km Sprint Kateřina Losmanová-Holubcová 3 26:51.7 57
Irena Novotná-Česneková 3 25:30.4 40
Jiřína Adamičková-Pelcová 1 25:14.5 35
Eva Háková 1 24:58.6 26
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
15 km Eva Háková 57:25.4 6 1'03:25.4 53
Kateřina Losmanová-Holubcová 1'00:48.9 1 1'01:48.9 44
Jiřína Adamičková-Pelcová 58:26.3 3 1'01:26.3 38
Irena Novotná-Česneková 57:09.0 3 1'00:09.0 30
Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Kateřina Losmanová-Holubcová
Irena Novotná-Česneková
Jiřína Adamičková-Pelcová
Eva Háková		 0 1'43:20.5 6

1A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
CZE-1 Jiří Dzmura
Pavel Polomský		 Two-man 55.30 16 55.11 17 DNF – – – DNF –
CZE-2 Pavel Puškár
Jan Kobián		 Two-man 54.99 12 54.60 5 54.46 8 54.54 7 3:38.59 8
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
CZE-1 Pavel Puškár
Peter Kondrát
Pavel Polomský
Jan Kobián		 Four-man 53.61 12 53.80 16 53.88 11 2:41.29 13

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
10 km
C		 Lubomír Buchta 30:38.4 52
Lukáš Bauer 30:11.1 45
Martin Koukal 29:41.8 35
Petr Michl 29:28.5 32
15 km
pursuit1
F		 Lubomír Buchta 45:36.6 50
Martin Koukal 44:41.8 37
Lukáš Bauer 44:16.3 32
Petr Michl 42:47.5 23
30 km
C		 Lubomír Buchta DNF –
Lukáš Bauer 1'42:08.8 33
Jiří Magál 1'40:29.6 22
50 km
F		 Jiří Magál 2'21:30.5 47
Petr Michl 2'13:08.3 17
Lubomír Buchta 2'11:34.8 13

1 Starting delay based om 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Men's 4 x 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Lukáš Bauer
Martin Koukal
Petr Michl
Jiří Magál		 1'45:35.4 15


Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C		 Zuzana Kocumová 19:58.3 59
Jana Šaldová 19:00.4 28
Kateřina Hanušová 18:49.1 22
Kateřina Neumannová 17:42.7 2
10 km
pursuit2
F		 Zuzana Kocumová 32:34.9 41
Kateřina Hanušová 30:58.8 24
Kateřina Neumannová 28:37.2 3
15 km
C		 Iveta Zelingerová-Fortová 52:26.3 44
Jana Šaldová 51:33.8 29
Kateřina Neumannová 49:01.9 9
30 km
F		 Zuzana Kocumová 1'32:52.1 35
Kateřina Hanušová 1'29:59.9 23

2 Starting delay based om 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women's 4 x 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Jana Šaldová
Kateřina Neumannová
Kateřina Hanušová
Zuzana Kocumová		 56:58.7 6

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Women
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Lenka Kulovaná 16 18 26.0 18
Pairs
Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Kateřina Beránková
Otto Dlabola		 14 15 22.0 15
Ice Dancing
Athletes CD1 CD2 OD FD TFP Rank
Kateřina Mrázová
Martin Šimeček		 13 13 13 13 26.0 13

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Points Rank Points Rank
Aleš Valenta Aerials 205.50 11 Q 232.25 4

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's Tournament

First Round - Group D

Team GP W L T GF GA GD Pts
 Russia 3 3 0 0 15 6 +9 6
 Czech Republic 3 2 1 0 12 4 +8 4
 Finland 3 1 2 0 11 9 +2 2
 Kazakhstan 3 0 3 0 6 25 -19 0

All times are local (UTC-7).

13 February 1998 Czech Republic  3 – 0
(0-0, 0-1, 0-2)		  Finland The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 5,050
15 February 1998 Czech Republic  8 – 2
(0-1, 2-3, 0-4)		  Kazakhstan The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,975
16 February 1998 Russia  2 – 1
(0-0, 0-1, 2-0)		  Czech Republic The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,847


Quarter-final

All times are local (UTC-7).

18 February 1998 Czech Republic  4 – 1
(1-0, 0-3, 0-1)		  United States The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,822


Semi-final

All times are local (UTC-7).

20 February 1998 Canada  1 – 2 (SO)
(0-0, 0-0, 1-1, 0-0, 0-1)		  Czech Republic The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,279


Gold Medal Game

All times are local (UTC-7).

22 February 1998 1  Czech Republic 1 – 0
(0-0, 0-0, 1-0)		 Russia  The Big Hat/ Aqua Wing Arena, Nagano, Japan
Attendance: 9,985


Gold:
 Czech Republic
Josef Beranek
Jan Caloun
Roman Cechmanek
Jiri Dopita
Roman Hamrlik
Dominik Hasek
Milan Hejduk
Milan Hnilička
Jaromir Jagr
Frantisek Kucera
Robert Lang
David Moravec
Pavel Patera
Libor Prochazka
Martin Prochazka
Robert Reichel
Martin Rucinsky
Vladimir Ruzicka-C
Jiri Slegr
Richard Smehlik
Jaroslav Spacek
Martin Straka
Petr Svoboda

Nordic combined pictogram.svg Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country
time		 Total
rank
Points Rank
Petr Šmejc Individual 195.0 34 48:37.4 40
Ladislav Rygl 204.5 23 44:20.8 14
Jan Matura 218.0 12 47:35.0 35
Milan Kučera 228.0 8 42:45.8 5

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping
  • 5 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country
time		 Total
rank
Points Rank
Marek Fiurášek
Milan Kučera
Jan Matura
Ladislav Rygl		 900.5 4 57:04.7 8

Ski jumping pictogram.svg Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Rank Distance Points Points Rank
Jakub Sucháček Normal hill 77.5 87.5 29 Q 81.0 96.0 183.5 28
Jaroslav Sakala 77.5 89.0 28 Q 80.5 96.0 185.0 26
Michal Doležal 81.5 98.5 20 Q 87.5 112.5 211.0 11
František Jež 83.5 103.0 13 Q 77.5 89.5 192.5 24
Jaroslav Sakala Large hill 91.5 61.2 56 Did not advance
František Jež 113.5 104.3 25 Q 113.0 104.4 208.7 24
Michal Doležal 116.0 107.8 18 Q 130.5 135.4 243.2 8
Jakub Sucháček 117.5 111.0 13 Q 121.0 118.3 229.3 15
Men's team large hill
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
Jakub Sucháček
František Jež
Michal Doležal
Jaroslav Sakala		 710.3 7

1Four teams members performed two jumps each.

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