Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games

Flag of CzechoslovakiaFlag bearers
IOC code   TCH
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville
Competitors 74 (55 men, 19 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer Pavel Benc (cross-country skiing)
Medals
Rank: 18
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
3
Total
3
Olympic history (summary)
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Other related appearances
Bohemia (19001912)
Czech Republic (1994–)
Slovakia (1994–)

Czechoslovakia competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. The team consisted of 74 athletes, which was the largest number at that time. It was the last time Czechoslovakia participated in the Winter Olympics, because the state split to Czech Republic and Slovakia and both countries entered their independent teams to the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Cross-country skier Pavel Benc was the flag-bearer of the country in the opening ceremony.

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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Bronze Barna, PetrPetr Barna Figure skating Men's singles
 Bronze Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team
Patrik Augusta   Drahomír Kadlec   Bedřich Ščerban
Petr Bříza   Kamil Kašťák   Jiří Šlégr
Leo Gudas   Robert Lang   Richard Šmehlík
Miloslav Hořava   Igor Liba   Róbert Švehla
Petr Hrbek   Ladislav Lubina   Oldřich Svoboda
Otakar Janecký   František Procházka   Radek Ťoupal
Tomáš Jelínek   Petr Rosol   Peter Veselovský
Richard Žemlička
Ice hockey Men's competition
 Bronze Goder, TomášTomáš Goder
Jež, FrantišekFrantišek Jež
Sakala, JaroslavJaroslav Sakala
Parma, JiříJiří Parma
Ski jumping Men's team large hill

Results by event

Alpine Skiing

Czechoslovakias participation in the alpine skiing races was done by four skiers, all Slovaks. Lucia Medzihradská was the most successful of them reaching top eight in the womens combined event.

Mens Downhill

  • Marian Bíreš1:56.21 (34th)

Mens Super-G

  • Marian Bíreš1:17.47 (37th)
  • Peter Jurko1:17.68 (39th)

Mens Giant Slalom

  • Marian Bíreš2:18.11 (34th)
  • Peter Jurko2:19.15 (37th)

Mens Slalom

  • Peter Jurko1:52.80 (25th)
  • Marian Bírešdid not finish 1st round

Mens Combined

  • Peter JurkoDownhill: 1:58,27 (52th), did not finish Slalom 1st run
  • Marian BírešDownhill: 1:49,61 (37th), did not finish Slalom 1st run

Womens Downhill

  • Lucia Medzihradská1:54.78 (16th)
  • Ľudmila Milanová1:57.85 (24th)

Womens Super-G

  • Lucia Medzihradská1:26.76 (27th)
  • Ľudmila Milanová1:27.61 (34th)

Womens Giant Slalom

  • Lucia Medzihradská2:19.27 (20th)
  • Ľudmila Milanovádid not finish 1st round

Womens Slalom

  • Lucia Medzihradská1:36.45 (16th)
  • Ľudmila Milanová1:39.78 (24th)

Womens Combined

  • Lucia Medzihradská47.43 (8th)
  • Ľudmila Milanová76.28 (15th)

Biathlon

Jiřina Adamičková was close to winning a medal in the womens sprint, fighting for it after last shooting, but fading fast in the closing uphill section and falling down to fifth place, seven seconds behind bronze-medal Belova of the Unified Team.

Mens Sprint

  • Ivan Masařík27:16.8 (12th)
  • Tomáš Kos27:37.3 (22nd)
  • Jiří Holubec27:37.8 (23rd)
  • Martin Rypl28:41.8 (50th)

Mens Individual Race

  • Jiří Holubec59:49.8 (15th)
  • Tomáš Kos1:00:26.6 (23rd)
  • Martin Rypl1:00:32.6 (25th)
  • Ivan Masařík1:05:24.9 (66th)

Mens Relay

  • Czechoslovakia1:27:15.8 (7th)
    • Martin Rypl
    • Tomáš Kos
    • Jiří Holubec
    • Ivan Masařík

Womens Sprint

  • Jiřina Adamičková24:58.1 (5th)
  • Gabriela Sůvová26:43.3 (18th)
  • Iveta Knížková28:14.4 (41st)
  • Helena Černohorská30:13.8 (62nd)

Womens Individual Race

  • Jiřina Adamičková56:21.8 (23rd)
  • Jana Kulhavá59:09.8 (44th)
  • Gabriela Sůvová1:02:22.4 (57th)
  • Petra Nosková1:02:57.6 (61st)

Womens Relay

  • Czechoslovakia1:23:12.7 (8th)
    • Gabriela Sůvová
    • Jana Kulhavá
    • Jiřina Adamičková

Bobsledding

After many years, Czechoslovakia entered its Olympic bobsleigh teams again, which recorded average to below-average results, but improved fast to be strong competitors at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Two-men Bob

  • Czechoslovakia I4:08.31 (25th)
    • Jiří Džmura
    • Roman Hrabáň
  • Czechoslovakia II4:10.84 (31st)
    • Petr Ramseidl
    • Zdeněk Kohout

Four-men Bob

  • Czechoslovakia3:58.55 (21st)
    • Jiří Džmura
    • Pavel Puškár
    • Karel Dostál
    • Roman Hrabáň

Cross country skiing

The mens 50-kilometer freestyle marathon was the highlight of Czechoslovakias men. Radim Nyč and Pavel Benc finished in top eight. Václav Korunka missed the top ten, but recorded three top-20 performances. In womens races Alžběta Havrančíková performed great in the second, freestyle-pursuit part of the combination race to move up from 34th to 17th place. Young Kateřina Neumannová took part in her first Olympics. The strong Czech and Slovak team-up of the womens relay fought for medals before losing pace in the last stage run by Iveta Zelingerová.

Mens 10 km Classic

Mens 15 km Free Pursuit

Mens 30 km Classic

  • Lubomír Buchta1:25:40.6 (13th)
  • Jiří Teplý1:26:14.4 (18th)
  • Martin Petrásek1:28:30.8 (24th)

Mens 50 km Free

Mens 4x10 km Relay

Womens 5 km Classic

Womens 10 km Free Pursuit

Womens 15 km Classic

  • Lubomíra Balážová45:22.6 (13th)
  • Kateřina Neumannová45:28.6 (14th)
  • Zora Simčáková45:45.6 (18th)
  • Anna Janoušková47:29.3 (33rd)

Womens 30 km Free

  • Alžběta Havrančíková1:27:54.9 (11th)
  • Iveta Zelingerová1:31:39.1 (22nd)
  • Anna Janoušková1:32:43.9 (27th)
  • Zora Simčáková1:33:10.3 (30th)

Womens 4x5 km Relay

Figure Skating

Reigning European Champion Petr Barna won his only Olympic medal behind Ukraine's Viktor Petrenko and United States' Paul Wylie. During his free program, Barna was the first skater to land the quadruple jump in the Olympic competition. The program was choreographed on the Hamlet soundtrack and was Barnas artistic masterpiece.

Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný teamed up after Novotnýs 1988 Winter Olympics medicine problem. They beat Shishkova and Naumov of the Unified Team in the competition, but lost to Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler of Canada in a close battle for the bronze medal, feeling a sort of injustice.

Kateřina Mrázová and Martin Šimeček finished 10th in the ice-dancing competition, while Lenka Kulovaná finished 11th. She was fifth in the 1992 European Championships, but lost to two European opponents only in Albertville.

Men

Women

Pairs

Ice Dancing

Ice Hockey

In 1991, Czechoslovakia failed to win a medal at the World Championships in Finland. Stanislav Neveselý and Josef Horešovský were sacked and the team was coached by Ivan Hlinka in Albertville. He named ten members of the 1991 World Championships for their Olympic squad. The team entered the group hammering Norway and coming back from 0-2 against France. Robert Lang's two goals helped beat Unified Team, which was the only one loss of the later Olympic champions. Czechoslovakia itself then recorded its first loss against Canada, but confirmed their quarterfinals participation with a win over Switzerland.

Sweden, the reigning World Champions, met Czechoslovakia in the quarterfinals, but was beaten as Kadlec, Janecký and Augusta scored their goals and Czechoslovakia headed to the semifinals against Canada again. The game was more balanced then the group one, but was lost 2-4. The team however had not problems finding motivation to beat United States for the bronze medal. Robert Lang was the top scoring player of the team (13 points).

Menbronze medal

Luge

Petr Urban was the leading and most controversial member of the Czechoslovakias luge team. He recorded two top-20 finishes, but was soon excluded from the team because of his cartoon jokes he published in daily Sport while competing in Albertville.

Mens Singles

  • Petr Urban3:06.269 (19th)
  • Jan Kohoutek3:06.442:37.3 (20th)

Mens Doubles

  • Petr Urban and Jan Kohoutek1:34.274 (15th)

Womens Singles

Nordic Combined

Individual Race

  • František Mákaat 3:34.7 behind winner in cross country (15th)
  • Josef Kovaříkat 4:13.7 behind (19th)
  • Martin Bayerat 10:43.1 (41st)
  • Milan Kučeradid not finish

Team Race

  • Czechoslovakiaat 9:04.7 behind winner in cross country (6th)

Ski Jumping

Jiří Parma was Czechoslovakias flag-bearer at the 1988 Winter Olympics, but recorded his best ever Olympic results in 1992. He led the team in a dramatic competition, where only Czechoslovakia managed to get closer to the uncontested duo of Austria and gold medal winning Finland. He added large hill fifth place and normal hill 10th place.

Normal Hill Competition

  • Jiří Parma207.9 points (10th)
  • Jaroslav Sakala200.8 (15th)
  • František Jež192.7 (23rd)
  • Tomáš Goder175.3 (48th)

Large Hill Competition

Team Competition

Speed Skating

Only two Czechoslovakia's speed skaters took part in the Games, but none of them was able to fight the competition for better than low-place finishes.

Mens 500 m

  • Jiří Kyncl40.92 s (39th)
  • Jiří Musil42.20 s (41st)

Mens 5000 m

  • Jiří Kyncl7:27.78 (27th)
  • Jiří Musil7:29.91 (29th)

Mens 10.000 m

  • Jiří Kyncl15:03.97 (25th)
  • Jiří Musil15:14.18 (28th)


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