The Army Athlete of the Year is the shooter Kostelecký, the silver Olympian also surpassed the successful spearmen iROZHLAS
The silver Olympic medalist from Tokyo, the sports shooter David Kostelecký, became the best army athlete in 2021. He sat on the throne in a poll for Dukla’s representatives for the first time on Tuesday at a ceremony in Prague.
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Kostelecký gained 856 points and defeated the javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch by 29 points in the “duel” of silver games in Tokyo. The bronze javelin thrower from the Summer Olympics, Vítězslav Veselý, finished third. Canoeist Josef Dostál was fourth and his bronze deblake partner Radek Šlouf seventh.
Czech sports shooters won the Presidential Cup. Kostelecký repaid Lipták’s defeat from Tokyo
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“I have to make sure if I won the main category or the veteran category,” Kostelecký, 46, joked on the stage. “I think my era is over, but I can still hit something, so we’ll see how it goes in the future. I will try to prove something again, “he added.
Kostelecký lost in the Czech battle for gold to Jiří Lipták at the Olympics. He repaid his national team colleague last weekend at the Presidential Cup in Larnaca. In Cyprus, he also won mixed pairs with the American Madelynn Bernau.
Long waiting
Kostelecký won the army poll for the first time. In 2008, when he became the Olympic winner in Beijing, he was surpassed in the vote by the javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková.
Jan Železný, the javelin coach, became the best coach. After his last Czech achievement, the junior of the year is the acrobatic skier Matěj Švancer, who has been representing Austria, where he has lived since he was a child, since the beginning of winter.
Athletes saying goodbye to their active careers – the most successful Czech rower in history Ondřej Synek and members of the bronze four-seater from the London 2012 Olympics Lukáš Trefil and Jan Štěrba – earned applause.
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