Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics
IOC code	TCH
NOC	Czechoslovak Olympic Committee
in Seoul
Competitors	163 (110 men and 53 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Imrich Bugár
Medals Ranked 17th	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 2 Total 8
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992
Other related appearances
Bohemia (1900–1912)  Czech Republic (1994–)  Slovakia (1994–)

Czechoslovakia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, after having boycotted the previous Games in 1984. 163 competitors, 110 men and 53 women, took part in 97 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Miroslav Varga	Shooting	Men's 50 m rifle prone	19 September
Gold	Jozef Pribilinec	Athletics	Men's 20 km walk	23 September
Gold	Miloslav Mečíř	Tennis	Men's singles	30 September
Silver	Miloslav Bednařík	Shooting	Trap	20 September
Silver	Jan Železný	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	25 September
Silver	Jana Novotná Helena Suková	Tennis	Women's doubles	30 September
Bronze	Miloslav Mečíř Milan Šrejber	Tennis	Men's doubles	29 September
Bronze	Jozef Lohyňa	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg	1 October

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

Men's 10.000 metres

• Martin Vrabel
  • Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Karel David
  • Final — 2"26.12 (→ 55th place)

Men's Discus Throw

• Géjza Valent
  • Qualifying Heat – 63.46m
  • Final – 65.80m (→ 6th place)
• Imrich Bugár
  • Qualifying Heat – 61.94m
  • Final – 60.88m (→ 12th place)

Men's Javelin Throw

• Jan Železný
  • Qualification — 85.90m
  • Final — 84.12m (→ Silver Medal)
• Zdenek Nenadal
  • Qualification — 75.56m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Remigius Machura
  • Qualifying Heat – 20.16m
  • Final – 20.57m (→ 5th place)

Men's Decathlon

• Roman Hraban — 7781 points (→ 20th place)

1. 100 metres — 10.98s
2. Long Jump — 7.07m
3. Shot Put — 15.84m
4. High Jump — 1.79m
5. 400 metres — 49.68s
6. 110m Hurdles — 14.94s
7. Discus Throw — 45.32m
8. Pole Vault — 4.90m
9. Javelin Throw — 60.48m
10. 1.500 metres — 5:06.68s

• Veroslav Valenta — 7442 points (→ 28th place)

1. 100 metres — 11.51s
2. Long Jump — 7.01m
3. Shot Put — 14.17m
4. High Jump — 1.94m
5. 400 metres — 51.216s
6. 110m Hurdles — 15.18s
7. Discus Throw — 45.84m
8. Pole Vault — 4.60m
9. Javelin Throw — 56.28m
10. 1.500 metres — 5:03.17s

Men's 20 km Walk

• Jozef Pribilinec
  • Final — 1:19:57 (→ Gold Medal)
• Roman Mrázek
  • Final — 1:20:43 (→ 5th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

• Pavol Szikora
  • Final — 3:47:04 (→ 10th place)
• Pavol Blazek
  • Final — 3:47:31 (→ 12th place)
• Roman Mrazek
  • Final — 3:50:46 (→ 17th place)

Women's Marathon

• Ludmila Melicherová
  • Final — 2"43.56 (→ 45th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Zdeňka Šilhavá
  • Qualifying Heat – 66.52m
  • Final – 67.84m (→ 6th place)

Women's Shot Put

• Zdeňka Šilhavá
  • Qualification – 19.74m
  • Final – 18.86m (→ 11th place)
• Sona Vasickova
  • Qualification — did not start (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Zuzana Lajbnerová
  • Final Result — 6252 points (→ 9th place)

Team roster

The following is the Czechoslovakia roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Czechoslovakia women's national basketball team – 1988 Summer Olympics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. 4 Svatava Kysilková 23 – (1964-12-29)29 December 1964 Sparta ČKD Praha 5 Alena Kašová 28 – (1960-03-06)6 March 1960 Slovan CHZJD Bratislava 6 Eva Kalužáková 23 – (1965-05-03)3 May 1965 Sparta ČKD Praha 7 Ivana Nováková 23 – (1965-07-16)16 July 1965 Slavia VŠ Praha 8 Zuzana Hájková 25 – (1963-01-15)15 January 1963 Slavia VŠ Praha 9 Anna Janoštinová 20 – (1968-04-06)6 April 1968 Slavia PF Banská Bystrica 10 Zora Brziaková 24 – (1964-03-14)14 March 1964 Sparta ČKD Praha 11 Hana Zarevúcká 27 – (1961-03-03)3 March 1961 Slavia VŠ Praha 12 Erika Dobrovičová-Buriánová 21 – (1967-09-10)10 September 1967 Slavia PF Banská Bystrica 13 Eva Křížová 21 – (1966-10-20)20 October 1966 Slavia VŠ Praha 14 Irma Valová 23 – (1965-07-26)26 July 1965 Sparta ČKD Praha 15 Eva Berková 22 – (1965-10-23)23 October 1965 Racing Club de France	Legend Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 17 September 1988

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	282	234	+48	6	Semifinals
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	1	199	211	−12	5
3	China	3	1	2	200	214	−14	4	Classification round
4	Czechoslovakia	3	0	3	202	224	−22	3

19 September 1988 (1988-09-19) 9:45

Boxscore

Czechoslovakia	81–87	United States
Scoring by half: 39–37, 42–50
Pts: Nováková 21 Rebs: Nováková 8 Asts: Kalužáková, Nováková 2		Pts: Edwards 24 Rebs: McClain 8 Asts: Edwards 2

Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul

22 September 1988 (1988-09-22) 21:30

Boxscore

China	68–64	Czechoslovakia
Scoring by half: 36–36, 32–28
Pts: Zheng 12 Rebs: Han 7 Asts: Xue 3		Pts: Dobrovičová 21 Rebs: Dobrovičová 5 Asts: Kalužáková 4

Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul

25 September 1988 9:45

Boxscore

Czechoslovakia	57–69	Yugoslavia
Scoring by half: 15–41, 42–28
Pts: Dobrovičová 17 Rebs: Dobrovičová 9 Asts: Kalužáková 3		Pts: Nakić 24 Rebs: Dornik 8 Asts: Vangelovska 7

Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul

Classification 5–8

27 September 1988 19:30

Boxscore

Bulgaria	81–78	Czechoslovakia
Scoring by half: 49–42, 32–36
Pts: Radkova 25 Rebs: Radkova 6 Asts: Khadzhiyankova, Slavcheva 3		Pts: Janoštinová 27 Rebs: Dobrovičová 9 Asts: Kysilková, Nováková 3

Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul

Classification 7/8

28 September 1988 19:30

Boxscore

South Korea	77–59	Czechoslovakia
Scoring by half: 41–26, 36–33
Pts: Choi 18 Rebs: Sung 6 Asts: Kim HS 3		Pts: Janoštinová 14 Rebs: Janoštinová 10 Asts: Janoštinová, Nováková 3

Jamsil Gymnasium, Seoul

Thirteen cyclists, all men, represented Czechoslovakia in 1988.

Men's road race

• Jozef Regec
• Luděk Štyks
• Luboš Lom

Men's team time trial

• Vladimír Hrůza
• Vladimír Kinšt
• Milan Křen
• Jozef Regec

Men's sprint

• Vratislav Šustr

Men's individual pursuit

• Roman Čermák

Men's team pursuit

• Svatopluk Buchta
• Zbyněk Fiala
• Pavel Soukup
• Aleš Trčka
• Pavel Tesař

Men's points race

• Luboš Lom

Three male pentathletes represented Czechoslovakia in 1988.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Milan Kadlec — 5130pts (→ 11th place)
• Tomáš Fleissner — 5010pts (→ 19th place)
• Jiří Prokopius — 4903pts (→ 29th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Kadlec, Fleissner, and Prokopius — 15043pts (→ 6th place)

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Petr Kladiva
  1. Heat – 23.53 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Petr Kladiva
  1. Heat – 51.39 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Pavel Vokoun
  1. Heat – 58.88 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Pavel Vokoun
  1. Heat – 2:07.24 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Radek Beinhauer
  1. Heat – 1:04.61 (→ did not advance, 25th place)
• Alexander Marcek
  1. Heat – 1:04.95 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Radek Beinhauer
  1. Heat – 2:18.02
  2. B-Final – 2:18.13 (→ 12th place)
• Alexander Marcek
  1. Heat – 2:18.44
  2. B-Final – 2:18.51 (→ 15th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• Robert Wolf
  1. Heat – 55.73 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Ondrej Bures
  1. Heat – 2:02.93 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Ondrej Bures
  1. Heat – 4:29.62 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Pavel Vokoun, Radek Beinhauer, Robert Wolf, and Petr Kladiva
  1. Heat – 3:49.90 (→ did not advance, 13th place)

Women's Singles Competition

• Regina Rajchrtová
  1. First Round – Lost to Leila Meskhi (Soviet Union) 5-7 5-7
• Jana Novotná
  1. First Round – Defeated Isabelle Demongeot (France) 6-4 6-3
  2. Second Round – Lost to Barbara Paulus (Austria) 4-6 3-6
• Helena Suková
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Lost to Il-Soon Kim (South Korea) 2-6 6-4 2-6

Men's Doubles Competition

• Miloslav Mečíř and Milan Šrejber → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round – Defeated Liu Shuhua and Ma Keqin (China) 7-5 6-1 6-4
  2. Second Round – Defeated Vijay Amritraj and Anand Amritraj (India) 4-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-2
  3. Quarterfinals – Defeated Guy Forget and Henri Leconte (France) 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 9-7
  4. Semifinals – Lost to Ken Flach and Robert Seguso (United States) 2-6 4-6 1-6