Monday, August 9, 2021

2020 Olympic Results

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are now complete.  Of course, due to Covid, the games were postponed to 2021. 

I feel sorry for the athletes.  First, I feel sorry for the athletes who were ready to compete in 2020 and due to the delay missed their window of opportunity to compete.  

Secondly, I feel sorry for the athletes who did get to compete but without crowds.  I'm sure that over the years they dreamed of competing in front of full crowds with their families and loved ones in attendance.  Again, due to Covid, that did happen.  But you can't take anything away from the athletes to worked hard and competed for their respective countries.

The USA topped the medal count with 104 medals (46 gold, 29 silver, 29 bronze), followed by China with 88 medals and the UK with 65 medals.

Czech Republic came in 19th place, behind Jamaica and ahead of North Korea, with 11 medals.  In terms of medals these were the country's most successful summer Olympic results.  

Gold

Jiří Lipták

Shooting

Men's trap

Gold

Jiří Prskavec

Canoeing

Men's slalom K-1

Gold

Lukáš Krpálek

Judo

Men's +100 kg

Gold

Barbora Krejčíková

Kateřina Siniaková

Tennis

Women's doubles

Silver

Lukáš Rohan

Canoeing

Men's slalom C-1

Silver

David Kostelecký 

Shooting

Men's trap

Silver

Markéta Vondroušová

Tennis

Women's Singles

Silver

Jakub Vadlejch

Athletics

Men's javelin throw

Bronze

Alexander Choupenitch

Fencing

Men's foil

Bronze

Josef Dostál

Radek Šlouf

Canoeing

Men's K-2 1000 metres

Bronze

Vítězslav Veselý

Athletics

Men's javelin throw

Here's a short YouTube video I found of the Czech gold medal winners along with the Czech national anthem.

©Olympics

There's a Brno connection as well.  Jiří Lipton, Barbora Krejčíková, David Kostelecký, and Alexander Choupenitich were all born in Brno.

Team Czech sent 115 athletes to compete in 22 sports.

One of the Czech athletes to compete was David Jessen, also born in Brno.  He is the son of 1988 Olympic gymnast Hana Říčná.  As a child he moved to the USA and competed as a junior gymnast before representing Czech Republic.  He competed for Stanford University and represented the Czech Republic at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.  In Tokyo he placed 57th in the all-around event.  In Czechland his club is Brno Sokol.

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