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.