Czech Republic at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Czech Republic at the
2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Czech Republic at the; 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
	Flag of Czech Republic
IOC code	CZE
NOC	Czech Olympic Committee
in Gangwon, South Korea; 19 January 2024 – 1 February 2024
Competitors	62 in 12 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Lukáš Kulhánek & Ilona Plecháčová
Flag bearer (closing)	TBD
Medals; Ranked 19th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 4
Winter Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
	2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

The Czech Republic is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024. This will be the Czech Republic's fourth appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having competed at every Games since the inaugural edition in 2012.

Biathletes Lukáš Kulhánek and Ilona Plecháčová were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.^[1]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	1	2	3
Biathlon	4	4	8
Cross-country skiing	2	2	4
Curling	1	1	2
Figure skating	2	2	4
Freestyle skiing	4	3	7
Ice hockey	18	0	18
Luge	3	0	3
Nordic combined	2	2	4
Short track speed skating	0	1	1
Ski jumping	2	2	4
Snowboarding	2	3	5
Total	41	21	62

One female athlete will compete in ski jumping and nordic combined.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Ilona Plecháčová	Biathlon	Women's individual	20 January
Silver	Czech Republic men's national under-16 ice hockey team	Ice hockey	Men's tournament	31 January
Bronze	Heda Mikolášová Ilona Plecháčová Jakub Neuhauser Lukáš Kulhánek	Biathlon	Mixed relay	24 January
Bronze	Vanessa Volopichová	Snowboarding	Women's slopestyle	24 January

Alpine skiing

The Czech Republic qualified three alpine skiers (one man and two women).^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stanislav Kovář	Super-G	—				DNS
	Giant slalom	52.29	35	DNF		DNF
	Slalom	50.24	32	DNF		DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elena Drápalová	Super-G	—				56.66	30
	Giant slalom	DNF		DNQ		DNF
	Slalom	DNF		DNQ		DNF
	Combined	59.20	31	57.30	25	1:56.50	24
Katrin Kudĕlásková	Super-G	—				55.96	19
	Giant slalom	DNF		DNQ		DNF
	Slalom	54.34	29	49.79	17	1:44.13	21
	Combined	57.32	10	54.87	22	1:52.19	20

Biathlon

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Jan Dufek	Sprint	24:27.2	3 (1+2)	44
Jan Dufek	Individual	48:43.9	7 (3+2+2+0)	49
František Jelínek	Individual	48:01.4	6 (0+2+2+2)	37
Lukáš Kulhánek	Sprint	23:17.0	2 (1+1)	18
Lukáš Kulhánek	Individual	49:03.2	9 (0+5+0+4)	53
Jakub Neuhauser	Sprint	25:11.5	5 (3+2)	61
Jakub Neuhauser	Individual	48:30.4	7 (1+2+3+2)	45

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Lucie Jandurová	Sprint	23:07.9	5 (0+5)	33
Lucie Jandurová	Individual	40:37.9	3 (1+0+0+2)	13
Valerie Křížová	Sprint	22:08.5	5 (1+4)	22
Valerie Křížová	Individual	40:50.6	5 (1+0+2+2)	16
Heda Mikolášová	Sprint	21:05.7	5 (2+3)	4
Heda Mikolášová	Individual	38:23.8	4 (1+2+1+0)	4
Ilona Plecháčová	Sprint	21:07.5	4 (2+2)	5
Ilona Plecháčová	Individual	37:03.4	1 (0+1+0+0)

Mixed

Athletes	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Valerie Křížová, Jakub Neuhauser	Single mixed relay	47:13.8	1+16	8
Heda Mikolášová, Ilona Plecháčová, Jakub Neuhauser, Lukáš Kulhánek	Mixed relay	1:18:23.4	5+16

Cross-country skiing

Czech Republic qualified four cross-country skiers (two per gender).^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aleš Řezáč	7.5 km classical	—	20:45.6	16
Aleš Řezáč	Sprint freestyle	3:09.86	21	4:13.12	6	Did not advance			28
Eduard Simbartl	7.5 km classical	—	20:21.7	8
Eduard Simbartl	Sprint freestyle	3:11.84	25	3:12.76	4	Did not advance			19

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kateřina Dušková	7.5 km classical	—	23:06.6	11
Kateřina Dušková	Sprint freestyle	3:38.39	11	3:39.77	2	3:38.77	2	3:43.52	5
Eliška Polonská	7.5 km classical	—	23:42.7	21
Eliška Polonská	Sprint freestyle	3:38.92	13	3:37.70	4	Did not advance			16

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kateřina Dušková Aleš Řezáč Eliška Polonská Eduard Simbartl	Mixed relay	55:41.4	10

Curling

The Czech Republic qualified a mixed doubles pair for a total of two athletes (one per gender).^[4]^[5]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Julie Zelingrová Ondřej Bláha	Mixed doubles	Hungary W 7–2	Nigeria W 19–0	Great Britain L 3–8	Canada W 6–4	South Korea W 7–5	2 Q	United States L 7–8	Did not advance		8

Mixed doubles

Group A	W	L	W–L	DSC
Great Britain	4	1	1–0	40.06
Czech Republic	4	1	0–1	42.84
Canada	3	2	–	54.69
Hungary	2	3	1–0	89.06
South Korea	2	3	0–1	38.09
Nigeria	0	5	–	168.42

Round robin

Draw 2

Saturday, January 27, 10:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	7
Hungary (Nagy / Kárász)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2

Draw 7

Sunday, January 28, 18:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	1	3	5	2	4	4	X	X	19
Nigeria (Akinsanya / Daniel)	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0

Draw 9

Monday, January 29, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Soutar / Brewster)	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	4	8
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3

Draw 11

Tuesday, January 30, 10:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Locke / Perry)	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	4
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	6

Draw 14

Wednesday, January 31, 9:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	7
South Korea (Lee / Lee)	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	5

Quarterfinal

Wednesday, January 31, 19:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Wendling / Paral)	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	8
Czech Republic (Zelingrová / Bláha)	0	1	1	1	0	0	4	0	7

Figure skating

Athletes	Event	RD		FD		Total
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andrea Pšurná Jáchym Novák	Ice dance	51.22	5	75.41	7	126.63	6
Klára Vlčková Tomáš Vlček	Ice dance	33.09	12	49.24	12	82.33	12

Freestyle skiing

Dual moguls

Athlete	Event	Group Heats		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vít Zvalený	Men's dual moguls	9	4			Did not advance		13
Zuzana Tlapáková	Women's dual moguls	9	4			Did not advance		14
Vít Zvalený Zuzana Tlapáková	Mixed team dual moguls	—		South Korea L 10 – 60	Did not advance			14

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Pre-heat	Group heats		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Position	Points	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Final rank
Tomáš Matoušek	Men's ski cross	—	14	8	—	Did not advance		N/A
Jan Třešňák	Men's ski cross	—	11	10	—	Did not advance		N/A
Nela Apolínová	Women's ski cross	—	16	4	—	4	4 (in small final)	8
Aneta Koryntová	Women's ski cross	—	11	10	—	Did not advance		N/A
Tomáš Matoušek, Nela Apolínová	Team ski cross	1	—		3	Did not advance		12
Jan Třešňák, Aneta Koryntová	Team ski cross	3	—		Did not advance			N/A

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Petr Müller	Men's big air	92.50	~~71.00~~	92.50	1	19.75	~~42.50~~	65.25	85.00	10
Petr Müller	Men's slopestyle	86.75	~~80.00~~	86.75	4	~~65.50~~	67.75	~~59.75~~	67.75	5

Ice hockey

Summary

Key:

OT – Overtime
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Event	Group stage			Semifinal	Final
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Czech Republic men's	Men's tournament	Slovakia W 3–2	United States W 6–5 GWS	1	Finland W 3–1	United States L 0–4

Men's tournament

Team roster

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	2	1	1	0	0	9	7	+2	5	Semifinals
2	United States	2	0	1	1	0	10	10	0	3	Semifinals
3	Slovakia	2	0	0	1	1	6	8	−2	1

Source: Gangwon 2024

28 January 2024
14:00

Czech Republic

3–2
(0–0, 0–0, 3–2)

Slovakia

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 3,830

Game reference

Jan Láryš

Goalies

Dávid Dvořák

Referees:

Mathieu Boudreau

Oskar Øvstedal
Linesmen:

Mitchell Gibbs

David Prokofyev

	0–1	33:09 – Kubat (Plančár)
Katolický (Kachlíř, Novák) (PP) – 36:08	1–1
Katolický (Novák) – 37:06	2–1
Tomek (ENG) – 44:17	3–1
	3–2	44:34 – Kovalčík (Macák)

4.5 min

Penalties

4.5 min

36

Shots

24

29 January 2024
14:00

United States

5–6 GWS
(3–1, 2–2, 0–2)
(SO: 0–1)

Czech Republic

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 3,203

Game reference

Gavin Weeks

Goalies

Jan Láryš

Referees:

Mathieu Boudreau

Adler Steenstra
Linesmen:

Mitchell Gibbs

David Prokofyev

Barnett (Francisco, Marthaler) – 05:48	1–0
	1–1	08:39 – Katolický (Kachlíř, Tomek) (PP)
Berchild (Trottier) – 09:30	2–1
Stuart (Barnett) – 14:59	3–1
Schairer (Hurlbert, Berchild) – 20:45	4–1
	4–2	22:29 – Katolický (Tomek)
	4–3	25:57 – Ruml (Nedorost, Hanyš) (PP)
Hurlbert – 27:18	5–3
	5–4	37:26 – Novák (SH)
	5–5	42:49 – Novák (Tomek)

Hurlbert

Berchild

Francisco

Stuart

Bumgarner

Torre

Shootout

Katolický

Huk

Novák

Tomek

Kachlíř

Nedorost

7.5 min

Penalties

4.5 min

35

Shots

19

Semifinal

30 January 2024
14:00

Czech Republic

3–1
(0–0, 3–0, 0–1)

Finland

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 3,448

Game reference

Jan Láryš
Martin Psohlavec

Goalies

Pyry Lammi

Referees:

Mathieu Boudreau

Adler Steenstra
Linesmen:

Lim Jun-seo

David Prokofyev

Nedorost (Ruml, Bělohorský) (PP2) – 17:14	1–0
Bělohorský (Reisnecker) – 19:06	2–0
Novák (Vaněček, Katolický) – 29:11	3–0
	3–1	34:32 – Kähkönen (Arkko, Torkki)

4.5 min

Penalties

7.5 min

33

Shots

25

Final

31 January 2024
20:00

Czech Republic

0–4
(0–1, 0–1, 0–2)

United States

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 4,646

Game reference

Jan Láryš

Goalies

Xavier Wendt

Referees:

Rasmus Ankersen

Mathieu Boudreau
Linesmen:

Mitchell Gibbs

David Thuma

	0–1	08:39 – Berchild (Francisco, Torre) (PP)
	0–2	21:04 – Hurlbert (Stuart)
	0–3	40:09 – Berchild (Trottier, Hurlbert)
	0–4	43:25 – Torre (Berchild, Hurlbert) (PP)

4.5 min

Penalties

1.5 min

29

Shots

23

Luge

Czech Republic qualified three male lugers.^[6]^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Filip Pavlata	Singles	48.133	16	48.442	18	1:36.575	17
David Svárovský Štefan Janák	Doubles	50.167	9	50.395	10	1:40.562	9

Nordic combined

Individual

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping				Cross-country
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Lukáš Doležal	Men's normal hill/6 km	102.0	124.7	8	+1:05	14:23.8	6
Jan Kabeláč	Men's normal hill/6 km	78.5	67.0	27	+4:56	18:24.6	26
Karolína Horká	Women's normal hill/4 km	50.0	4.1	21	+8:37	18:30.1	20
Natálie Nejedlová	Women's normal hill/4 km	73.0	57.5	20	+5:03	19:36.9	21

Team

Athlete	Event	Ski jumping			Cross-country
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Deficit	Time	Rank
Lukáš Doležal Karolína Horká Natálie Nejedlová Jan Kabeláč	Mixed team	242.9	10	+3:26	39:34.7	10

Short track speed skating

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eva Bláhová	500 m	47.996	3	Did not advance					25
	1000 m	1:40.187	3	Did not advance					25
	1500 m	—		2:45.156	4	Did not advance			24

Ski jumping

Czech Republic qualified four ski jumpers (two per gender).^[8]

Individual

Athlete	Event	First round			Final			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Josef Buchar	Men's normal hill	89.0	81.4	19	91.0	79.5	18	160.9	16
Daniel Škarka	Men's normal hill	90.0	85.5	15	96.0	92.8	11	178.3	13
Anežka Indráčková	Women's normal hill	97.0	95.4	4	102.0	101.9	4	197.3	4
Natálie Nejedlová	Women's normal hill	60.5	17.3	29	66.5	29.9	26	47.2	28

Team

Athlete	Event	First round				Final				Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Team points	Rank	Distance	Points	Team points	Rank	Points	Rank
Natálie Nejedlová, Josef Buchar, Anežka Indráčková, Daniel Škarka	Mixed team	66.0 96.0 98.0 90.0	28.1 97.9 96.0 88.5	310.5	8	60.0 93.0 96.5 95.0	23.8 93.9 103.3 98.3	319.3	8	629.8	8

Snowboarding

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Position	Position	Position	Position
Max Benáčan	Men's snowboard cross	9	12	—	Did not advance
Štěpán Hlaváček	Men's snowboard cross	12	10	—	Did not advance
Karolína Hrušová	Women's snowboard cross	17	4	—	Did not advance
Karolína Šperlová	Women's snowboard cross	5	11	—	4	6 (2nd in small final)
Štěpán Hlaváček Karolína Hrušová	Team snowboard cross	—		2	DNF	6 (2nd in small final)

Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Total	Rank
Vanessa Volopichová	Women's big air	72.00	~~71.75~~	72.00	10	~~69.25~~	78.50	72.00	150.50	5
Vanessa Volopichová	Women's slopestyle	~~32.00~~	61.75	61.75	7	~~64.25~~	87.00	~~35.75~~	87.00

References

^ "Gangwon 2024 Opening Ceremony Flagbearers Information" (PDF). www.olympics.com/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
^ "Alpine Skiing quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
^ "Cross-Country quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
^ "Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games Teams Confirmed". www.worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation (WCF). 12 April 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
^ Shefferd, Neil (14 April 2023). "Teams for Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympics curling competitions confirmed". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
^ "Overall Ranking YOUTH A Men´s Singles World Cup referring D.1" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation (FIL). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
^ "Overall Ranking YOUTH A Men´s Doubles World Cup referring D.2" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation (FIL). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
^ "Ski Jumping quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.

[1] "Gangwon 2024 Opening Ceremony Flagbearers Information" (PDF). www.olympics.com/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.

[2] "Alpine Skiing quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

[3] "Cross-Country quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

[4] "Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games Teams Confirmed". www.worldcurling.org. World Curling Federation (WCF). 12 April 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

[5] Shefferd, Neil (14 April 2023). "Teams for Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympics curling competitions confirmed". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 23 December 2023.

[6] "Overall Ranking YOUTH A Men´s Singles World Cup referring D.1" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation (FIL). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.

[7] "Overall Ranking YOUTH A Men´s Doubles World Cup referring D.2" (PDF). www.fil-luge.org/. International Luge Federation (FIL). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.

[8] "Ski Jumping quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.

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v t e Nations at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea
Africa	Algeria Kenya Nigeria South Africa Tunisia
Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Jamaica Mexico Puerto Rico United States
Asia	China Hong Kong India Iran Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Mongolia Nepal Philippines Qatar Singapore South Korea Chinese Taipei Thailand United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Competitors

Medalists

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

Cross-country skiing

Curling

Mixed doubles

Figure skating

Freestyle skiing

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

Luge

Nordic combined

Short track speed skating

Ski jumping

Snowboarding

See also

References