Jaroslav Kulhavý

Jaroslav Kulhavý

Kulhavý at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Jaroslav Kulhavý
Born	(1985-01-08) 8 January 1985 Ústí nad Orlicí
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current team	Specialized Racing
Discipline	Mountain bike racing
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Major wins
Mountain bike Olympic Games XC (2012) World XC Championships (2011) World Marathon Championships (2014) XC World Cup (2011) 9 individual wins (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015) Cape Epic (2013, 2015, 2018)
Medal record Representing the Czech Republic Men's mountain bike racing Olympic Games 2012 London Cross-country 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cross-country World Championships 2011 Champery Cross-country 2010 Mont Sainte-Anne Cross-country 2016 Nove Mesto Cross-country 2017 Cairns Cross-country World Cup 2011 Overall Cross-country 2010 Overall Cross-country 2012 Overall Cross-country Men's Mountain bike marathon World Championships 2014 Pietermaritzburg Men's race 2011 Montello Men's race

Jaroslav Kulhavý (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈkulɦaviː]; born 8 January 1985 in Ústí nad Orlicí), is a Czech mountain biker

Career

For the first time, he became more aware of himself in 2003, when he became junior champion of the world and Europe. As a result, he also looked at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but the Olympic race did not finish due to the defect. In 2008 he entered the Elite category and gradually began to overcome the best results of the Czech bikers. At the World Championships in St. Petersburg, Wendel finished eleventh, improving three places to the best Czech result of Miloslav Kvasnička in 1991.In 2009, he finished the 11th European Championship, at the World Cup in Canberra, Australia, the ninth. The medal position in the World Cup race has not been successful yet. In 2010, the first major medal successes came. In July, he won the title of European Champion in Israeli Haifa.At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he defended the gold in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Swiss cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal.

He won the gold medal in the cross-country event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the silver medal four years later at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the overall winner of the UCI World Cup in 2011, along with taking 3rd place in 2010 and 2012. In 2013 and 2015 Kulhavy partnered with Christoph Sauser to win the Absa Cape Epic mountain bike stage race ("Tour de France of mountain biking") Kulhavy raced the Absa Cape Epic with Sauser again in March, 2017, but their bid for a third win together was foiled by Nino Schurter and Matthias Stirnemann (Scott-Sram), who eventually prevailed by eight minutes. In June 2014 he took the world title in mountain bike marathon. At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he came in second in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Switzerland cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal.

Major results

2003

1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships

1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships

2007

2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships

3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup

2008

1st Cross-country, National Championships

2010

1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships

1st Marathon, National Championships

2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships

3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Windham

2nd Champéry

3rd Offenburg

2011

1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships

1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships

1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Dalby Forest

1st Mont-Sainte-Anne

1st Windham

1st Nové Město

1st Val di Sole

2nd Offenburg

3rd Pietermaritzburg

2nd Marathon, UCI World Championships

2012

1st Cross-country, Olympic Games

3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

2nd Nové Město

2nd La Bresse

3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne

2013

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser)

UCI XCO World Cup

1st Hafjell

3rd Albstadt

3rd Val di Sole

2014

1st Marathon, UCI World Championships

2nd Marathon, UEC European Championships

2015

1st Marathon, UEC European Championships

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser)

2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup

1st Nové Město

1st Lenzerheide

3rd Albstadt

2016

2nd Cross-country, Olympic Games

2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships

2017

UCI XCO World Cup

2nd Lenzerheide

2018

1st Overall Cape Epic (with Howard Grotts)

2019

1st Overall Outcast Rider, Cape Epic

2022

1st Marathon, National Championships

3rd Marathon, UEC European Championships

World Cup of Mountain Bikes XCO

2013	Germany	Czech	Italy	Andorra	Canada	Norway
	3	26	3	34	16	1
2014	South African Republic	Australia	Czech	Germany	Canada	USA	France
	10	DNF	87	6	36	DNF	30
2015	Czech	Germany	Switzerland	Canada	USA	Italy
	1	3	1	13	32	4

References

1. cs:Jaroslav_Kulhavý
2. http://jaroslavkulhavy.cz/
3. http://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/ostatni-cyklistika/286856/kral-cyklistiky-kulhavy-doufam-ze-pristi-rok-stihnu-vedle-zavodu-i-svatbu.
4. http://www.ahaonline.cz/clanek/sport/82168/jaroslav-kulhavy-ztratil-kamarada-cyklistu-standera-25-zabilo-auto-citim-se-hrozne.html