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Jaroslav Kulhavý (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈkulɦaviː]; born 8 January 1985 in Ústí nad Orlicí), is a Czech mountain biker
 Kulhavý at the 2008 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jaroslav Kulhavý | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 January 1985 Ústí nad Orlicí | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Specialized Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career edit
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 edit
- 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
- 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 edit
| 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 edit
- cs:Jaroslav_Kulhavý[circular reference]
- http://jaroslavkulhavy.cz/
- http://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/ostatni-cyklistika/286856/kral-cyklistiky-kulhavy-doufam-ze-pristi-rok-stihnu-vedle-zavodu-i-svatbu.
- http://www.ahaonline.cz/clanek/sport/82168/jaroslav-kulhavy-ztratil-kamarada-cyklistu-standera-25-zabilo-auto-citim-se-hrozne.html