Jaroslav Kulhavý

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Jaroslav Kulhavý
Kulhavý at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameJaroslav Kulhavý
Born (1985-01-08) 8 January 1985
Ústí nad Orlicí
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Team information
Current teamSpecialized Racing
DisciplineMountain bike racing
RoleRider
Rider typeCross-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
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cross-country
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Champery Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2010 Mont Sainte-Anne Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2016 Nove Mesto Cross-country
Silver medal – second place 2017 Cairns Cross-country
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2011 Overall Cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Overall Cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Overall Cross-country
Men's Mountain bike marathon
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Pietermaritzburg Men's race
Silver medal – second place 2011 Montello Men's race

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

Career

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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
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