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| Country/Region |  Czech Republic |
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| Code | CZE |
| Created | 1899 |
| Recognized | 1993 |
| Continental Association | EOC |
| Headquarters | Prague, Czech Republic |
| President | Jiří Kejval |
| Secretary General | Petr Graclík |
| Website | www.olympic.cz |
The Czech Olympic Committee (Czech : Český olympijský výbor) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) representing the Czech Republic.
The Czech Olympic Committee is one of the oldest NOCs in the world, having been founded in 1899 as Bohemian Committee for the Olympic Games (Czech : Český výbor pro hry olympijské). It was transformed into the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee in 1919 and reconstituted under its original name in 1992, being formally recognized by the IOC again in 1993.
The Czech Olympic Committee has had the following presidents:
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| Jiří Stanislav Guth-Jarkovský | 1899–1929 |
| Josef Gruss | 1929–1951 |
| Vilém Mucha | 1951–1956 |
| Václav Pleskot | 1956–1958 |
| František Vodsloň | 1958–1967 |
| Emanuel Bosák | 1967–1970 |
| Richard Nejezchleb | 1970–1972 |
| Antonín Himl | 1972–1988 |
| Jindřich Poledník | 1988–1989 |
| Věra Čáslavská | 1990–1996 |
| Milan Jirásek | 1996–2012 |
| Jiří Kejval | 2012–present |
The Czech National Federations are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports. They are responsible for training, competition and development of their sports. There are currently 34 Olympic Summer and 8 Winter Sport Federations in Czech Republic.
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The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from 19 July to 4 August 1996. A total of 10,318 athletes from 197 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), competed in 271 events in 26 sports.
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.
The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus was one of many national Olympic committees that make up the International Olympic Committee. On February 26, 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its treatment of Belarusian athletes, the International Olympic Committee suspended the NOC RB. Created in 1991, the NOC RB, was charged with selecting athletes to represent Belarus in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, enforcing anti-doping laws and promoting sporting activity inside Belarus. The current president of the NOC RB is Victor Lukashenko, the son of the current President of Belarus.
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The German Olympic Sports Confederation was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC.
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Jaroslava Bajerová was a Czaechoslovak artistic gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics where she won the silver medal as member of the Czechoslovak gymnastics team. She was also a member of the Czechoslovak team that won the gold medal at the 1934 World Championships.
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Sportsperson of the Year was a prize awarded annually to the best athletes of Czechoslovakia from 1959 to 1992 by the Club of Czechoslovak Sports Journalists. The first winner was white-water canoer Vladimír Jirásek. From 1961 the prize was also given to the best sports team; the first team recipient was the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the prize has continued in both successor countries as the Sportsperson of the Year of the Czech Republic and the Sportsperson of the Year of Slovakia.
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Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee is the National Olympic Committee representing Slovakia in the International Olympic Committee. It is based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Athletes have competed as independent Olympians at the Olympic Games for various reasons, including political transition, international sanctions, suspensions of National Olympic Committees, and compassion. Independent athletes have come from North Macedonia, East Timor, South Sudan and Curaçao following geopolitical changes in the years before the Olympics, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a result of international sanctions, from India and Kuwait due to the suspensions of their National Olympic Committees, and from Russia for mass violations of anti-doping rules.
Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured around 393 judoka competing in 15 events, seven each for both men and women as well as a new mixed team event. The 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the judo competitions were held in July 2021 at Nippon Budokan.
Jiří Kejval is a Czech sports official, businessman and since 2012 President of the Czech Olympic Committee. During his active sports career he competed at international level and for eighteen years was President of the Czech Rowing Association.
Anna Kulíšková, married Pešková is a Czech para-alpine skier, who competes in the visual impairment disability class. She won a silver and a bronze medal in the Super-G events at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics, respectively.
