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| Nationality | Czech | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 January 2006 Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.03m (Rome, 2024) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Petr Meindlschmid (born 15 January 2006) is a Czech long jumper. In 2024, he became Czech national champion.
Petr Meindlschmid was born on 15 January 2006 in Uherské Hradiště. [1] He was a footballer at youth level, playing for 1. FC Slovácko and the Czech national under-16 football team. [2] [3]
He won gold in the long jump at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica. [4] He also won gold in the long jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor. [5] [6]
In June 2024, he won the long jump at the Josef Odlozil Memorial event in Prague with a jump of 7.92 metres. [7] Later that month he finished seventh in the final of the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome with a new Czech junior record jump of 8.03 metres. [8] In June 2024, he won the Czech U20 long jump title in Ostrava, [9] and the Czech senior national title in Zlín. [10]
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