Slovakia at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

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Slovakia at the
2024 Summer Paralympics
Flag of Slovakia.svg
IPC code SVK
NPC Slovak Paralympic Committee
Website www.spv.sk
in Paris, France
August 28, 2024 (2024-08-28) – September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
Competitors26 in 8 sports
Flag bearers Alena Kánová
Patrik Kuril
Medals
Ranked 35th
Gold
3
Silver
2
Bronze
0
Total
5
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia (1972–1992)

Slovakia competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September.

Contents

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Jozef Metelka Cycling Men's individual pursuit C4 31 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Peter Lovaš
Ján Riapoš
Table tennis Men's doubles MD4 31 August
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Veronika Vadovičová Shooting R3 Mixed 10 metre rifle prone SH1 1 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Radoslav Malenovský Shooting R3 Mixed 10 metre rifle prone SH1 1 September
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Veronika Vadovičová Shooting R8 – 50 m rifle 3 position SH1 3 September
Medals by sport
Sport Gold medal icon.svg Silver medal icon.svg Bronze medal icon.svg Total
Shooting 1203
Cycling 1001
Table tennis 1001
Total3205

Multiple Medallists

Multiple medallists
NameSportGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgTotal
Veronika Vadovičová Shooting 1102

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

SportMenWomenTotal
Archery 303
Athletics 303
Boccia 325
Cycling 202
Equestrian 011
Shooting 123
Swimming 022
Table tennis 617
Total18826

Archery

Slovakia secured three quota places. Two of the quotas being obtained in the men's recurve and compound event by virtue of their result at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic, meanwhile the other being obtained through the 2023 European Para Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. [1]

AthleteEventRanking RoundRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
ScoreSeedOpposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Martin Dorič Men's individual compound 67427Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  MacQueen  (GBR)
L 138-142
Did not advance17
Marcel Pavlík 68816Flag of France.svg  Guerin  (FRA)
L 138-143
Did not advance17
Dávid Ivan Men's individual recurve 60419Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lixue  (CHN)
L 4-6
Did not advance9

Athletics

Slovak track and field athletes achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 World Championships, 2024 World Championships, or through high performance allocation, as long as they meet the minimum entry standard (MES).

Key
Field events
AthleteEventFinal
DistancePosition
Marián Kuřeja Men's club throw F51 Withdrew
Dušan Laczkó Men's discus throw F56 41.204
Ladislav Čuchran Men's javelin throw F54 27.336

Boccia

Slovakia entered five athletes into the Paralympics games, after nominated top four pairs in mixed BC4 events, through the final world ranking; and also by winning the bronze medal in the mixed team event for BC1/BC2, at the 2024 Paralympic Qualification Tournament in Coimbra, Portugal.

AthleteEventPool matchesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
RankOpposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Tomáš Král Men's individual BC1 Flag of Indonesia.svg  Syafa  (INA)
L 3–5
Flag of South Korea.svg  Kim  (KOR)
W 4–2
2 QFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Smith  (GBR)
L 1–6
did not advanced7
Róbert Mezík Men's individual BC2 Flag of El Salvador.svg  Sayes  (ESA)
W 6–1
Flag of France.svg  Maguenni  (FRA)
W 8–0
Flag of Thailand.svg  Vongsa  (THA)
W 5–0
1 QFlag of Argentina.svg  Cristaldo  (ARG)
W 5–4
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Herlangga  (INA)
L 1–6
Flag of Thailand.svg  Vongsa  (THA)
L 2–3
4
Martin Strehársky Men's individual BC4 Flag of Croatia.svg  Komar  (CRO)
L 0-10
Flag of Colombia.svg  Chica  (COL)
L 1-4
Flag of Spain.svg  Agache  (ESP)
W 4-3
3did not advance12
Eliška Jankechová Women's individual BC2 Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Yeung  (HKG)
L 0-8
Flag of El Salvador.svg  Duarte  (ESA)
L 0-12
3did not advance12
Kristína Vozárová Women's individual BC4 Flag of Thailand.svg  Phonsila  (THA)
L 0-11
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Cheung  (HKG)
L 0-14
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Lin  (CHN)
L 0-14
4did not advance16
Tomáš Král
Eliška Jankechová
Róbert Mezík
Mixed team BC1/BC2 Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand  (THA)
W 9-2
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)
W 6-5
1 QFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)
L 4-8
Did not advance
Martin Strehársky
Kristína Vozárová
Mixed pairs BC4 Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)
W 6-2
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand  (THA)
L 1-8
2 QFlag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong  (HKG)
L 10-2
Did not advance

Cycling

Slovakia entered two male para-cyclists after finishing the top eligible nation's at the 2022 UCI Nation's ranking allocation ranking. [2]

Road

AthleteEventTimeRank
Patrik Kuril Men's road race C4-5 DNS=
Men's time trial C4 40:47.869
Jozef Metelka Men's road race C4-5 DNF=
Men's time trial C4 38:42.526

Track

AthleteEventQualificationFinal
TimeRankOpposition
Time
Rank
Jozef Metelka Men's 1000 m time trial C4-5 1:04.9446 Q1:07.9386
Men's 4000 m individual pursuit C4 4:22.8002 QG4:27.920Gold medal icon.svg

Equestrian

Slovakia entered one para-equestrianist into the Paralympic equestrian competition, by virtue of the nations individual final world para dressage rankings.

Individual
AthleteHorseEventTotal
ScoreRank
Lucia Vladovičová Sterngreifer Individual championship test grade I 64.50019

Shooting

Slovakia entered two para-shooter's after achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 world cup, 2022 World Championships, 2023 World Championships, 2023 European Para Championships and 2024 European Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by July 15, 2024. [3]

Men
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Radoslav Malenovský R7 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 114712did not advanced
R3 Mixed 10 metre rifle prone SH1 636.04 Q253.6Silver medal icon.svg
R6 Mixed 50 metre rifle prone SH1 615.026did not advanced
Women
AthleteEventQualificationFinal
PointsRankPointsRank
Veronika Vadovičová R2 – 10 m rifle standing SH1 624.23 Q165.06
R8 – 50 m rifle 3 position SH1 11692 Q456.1Silver medal icon.svg
R3 Mixed 10 metre rifle prone SH1 637.81 Q254.2 PRGold medal icon.svg
Kristína Funková R5 Mixed 10 metre rifle prone SH2 629.529did not advance
R9 Mixed 50 metre rifle prone SH2 611.322did not advance

Swimming

Women
AthleteEventHeatsFinal
ResultRankResultRank
Tatiana Blattnerová 50 m freestyle S11 33.7112did not advance
100 m freestyle S11 1:13.6311did not advance
400 m freestyle S11 5:47.9910did not advance
100 m breaststroke S11 1:36.299did not advance
Karina Petrikovičová 100 m freestyle S12 1:05.169did not advance
100 m backstroke S12 1:14.946 Q1:14.637
100 m breaststroke S12 1:32.519did not advance

Table tennis

Slovakia entered four athletes for the Paralympic games. All of them qualified through the allocations of the final ITTF world ranking.

AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Peter Lovaš Men's individual C2 Flag of Egypt.svg  Elmahsy  (EGY)
W 3-2
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Suchánek  (CZE)
L 0-3
did not advance
Martin Ludrovský Flag of Italy.svg  Crosara  (ITA)
L 1-3
did not advance
Boris Trávníček Men's individual C4 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Nacházel  (CZE)
W 3-0
Flag of South Korea.svg  Kim  (KOR)
L 1-3
did not advance
Peter Mihálik Flag of South Korea.svg  Kim  (KOR)
L 1-3
did not advance
Richard Csejtey Men's individual C8 Flag of Australia.svg  Pellissier  (AUS)
W 3-1
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  McKibbin  (GBR)
L 2-3
did not advance
Peter Mihálik
Boris Trávníček
Men's doubles MD8 Flag of France.svg  Martin  (FRA)/
Flag of France.svg  Thomas  (FRA)
L 0-3
did not advance
Peter Lovaš
Ján Riapoš
Men's doubles MD4 Flag of Spain.svg  Sastre  (ESP)/
Flag of Spain.svg  Toledo  (ESP)
W 3-2
Flag of South Korea.svg  Cha  (KOR)/
Flag of South Korea.svg  Park  (KOR)
W 3-2
Flag of South Korea.svg  Jang  (KOR)/
Flag of South Korea.svg  Park  (KOR)
W 3-1
Gold medal icon.svg
Alena Kánová Women's individual C3 Flag of Croatia.svg  Dretar Karic  (CRO)
L 1-3
did not advance
Alena Kánová
Boris Trávníček
Mixed doubles XD7 Flag of Egypt.svg  Ramadan  (EGY)/
Flag of Egypt.svg  Elshamy  (EGY)
W 3-0
Flag of Turkey.svg  Öztürk  (TUR)/
Flag of Turkey.svg  Duman  (TUR)
W 3-0
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Feng  (CHN)/
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhou  (CHN)
L 1-3
did not advance

See also

References

  1. "Olszewska serves two thrillers to grab Paris 2024 quota and reach final". World Archery. 21 July 2023.
  2. "Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Qualification - 2022 UCI Nations Ranking Allocation" (PDF). UCI. 31 December 2022.
  3. "Quota Allocation after New Delhi" (PDF). Paralympics . 14 May 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2024.