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After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia sent independent teams to the Olympics starting in 1994. Czechoslovak athletes have won a total of 143 medals at the Summer Games, mostly in gymnastics. The nation also won 25 medals at the Winter Games, with ski jumping and ice hockey as the top medal-producing ...
Czechoslovakia at the 1972 Winter Olympics; IOC code: TCH: NOC: Czechoslovak Olympic Committee: in Sapporo; Competitors: 41 (37 men, 4 women) in 6 sports: Flag bearer: Jiří Raška (ski jumping) Medals Ranked 12th: Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 3: Winter Olympics appearances
The Czech Republic first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has competed in every Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, Czech athletes had competed at the Olympics from 1920 to 1992 as Czechoslovakia and from 1900 to 1912 as Bohemia .
Czechoslovakia won its first gold Winter Olympics medal, achieved by Jiří Raška in the ski jumping normal hill event. [5] Romania won its first, and as of the 2018 Winter Olympics, only medal in a Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh event. [6] [7]
The Winter Olympics in Sochi have begun. Check back throughout the games for the latest schedules and medal counts for each competing country and athlete. Published: Saturday, Feb. 8, 4 a.m. | Updated: Sunday, Feb. 23, 9:27 a.m.
Ondrej Nepela won for Czechoslovakia its second and last Winter Olympics gold medal. Wojciech Fortuna (ski jumper), Poland's first Winter Olympics gold medalist Hosting the Olympic Winter Games for the first time, [ 1 ] Japan's record consisted of a single medal: a silver in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics . [ 8 ]
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Ledecká won gold medals in the super-G in alpine skiing and in the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding, becoming the first person to not only compete in the Winter Olympics using two different types of equipment (skis and snowboard) but to go further and win two gold medals and do so at the same ...
Czechoslovakia at the 1980 Winter Olympics; IOC code: TCH: NOC: Czechoslovak Olympic Committee: in Lake Placid; Competitors: 41 (34 men, 7 women) in 7 sports: Flag bearer: Bohuslav Ebermann (ice hockey) Medals: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1: Winter Olympics appearances