Adam Ptáčník (; born 4 December 1985 in
Pardubice
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) is a Czech amateur track cyclist. He shared the men's sprint title with
Tomáš Bábek
Tomáš Bábek (born 4 June 1987) is a Czech track cyclist. He shared the men's sprint title with Adam Ptáčník and Denis Špička at the Czech Track Cycling Championships, and later represented the Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics. O ...
and
Denis Špička
Denis Špička (born 29 August 1988 in Ústí nad Orlicí) is a Czech cyclist. He competed in the keirin and men's team sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics (finishing 13th and 11th respectively), and the keirin race at the 2012 Summer Olympics
...
at the Czech Track Cycling Championships, and later represented the
Czech Republic
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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. Ptacnik also won two bronze medals each in
Keirin and team sprint at the 2005
European Junior Championships in
Fiorenzuola
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,
Italy
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.
Ptacnik qualified for the Czech squad in two track cycling events at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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by receiving one of the team's three available berths based on
UCI's selection process from the Track World Rankings. In the
men's team sprint, held on the first day of the program, Ptacnik and his teammates Babek and Spicka battled in an opening heat against the U.S. trio of
Michael Blatchford
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,
Giddeon Massie
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, and
Adam Duvendeck
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with an eleventh-place time in 45.678 and an average speed of 59.109 km/h, failing to advance further to the top eight match round. Two days later, in the
men's sprint, Ptacnik narrowly missed out the round-of-sixteen matchup by a four-thousandth second margin on the morning prelims in 10.569, finishing nineteenth overall in the process.
At the
2010 European Track Championships
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All ten Olympic events ( sprint, team sprint, keirin, ...
in
Pruszków
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,
Poland
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, Ptacnik overhauled the French duo
François Pervis
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and
Michael D'Almeida
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on the final stretch to grab the bronze medal in
men's Keirin.
Career highlights
;2003
* European Junior Championships (Team sprint),
Moscow
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(RUS)
;2005
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (1 km time trial),
Prague
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(CZE)
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Sprint),
Prague
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(CZE)
* European Junior Championships (Keirin),
Fiorenzuola
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(ITA)
* European Junior Championships (Team sprint),
Fiorenzuola
Fiorenzuola d'Arda (; egl, label= Piacentino, Fiurinsöla, or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Italy in the province of Piacenza, part of the Emilia-Romagna region. Its name derives from ''Florentia'' ("prosperous" in Latin). The "d'Arda" portion r ...
(ITA)
* Stage 1,
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* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
...
(1 km time trial),
Moscow
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(RUS)
;2008
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Team sprint with
Tomáš Bábek
Tomáš Bábek (born 4 June 1987) is a Czech track cyclist. He shared the men's sprint title with Adam Ptáčník and Denis Špička at the Czech Track Cycling Championships, and later represented the Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics. O ...
and
Denis Špička
Denis Špička (born 29 August 1988 in Ústí nad Orlicí) is a Czech cyclist. He competed in the keirin and men's team sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics (finishing 13th and 11th respectively), and the keirin race at the 2012 Summer Olympics
...
),
Brno
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(CZE)
* 11th
Olympic Games
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(
Team sprint with Tomáš Bábek and Denis Špička),
Beijing
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(CHN)
* 19th
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),
Beijing
}
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(CHN)
;2010
*
European Championships
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(Keirin),
Pruszków
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(POL)
* 12th
UCI World Championships (Team sprint),
Copenhagen
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(DEN)
* 26th
UCI World Championships (Keirin),
Copenhagen
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(DEN)
* 33rd
UCI World Championships (Sprint),
Copenhagen
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(DEN)
;2011
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Team sprint),
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
(CZE)
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Sprint),
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
(CZE)
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Keirin),
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
(CZE)
;2013
* Czech Track Cycling Championships (Keirin),
Brno
Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...
(CZE)
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile*
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1985 births
Living people
Czech male cyclists
Czech track cyclists
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for the Czech Republic
Sportspeople from Pardubice