Jakub Dudycha (born 5 September 2005) is a Czech middle distance runner. He is Czech national record holder over

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. He won Czech national titles in 2023 and 2024.

Career

Dudycha is from Vysoké Mýto. In 2022 he won the 800m at

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and reached the semi-finals of the Junior World Championships in

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, Colombia. He set a personal best time of 1:48.58 at the Golden Spike event in

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in June 2022. He won the Czech Athletics Championships in

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in July 2023 over 800 metres. He won the

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800 metres race in Jerusalem in August 2023. The following month, Dudycha broke the Czech junior record for 800 meters in Zagreb, running 1:45.84. In

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, in February 2024 he improved his own junior indoor Czech record in the 800 meters with a time of 1:47.12. He was selected for the European Athletics Championships in

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in 2024 where, still aged 18 years-old, he ran a personal best time of 1:44.89 in the qualification heats, the third fastest time in Czech history. That month, he set a senior national record of 1:44.82 in

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. Later that month he retained his Czech national title.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dudycha, Jakub 2005 births Living people Czech male middle-distance runners Czech Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics