Juraj Demeč (born 29 January 1945 in

Uzhhorod Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the B ...

, Russian occupied Ruthenia, present-day

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) is a

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former

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competed in the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

. He represented Czechoslovakia at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

. He was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Championships (1966, 1971, 1974) and was part of the gold medal-winning team in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the individu ...

at the

1971 European Athletics Championships The 10th (X) European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results ...

, running alongside Ladislav Kříž, Jiří Kynos, and

Luděk Bohman Luděk Bohman (born 2 December 1946 in Nymburk) is a Czech former athlete who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of sprinter Ludvík Bohman and bobsledder Martin Bohman Martin Bohman (born April 5, 1980 in Prague) is a Czech b ...

. He was also a relay silver medallist at the

1966 European Indoor Games The 1966 European Indoor Games were the first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games took place on 27 March 1966 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, a city of West Germany. It was the only edition held on a s ...

, an event that would become the European Athletics Indoor Championships. He participated in the Olympic Games of 1972, being eliminated in series on 100 m. But in the 4 × 100 m relay, he finished 4th in the final and beat Czechoslovakia's record in 38 s 82 (record in force for the Czech Republic alone until 2019, the team, made up of Jaroslav Matoušek, Juraj Demeč, Jiří Kynos,

, including no Slovaks). The previous year, he won the gold medal in the relay with 39 s 3 at the

References

1945 births Living people Czechoslovak male sprinters Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Uzhhorod European Athletics Championships medalists {{Slovakia-athletics-bio-stub