Radoslav Holúbek (born 28 November 1975) is a Slovak hurdler specializing in the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

, who also was a member of the national record-breaking Slovak 4 × 400 m relay team.

Career

At the 1994 World Junior Championships, he advanced to the semi-finals of the

400 m hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once ar ...

by finishing third in his heat. He placed sixth in his semi-final, running slower and failing to advance to the finals by 0.45 seconds. Holúbek later competed at the 1998 European Championships, the

1999 Military World Games The 1999 Military World Games was the second edition of the global multi-sport event for military personnel, organised by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). It was hosted in Zagreb, Croatia from 8 to 17 August. Mar del Plata, Argent ...

and the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

without reaching the final. At the Sydney Olympics, he competed in both the men's 4 × 400 metres relay and the

, finishing seventh individually in his heat. At the European Cup, Holúbek mainly competed for Slovakia in the Second League. He finished second in the 400 m hurdles in

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

(and the same placement in the 4 × 400 metres relay), won the 400 m hurdles competition at the 1997 European Cup, and was then promoted with Slovakia to the First League, where he finished fifth in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. Back in the Second League, he finished second in

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

and won in

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

. Domestically, he was a three-time

Slovak Athletic Federation The Slovak Athletic Federation ( Slovak ''Slovenský atletický zväz'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Slovakia. Affiliations *International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) *European Athletic Association (EAA) ...

outdoor champion in the hurdles, as well as the 1995 indoor champion in the flat 400 m. His personal best time was 50.18 seconds, achieved in July 2000 in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

References

1975 births Living people Slovak male sprinters Slovak male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Slovakia {{Slovakia-athletics-bio-stub