David Kostelecký (; born May 12, 1975, in

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sports shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's Trap event at the

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and the silver medal in the same event at the

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Sports career

He started shooting after receiving an air rifle from his grandfather, a hunter, and following his older brother. Being a junior, he was labeled unperspective, as he stated in 2021. Nevertheless, in 1993, Kostelecký won a bronze medal at the European junior championships in his home Brno. He won junior world championships in 1995 in Nicosia, where he finished second in the European championships in 1995, starting his senior championships medal collection. In 1996, he participated in his first Olympics, finishing 31st in the qualification round behind both his compatriots ( Jiří Gach finished eighth and Pavel Kubec 13th). In 2002 he became European champion in Lonato taking advantage from the basic round result of 122 and keeping off Marco Venturini in the final. It was the first individual European gold in trap for any Czech shooter. He also finished second in the 2006

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final. After adding silver in 2011 and bronze in 2014, Kostelecký won his second European championships title in 2017 in Baku.

Personal life

Kostelecký married Slovak shooter Lenka Barteková in 2010, a year later their son Daniel was born.

Olympic results

Records

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* 1975 births Living people Czech male sport shooters Olympic shooters for the Czech Republic Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic Olympic silver medalists for the Czech Republic World record holders in shooting Sportspeople from Brno Trap and double trap shooters Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2015 European Games Shooters at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in shooting European Games gold medalists for the Czech Republic Shooters at the 2023 European Games 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-sportshooting-bio-stub