Jan Janků (born 10 August 1971 in
Česká Lípa
Česká Lípa (; ) is a town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 37,000 inhabitants, making it the most populated Czech town without city status. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an urban monume ...
) is a former
Czech
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high jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
er.
His personal bests are 2.30 m indoors and 2.29 m outdoors. His younger brother
Tomáš Janků
Tomáš Janků (; born 27 December 1974 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a former Czech high jumper.
His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg. In 2010, he married Czech pole vaulter Kateřina Baďu ...
is also a prominent high jumper.
He is married to Katerina Babova, a sister of the high jumper
Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába () (born 2 September 1984 in Karviná) is a Czech Republic, Czech high jumper.
At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres, winning a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache. In th ...
. The couple has one son, Jan Junior, born in 2007.
Achievements
References
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1971 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Česká Lípa
Czech male high jumpers
Athletes from the Liberec Region
Czech Athletics Championships winners
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