Jan Procházka (born 11 September 1984) is a Czech orienteering competitor and world champion. He won a gold medal in the relay at the 2012

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

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, together with

Tomáš Dlabaja Tomáš Dlabaja (born 13 October 1983) is a Czech orienteering competitor. World Champion in the relay at World Orienteering Championships 2012 in Switzerland along with Jan Sedivy and Jan Prochazka after nearly giving up the elite orienteering ...

and Jan Šedivý. He runs for Finnish club

Kalevan Rasti Kalevan Rasti is an orienteering club based in Finland. Recently it has been one of the most successful clubs in world orienteering, winning the Jukola and Tiomila relays multiple times. The club won the Tiomila relay in 1983 with Risto Vairin ...

. Prochazka has also won silver at the 2004

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Relay and the

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relay 10 years later.

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Jan Prochazka
at World of O Runners * 1984 births Living people Czech male orienteers Czech foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-orienteering-bio-stub