Jaroslav Eliáš (14 January 1906 – 1 March 1962) was a Czechoslovak

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

. He competed in the men's hammer throw at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. Eliáš finished 10th in the hammer throw at the 1934 European Athletics Championships. He won the 1945 Czechoslovak Athletics Championships hammer throw with a mark of 44.50 m and placed at 12 other high-level Czech athletics championships. Eliáš competed for the Slavia Praha athletics club.

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* 1906 births 1962 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Czech male hammer throwers Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia People from Kolín District Athletes from the Central Bohemian Region Czechoslovak Athletics Championships winners {{CzechRepublic-athletics-bio-stub