Jaroslav Kulhavý (; born 8 January 1985 in

Ústí nad Orlicí Ústí nad Orlicí (; ) is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 14,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument z ...

), is a Czech mountain biker

Career

For the first time, he became more aware of himself in 2003, when he became junior champion of the world and Europe. As a result, he also looked at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but the Olympic race did not finish due to the defect. In 2008 he entered the Elite category and gradually began to overcome the best results of the Czech bikers. At the World Championships in St. Petersburg, Wendel finished eleventh, improving three places to the best Czech result of Miloslav Kvasnička in 1991.In 2009, he finished the 11th European Championship, at the World Cup in Canberra, Australia, the ninth. The medal position in the World Cup race has not been successful yet. In 2010, the first major medal successes came. In July, he won the title of European Champion in Israeli Haifa.At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he defended the gold in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Swiss cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal. He won the gold medal in the cross-country event at the

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and the silver medal four years later at the

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. He is the overall winner of the UCI World Cup in 2011, along with taking 3rd place in 2010 and 2012. In 2013 and 2015 Kulhavy partnered with Christoph Sauser to win the Absa Cape Epic mountain bike stage race ("Tour de France of mountain biking") Kulhavy raced the Absa Cape Epic with Sauser again in March, 2017, but their bid for a third win together was foiled by Nino Schurter and Matthias Stirnemann (Scott-Sram), who eventually prevailed by eight minutes. In June 2014 he took the world title in mountain bike marathon. At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he came in second in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Switzerland cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal.

Major results

;2003 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships ;2007 : 2nd Silver medal europe

Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup ;2008 : 1st Cross-country, National Championships ;2010 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Cross-country, UEC European Championships : 1st Marathon, National Championships : 2nd Silver medal uci

Cross-country, UCI World Championships : 3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup ::1st Windham ::2nd

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;2011 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Cross-country, UCI World Championships : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Cross-country, UEC European Championships : 1st Jersey white

Overall UCI XCO World Cup ::1st

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::1st Windham ::1st Nové Město ::1st Val di Sole ::2nd

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: 2nd

Marathon, UCI World Championships ;2012 : 1st Gold medal olympic

Cross-country,

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: 3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup ::2nd Nové Město ::2nd La Bresse ::3rd

;2013 : 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic

Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser) : UCI XCO World Cup ::1st

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::3rd Albstadt ::3rd Val di Sole ;2014 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Marathon, UCI World Championships : 2nd Silver medal europe

Marathon, UEC European Championships ;2015 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Marathon, UEC European Championships : 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic

Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser) : 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup ::1st Nové Město ::1st

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::3rd Albstadt ;2016 : 2nd Silver medal olympic

Cross-country,

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Cross-country, UCI World Championships ;2017 : UCI XCO World Cup ::2nd

;2018 : 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic

Overall Cape Epic (with Howard Grotts) ;2019 : 1st Jersey leopard Cape Epic

Overall Outcast Rider, Cape Epic ;2022 : 1st Marathon, National Championships : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Marathon, UEC European Championships

World Cup of Mountain Bikes XCO

References

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