Jiří Polívka (born March 2, 1974, in
Hradec Králové
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) is a
Czech
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sprint canoer
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who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). At the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta
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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the
K-2 500 m and
K-4 1000 m events.
Four years later in
Sydney
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, Polívka was eliminated in the semifinals of the
K-4 1000 m event.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1974 births
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Czech male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for the Czech Republic
Canoeists from Hradec Králové
21st-century Czech sportsmen
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