Jiří Prskavec (canoeist, Born 1993)
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Jiří Prskavec (; born 18 May 1993) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008, specializing in the K1 discipline. In 2023 he also started competing in C1. He also occasionally appears in kayak cross. With an Olympic gold and a bronze, 2 individual world titles and 5 individual European titles, he is one of the most successful K1 paddlers of his generation.


Career

Prskavec competed at two Olympic games. In his first appearance he won a bronze medal in the K1 event at the
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after touching one gate in the final. He then won gold in the K1 event at the delayed
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. He has qualified for the upcoming
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where he will be defending his title. Prskavec won 11 medals at the
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including five individual medals. He won gold in the K1 event in
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and then again in
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. He also three silvers (
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). The other six came from the K1 team events as part of the Czech team. These include three golds (2015,
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), two silvers (
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, 2019) and a bronze (2018) Prskavec also won 20 medals (15 golds, 2 silver and 3 bronzes) at the
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. Ten of these medals are individual (7 golds and 3 bronzes), including a gold medal in the K1 event at the
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. Prskavec won the overall
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title in the K1 class a total of three times (
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and
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). He finished the 2016, 2019-2021 and 2023 seasons as the World No. 1. Prskavec started competing in the C1 discipline in 2023 and had immediate success. Just qualifying for the strong Czech national team was already considered an achievement. He then shocked the canoeing world by winning bronze in his first ever international C1 appearance at a World Cup in Augsburg. Prskavec competed at the
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where he won bronze in the K1 slalom event.


Personal life

His father
Jiří Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE'') is a Czech masculine given name, equivalent to English George. Notable people with the name include: B *Georg Benda (Jiří Antonín Benda), Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister *Jiří Baborovský, Czech physica ...
is a former slalom canoeist and a medalist from World and European Championships.


Career statistics


Major championships results timeline


World Cup individual podiums


Complete World Cup results


References


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prskavec, Jiri 1993 births Slalom canoeists Czech male canoeists Living people Canoeists at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Mělník Canoeists from the Central Bohemian Region Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for the Czech Republic Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in canoeing Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2023 European Games European Games gold medalists for the Czech Republic European Games medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Czech sportsmen