Athlete of the Year 2016 and 2019 Lukáš Krpálek, of course, gold, which was all the more valuable because he won it in the country where judo was born and where he is at home. In addition, in the weight category higher than at previous Games in Rio de Janeiro. There he triumphed in the category up to 100 kg, in the iconic Tokyo hall Budókan in super heavyweight, which no judoka in history has ever succeeded.
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That’s why the honor is also at home. That is why Wednesday’s coronation in the poll of the Club of Sports Journalists of the Czech Republic, which has been held for sixty-three years. That is why he became the Athlete of the Year of the Czech Republic for the third time, as did the speed skater Martina Sáblíková before him, so they are also among the sports legends.
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Only Čáslavská and Železný are still towering over them.
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So far, because who knows what will happen three years after the Olympics in Paris, where Krpálek wants to fight on the tatami for the third gold.
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| The best athletes in the Czech Republic in 2021 | |||
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| 1 Lukáš KRPÁLEK | judo | 1 720 | CZK 250,000 |
| 2. Barbora KREJČÍKOVÁ | tennis | 1 518 | CZK 200,000 |
| 3. Jiří PRSKAVEC | water slalom | 1 411 | 170,000 CZK |
| 4. Jiří LIPTÁK | sport shooting | 1 168 | 140 000 CZK |
| 5. Barbora KREJČÍKOVÁ Kateřina SINIAKOVÁ | tennis | 1 100 | 120,000 CZK |
| 6. Markéta DAVIDOVÁ | biatlon | 930 | CZK 100,000 |
| 7. Patrik SCHICK | football | 814 | CZK 80,000 |
| 8. David KOSTELECKÝ | sport shooting | 813 | CZK 70,000 |
| 9. Jakub VADLEJCH | athletics | 671 | CZK 60,000 |
| 10. Ester LEDECKÁ | snowboarding, alpine skiing | 660 | CZK 50,000 |
| In the first column the athlete, in the second points, in the third financial reward | |||
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In addition to the crystal crown, which Lukáš Krpálek took over from the chairman of the Club of Sports Journalists Zdeněk Pavlis, the best domestic athlete of the year left the gala evening with a financial reward of a quarter of a million crowns.
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Of course, there were also other winners. A check with the amount of 200 thousand was intended for Krejčíková, and 170 thousand for the Sparklers.
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Barbora Krejčíková and Linda Nosková at a press conference after returning from ParisPhoto: Vlastimil Vacek, Right
Tennis player Barbora Krejčíková, the winner of the Grand Slam tournament in Paris and two other WTA tournaments, which also won gold in Tokyo, finished second in a poll of 256 sports journalists. However, with Kateřina Siniaková in doubles, so they scored together in this year’s Athlete of the Year 2021 poll. Of course, thanks to the triumphs at Roland Garros in Paris and the Champions Tournament, they took fifth place.
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Jiří Prskavec finished third in the water slalom winner before them, and another holder of Tokyo gold, shooter Jiří Lipták, finished fourth.
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The world champion, biathlete Markéta Davidová, took sixth place. Patrik Schick was seventh. The eighth place belongs to another successful shooter, the silver medalist from the Olympic Games, David Kostelecký. The ninth was javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch, who also brought a silver medal from the Olympics. And the tenth place was won by the successful skier and snowboarder in one, Ester Ledecká.
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Czech tennis players Kateřina Siniaková (left) and Barbora Krejčíková at the Champions Tournament
Eighty voters put Krpálek in first place, Krejčíková took 73 first places and water slalom skier Jiří Prskavec thirteen. By the way, except for the athlete Jakub Vadlejch, all the nominated athletes appeared at least once on some ballot paper.
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With the exception of Ester Ledecká and David Kostelecký, all nominated athletes reached their maximum this year. Barbora Krejčíková, Jiří Lipták and Patrik Schick are in the top ten for the first time, Jiří Prskavec was still sixth at the top, Markéta Davidová and the tennis pair Krejčíková – Siniaková were ninth, Jakub Vadlejch was tenth once in the past.
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| The best teams of 2021 | ||
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| 1. BASKETBALL – national team of the Czech Republic men | 497 | CZK 100,000 |
| 2. FOOTBALL – Czech national team men | 348 | CZK 80,000 |
| 3. HOCKEY – representation of the Czech Republic women | 335 | CZK 60,000 |
| In the first column the team, in the second points, in the third financial reward | ||
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For the second time in history, the national basketball team won the team category. He succeeded for the first time in 2019, when he defeated football Slavia with a lead of 146 points. This year, the lead is almost the same, the football team is lagging behind by 149 points.
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The Czech footballers defended last year’s second place, by 13 points ahead of the women’s hockey team, which is in the results of the Athlete of the Year poll for the first time in history.
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During the gala evening at the Hilton Hotel in Prague, which has been organized by the BPS sport marekting agency for a quarter of a century, wrestler Vítězslav Mácha was inducted into the imaginary Hall of Fame of Czech sport. The two-time world champion and Olympic champion from Munich in 1972 was declared a sports legend.
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| The best juniors of the year | ||
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| 1. František DOUBEK | athletics | 81 |
| 2. Linda NOSKOVÁ | tennis | 70 |
| 3. Klára KNEBLOVÁ | water slalom | 68 |
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Athlete František Doubek, tennis player Linda Nosková and water slalom skier Klára Kneblová were declared the best juniors of the ending year.
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For the second year in a row, a trophy was awarded for the Devotion to Sport under the auspices of the National Sports Agency. Aleš Suk became its holder this year. The pedagogue and youth coach, who has been actively involved in the development of classic skiing in the Podkrkonoší region for more than 55 years, trains young skiers, runs a historical skiing club and builds, for example, the Krkonoše Ski Museum in Vrchlabí.
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