Jan Vrba ( czech Jan Vrba , January 28, 1982 , Jablonec nad Nisou ) - Czech bobsledder , pilot, has been playing for the Czech Republic since 2004. The participant of two winter Olympic games, the repeated winner of national championship, the prize-winner of various stages of the Cup of Europe.
Jan Vrba | |
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general information | |
Citizenship | Czech |
Date of Birth | |
Place of Birth | |
Growth | 186 cm |
Weight | 85 kg |
Career | |
Position | pilot |
Trainer | Vaclav Pus |
In the national team | since 2004 |
Status | is competing |
Last updated: January 3, 2013 | |
Biography
Jan Vrba was born on January 28, 1982 in the town of Jablonec nad Nisou , Liberec Region . He began to actively engage in bobsleigh in 2004, at the same time he joined the national team as an overclocker and made his debut in the World Cup - at the stage in Austrian Igls, their four-seater crew finished only twenty-eighth. Because of the high competition, the athlete could not make it to the main team for a long time, so in 2005, of all the major international competitions, he only visited the January stage of the World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where he ranked fourth on the nineteenth line. For the next two seasons, he was compelled to compete in the less prestigious European Cup, then he decided to retrain as a pilot and in the new role he took the fifteenth place at the 2008 World Youth Championship.
In the next two seasons, Vrba occasionally made his way to the World Cup and from time to time got into the top twenty, these rating points were enough for him to qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , where he later finished sixth with his fourth. After completing his career, Ivo Danilevich Vrba became the leading pilot of the Czech Republic, in 2011 for the first time participated in the races of the adult world championship, showing on the German Königssee track the twenty-first result with a two-seater and seventeenth with four-seater. Some progress was made in the next season, when their fourth was located on the eighteenth line of the overall World Cup and performed better at the World Championships in Lake Placid, taking eighteenth and thirteenth places in twos and fours, respectively.
In 2014, Vrba visited the Olympic Games in Sochi , where he finished 24th in the two-seater program and 16th in the four-seater program.