Jan Šterba ( Czech Jan Štěrba ; June 1, 1981 , Prague ) - Czech kayaker , has been playing for the Czech Republic since 2005. Two-time Olympic bronze medalist, world champion, three-time European champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Czech |
| Specialization | kayak sprint |
| Club | Dukla Prague |
| Date of Birth | June 1, 1981 (age 38) |
| Place of Birth | Prague , Czechoslovakia |
| Growth | 184 cm |
| Weight | 82 cm |
Biography
Jan Šterba was born on June 1, 1981 in Prague . He began to actively engage in rowing from early childhood, was trained at the Dukla sports club in the capital.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 2005, when he joined the main team of the Czech national team and attended the European Championships in Poznan, Poland, from where he brought the silver dignity award, won in the classification of four-seater kayaks at a distance of 200 meters. A year later, he performed at the European home championship in Rachitsa, where he again became the silver medalist in fours at two hundred meters.
In 2009, in the kilometer-four canoe four Shterba received bronze at the European Championships in German Brandenburg. The following season, he added to his track record bronze medals won in the same discipline at the European Championship in Corvera and at the World Championship in Poznan. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London - as part of a four-seater crew, which also included rowers Daniel Havel , Lukash Trefil and Josef Dostal , took third place a thousand meters and thereby won the bronze Olympic medal ( in the final, only crews from Australia and Hungary passed it).
After the London Olympics, Jan Šterba remained in the main composition of the Czech rowing team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2013, he went to represent the country at the European Championships in the Portuguese city of Montemor-o-Velho, where he twice climbed the podium: he took bronze in the doubles at a thousand meters and won the four. In addition, this season in the kilometer race of four-seater crews he won a silver medal at the World Championships in Duisburg, Germany. A year later, in the same discipline, he was the best at the European championship in Brandenburg and at the world championship in Moscow. A year later, at the European Championships in Rachitsa, a thousand meters, he received bronze among the twos and gold among the fours, while at the world championship in Milan he became a bronze medalist in the kilometer discipline of four-seater crews.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Sterba and his partners Daniel Havel , Lukas Trefil and Josef Dostal repeated their achievement 4 years ago, again becoming bronze medalists of the Olympic Games.
After the Olympics in Rio, the main star of the Czech crew Josef Dostal decided to focus on individual distances and was replaced by Yakub Spitsar and Radek Schloff as a member of the four, but they could not win medals in major tournaments.
Links
- Jan Shterba - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Jan Šterba - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )