Filip Ospalý

0 Filip Ospalý
at Ironman 70.3 Austria , 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	15th May 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
size	179 cm
Weight	69 kg
societies
Current	Tri-Flow Bad Endbach and EC Sartrouville
successes
2000, 2004, 2008	3 × Olympians
2001	European champion triathlon short distance
2002, 2003	2 × European runner-up triathlon short distance
2006	European champion duathlon
2010	Second Ironman 70.3 World Championship
2015	European champion triathlon middle distance
status
inactive

Filip Ospalý ^{? / i} (bornMay 15, 1976inÚstí nad Labem) is aCzech triathlete. He is a three-time Olympic athlete (2000, 2004, 2008),Europeanduathlonchampion (2006) and European triathlon champion on the Olympic distance (2001) and the middle distance (2015). In 2010 he finished second at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships.

Career

Filip Ospalý has been a triathlon professional since 1992. In 1995 he finished fourth at the World Junior Championships on the Olympic distance (short distance: 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running). In August 1998 he was third in the student world championship in Kiel.

2000 Summer Olympics

Ospalý took part in the first triathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . After failing to finish in his first participation, he finished 29th in his second participation after 1: 57: 17.58 h of the competition.

European champion triathlon short distance 2001

Ospalý celebrated one of his greatest successes at the 2001 European Championships when he won the title in Karlsbad . He was also Vice European Champion in 2002 and 2003.

European Duathlon Champion 2006

In 2006 he was also European Duathlon Champion on the short distance in Rimini, Italy.

In 2008 he started again in Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games . In the German triathlon Bundesliga Ospalý started for Tri-Flow Bad Endbach . In the French championship series Grand Prix de Triathlon he starts for the club EC Sartrouville .

In November 2010 he was second in Florida behind the German Michael Raelert at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. In 2012 he won the Ironman 70.3 Austria for the third time in a row .

In 2013 he started the Ironman distance in Florida for the first time (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling, 42.195 km running) and finished in third place.

European champion triathlon middle distance 2015

In May 2015, the then 39-year-old became European champion in the middle-distance triathlon in Rimini.

In September 2016 he could not finish the race at the world championship on the long distance triathlon and has not appeared internationally since.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

The team from Sartrouville with Alistair (left) and Jonathan Brownlee , Filip Ospalý, Javier Gómez and Étienne Diemunsch in Nice (2011)

Web links

Commons : Filip Ospalý  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website Filip Ospalýs (Czech)
• Profile for Filip Ospalý at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 17, 2014
• Filip Ospalý's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 14, 2018 (English).
• Filip Ospalý in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Triathlon EM: Brownlee shows Gomez
2. ↑ Höfer convinces in the Senec men's race
3. ↑ Filip Ospalý (CZE) .
4. ↑ Hamburg celebrates the Triathlon Festival
5. ↑ Triathlon European Championship 2001: Filip Ospaly and Michelle Dillon become European champions in triathlon in Karlsbad / Czech Republic
6. ↑ Citytriathlon Heilbronn: Schildknecht and Bazlen get the victory (June 23, 2013)
7. ↑ IRONMAN 70.3 St. Pölten: The anniversary edition is in the starting blocks