František Šimůnek

František Šimůnek
nation	Czechoslovakia
birthday	December 2, 1910
place of birth	Zlatá Olešnice ,  Czechoslovakia
size	175 cm
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined ski jumping
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1933 Innsbruck CC 4 × 10 km

František Šimůnek (born December 2, 1910 in Zlatá Olešnice ; † unknown) was a Czechoslovakian skier who was active in the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined .

Career

Šimůnek started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberhof in 1931 , but clearly missed the top 60 in ski jumping with jumps to 54 and 50.5 meters. A year later at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 , he reached rank 23 in individual jumping. In the following individual competition in Nordic combined, he landed eighth after good performance in cross-country skiing and jumping.

In Innsbruck he succeeded at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1933 together with Cyril Musil , Vladimír Novák and Antonín Bartoň winning the silver medal with the 4x10 km cross-country skiing relay. In ski jumping he was not part of the team. In the cross-country skiing individual over 18 km, he landed on 10th place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1935 in Vysoké Tatry , Šimůnek finished 31st in ski jumping singles. Another year later, he was again part of the Czechoslovak squad at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . For the first time he started in all three Nordic disciplines. In cross-country skiing over 18 km, he just missed the top 10 in eleventh place. After finishing fifth in the individual combination, he reached this place with the cross-country relay together with Cyril Musil, Gustl Berauer and Lukáš Mihalák .

A year later he started with Musil, Berauer and as a new team member for the first time Rudolf Vrána at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1937 . Once again it was only fifth behind Norway, Finland, Italy and Sweden.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1938 , Šimůnek again clearly missed the top 50 in ski jumping. After a forced break due to the Second World War , he started again internationally at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . At the age of 37, however, he had to bow to the strong field of participants as 72nd in cross-country skiing and 36th in Nordic combined and ended his active career after the games.

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
• Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997 . Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996, ISBN 82-7164-044-5 .

Web links

• František Šimůnek in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• František Šimůnek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 149
2. ^ Hermann Hansen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997 , p. 46
3. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 150
4. ↑ INNSBRUCK 1933 ( Czech ) In: skolabezky.cz . January 16, 2009. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 7, 2014. 
5. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 152
6. ^ Hermann Hansen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997 , p. 57
7. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 154