Ivan Kučírek
Ivan Kučírek (born November 25, 1946 in Břeclav ) is a former Czechoslovak track cyclist and three-time world champion.
Career
Ivan Kučírek was a specialist in tandem races and sprinting on the track. He belonged to the sport clubs Favorit Brno and ASD Dukla Pardubice . In 1980 , 1981 and 1982 he was world champion in this discipline with Pavel Martínek , and vice-world champion in 1976 and 1983 . At the Track World Championships in 1971, he finished third in the sprint .
Kučírek started three times at the Olympic Games, 1964 in Tokyo , 1968 in Mexico and 1972 in Munich , where he was fifth each time.
Kučírek was eleven times Czechoslovakian champion in sprint and twelve times Czechoslovakian champion in tandem. He won his first national championship at the age of 17, when the championship races were still held with international participation. Behind the winner Giordano Turrini , he was the best-placed local sprinter.
He won the prestigious Grand Prix Framar in the Czech Republic four times .
Honors
In 1971, Kučírek was the winner of the annual survey of the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) of the Československý svaz cyklistiky cycling association. In 2006 he was honored with an admission to the Hall of Fame of the Best Sportsmen in Brno .
Private
Kučírek lives in Brno-Kohoutovice and works for his daughter Gabriela's company in Modřice .
Individual evidence
- ↑ encyklopedie.brna.cz , accessed on June 25, 2011 (Czech)
- ↑ galantbrno.cz , accessed on June 25, 2011 (Czech)
- ↑ kohoutovice.cz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 76 kB), accessed on June 25, 2011 (Czech)
- ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 41/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 8 .
- ↑ Král cyklistiky. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Czech).
- ↑ galantbrno.cz , accessed on June 25, 2011 (Czech)
- ↑ ceskysvazcyklistiky.czj / 2005_kveten.pdf , accessed on June 25, 2011 (Czech)
Web links
- Ivan Kučírek in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Ivan Kučírek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
1966 Pierre Trentin / Daniel Morelon | 1967 Bruno Gonzato / Dino Verzini | 1968 Giordano Turrini / Walter Gorini | 1969 Jürgen Geschke / Werner Otto | 1970 Jürgen Barth / Rainer Müller | 1971 Jürgen Geschke / Werner Otto | 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978 Vladimír Vačkář / Miroslav Vymazal |
1975 , 1976 Benedykt Kocot / Janusz Kotliński | 1979 Yavé Cahard / Franck Dépine | 1980, 1981, 1982 Ivan Kučírek / Pavel Martínek | 1983 Philippe Vernet / Franck Dépine | 1984 Frank Weber / Hans-Jürgen Greil | 1985 Vítězslav Vobořil / Roman Řehounek | 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994 Fabrice Colas / Frédéric Magné | 1990, 1992 Gianluca Capitano / Federico Paris | 1991 Emanuel Raasch / Eyk Pokorny | 1993 Federico Paris / Roberto Chiappa
The winners from 1975 were disqualified afterwards because they did not go through the doping control. See: [1]
1945, 1948–1950, 1955 Václav Machek | 1946, 1947, 1952 Jaroslav Cihlář | 1951 Zdeněk Kosta | 1953 Karel Machek | 1954, 1956–1957 Ladislav Fouček | 1958 Jaromir Řehounek | 1959–1961 Ladislav Molnár | 1962 Jirí Pravecěc | 1963, 1965, 1967–1969, 1971, 1973–1974, 1976, 1978–1979 Ivan Kučírek | 1964, 1966 Josef Kratina | 1970, 1975 Vladimír Vačkář | 1972, 1977 Anton Tkáč | 1980, 1984–1989 Vratislav Šustr | 1981 Miroslav Hloušek | 1982 Miroslav Vymazal | 1983 Miloš Augustin | 1990, 1992 Jaroslav Jeřábek | 1991 Pavel Buráň
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kučírek, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Břeclav |