Jan Kudlička
Jan Kudlička 
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| birthday | 29th April 1988 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Opava , Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||
| size | 183 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 5.83 m 
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| society | TJ Dukla Praha | |||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Boleslav Patera | |||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: August 8, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
Jan Kudlička (born April 29, 1988 in Opava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech pole vaulter .
Athletic career
Kudlička gained his first international experience when he finished sixth at the World Youth Championships in Marrakech in 2005 with a skipped 5.05 m. The following year he reached fifth place at the Junior World Championships in Beijing with a height of 5.30 m and in 2007 he failed to qualify at the European Junior Championships in Hengelo . On August 25, he then improved the Czech junior record in the pole vault from 5.43 m to 5.61 m. However, this increase in performance came too late for a nomination for the World Championships in Osaka , which had started on the same day.
In the following season, Kudlička increased his best performance to 5.70 m and took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, where he finished ninth with a crossed 5.45 m. At the U23 European Championships in Kaunas in 2009 he was eighth with a height of 5.15 m, while he failed in the qualification at the World Championships in Berlin with 5.40 m. At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , he finished tenth with 5.60 m.
In the following years, Kudlička repeatedly achieved placements below the top ten at international championships, but without being able to advance into the medal ranks: He was ninth at the 2011 World Championships , sixth at the 2012 European Championships , eighth at the 2012 Olympic Games , and fifth at the European Indoor Championships 2013 and seventh at the 2013 World Championships . In the 2013 season he celebrated a few notable successes at athletics meetings such as his second place at the Areva meeting and the ISTAF Berlin as well as his third place at the Ostrava Golden Spike .
At the Indoor World Championships 2014 in Sopot, Poland, Kudlička won the bronze medal with a personal best of 5.80 m behind the Greek Konstandinos Filippidis and the German Malte Mohr . He won the same at the European Championships in Zurich with 5.70 m. In 2016 he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam. 2017 missed Kudlička fourth barely a medal at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and missed at the World Championships in London at 5.45 m the finals . Also at the European Championships in Berlin the following year, he was eliminated with a 5.36 m qualification.
Kudlička is eight-time Czech champion in outdoor pole vault (2008, 2010–2014, 2017, 2019 and 2020 ) and six times indoors (2013, 2015–2018 and 2020).
Personal best
Web links
- Jan Kudlička in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Jan Kudlička in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait of Jan Kudlička at the Český atletický svaz (Czech)
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Kudlička, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opava , Czechoslovakia |