Jaromír Šimůnek

Jaromír Šimůnek
Association	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic
birthday	2nd February 1955
place of birth	Semily,  Czechoslovakia
Career
job	Trainer
society	SKP Jymbolx Jablonec nad Nisou
Debut in the World Cup	1978 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1988 2004
World Cup balance
last change: November 11, 2010

Jaromír Šimůnek (born February 2, 1955 in Semily ) is a former Czech or Czechoslovak biathlete until the separation of Czechoslovakia .

Jaromír Šimůnek lives in Jablonec nad Nisou and works as a trainer. He was active for SKP Jymbolx . His first international championships were the 1978 biathlon world championships in Hochfilzen , where he was 25th of the individual. A year later he finished sixth in the individual and seven in the sprint in Ruhpolding and in the relay together with Jiří Suchánek , Peter Zelinka and Zdeněk Pavlíček . At the 1980 Winter Olympics , he ran in the sprint in 16th place and was eleventh with Josef Skalník , Zelinka and Zdeněk Hák .

In the year after the Olympic Games, the 1981 World Championships in Lahti were the highlight of the season. Šimůnek was only used in the relay that took part in the Olympic line-up and in which Šimůnek was the starting runner. She finished the race in seventh place. At the 1982 World Championships in Minsk , the Czech was 31st in the individual and 24th in the sprint race. In 1983 he competed in all three races in Antholz , where he was 35th of the individual, 28th of the sprint and sixth in the relay with Vítězslav Jureček , Skalník and Jan Matouš . 1984 Šimůnek entered the Olympic Games for the second time. In Sarajevo he reached the 25th place in the individual and was sixth in the relay competition with Hák, Zelinka and Matouš. The Czech ran his sixth World Championships in 1985 in Ruhpolding. He was 24th of the individual and with Vladimír Pospíchal , Hák and Matouš again sixth in the relay race. This result achieved Šimůnek in 1986 in Oslo with Matouš, Hák and Jiří Holubec in the relay race, he was also in the individual as well as in the sprint 15. 1987 he entered Lake Placid for the eighth and last time at the biathlon world championships . In the individual he reached the 46th place, in the sprint the 47th place. The last major event was the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . Šimůnek was only used in the sprint, where he finished 34th, shared with the Canadian Glenn Rupertus . In the biathlon world cup , the Czech has consistently achieved good results in his career, such as a fifth place in a sprint in 1984 in Falun . After the Olympic Games in 1988, he initially ended his career.

Ten years after his retirement, Šimůnek celebrated his comeback, now in cross-country skiing - summer biathlon . In Osrblie he took part in his first summer biathlon world championships in 1998 and was 23rd in the sprint and 34th in the pursuit. With Roman Dostál , Miroslav Bárta and Zdeněk Vítek , he was also tenth in the relay race. Two years later , the Czech sprinted to 34th place in Khanty-Mansiysk . The last time he took part in a summer World Cup was in Forni Avoltri in 2003 . In the sprint he was 34th like three years earlier, improved to 25th place in the pursuit race and was fifth in the relay race with Luboš Schorný , Miroslav Balatka and Petr Graclik . The last international championships of his career were the first ever European Summer Biathlon Championships in 2004 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld , where at 49 he was by far the oldest participant. In the sprint he finished in 15th place and was 12th in the pursuit race based on it. In addition, he missed a medal in the mixed relay race with Michaela Balatková , Pavla Matyášová and Schorný by 3.1 seconds against the relay of Slovakia. Šimůnek competed in his last international races in 2006 as a cross-country skier at the FIS races in Horni Misecky .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	1				5	6th
Scoring	8th	8th			6th	22nd
Starts	19th	16			6th	41
Status: data not complete; including World Cup and Olympic results

Web links

• Jaromír Šimůnek in the IBU database (English)
• Jaromír Šimůnek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jaromír Šimůnek in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Statistics at the-sports.org