Lukáš Hlava

Lukáš Hlava
Lukáš Hlava (2017)
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	10th September 1984 (age 35)
place of birth	Turnov ,  Czechoslovakia
size	181 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	college student
Career
society	Dukla Liberec
Trainer	David Jiroutek
National squad	since 2003
Pers. Best	217.5 m ( Planica 2013)
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
National medals 1 × 2 × 2 ×
Czech championships bronze 2008 Liberec Large hill silver 2010 Predazzo Normal hill silver 2011 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill gold 2012 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill bronze 2012 Wisła Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 11, 2003
Overall World Cup	14th ( 2011/12 )
Ski flying world cup	17th ( 2011/12 )
Four Hills Tournament	13th ( 2011/12 )
Nordic Tournament	42nd (2007)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	0August 9, 2003
Overall Grand Prix	21. ( 2015 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 1  Team jumping 0 1 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0February 2, 2002
COC wins (individual)	04 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	02. ( 2008/09 )
Beskydy tour	02. ( 2018 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 4th 2 8th

Lukáš Hlava (born September 10, 1984 in Turnov ) is a former Czech ski jumper .

Career

Hlava made his debut at an international ski jumping competition at the Junior World Championships in Schonach in 2002, where he finished 31st. After several starts in the Continental Cup (COC), where he mostly missed the second round, he was able to start in the World Cup for the first time on January 11, 2003 via the national group . Although he only landed in the back places there, as in his second World Cup start in early February with ski flying on the Kulm , he was appointed to the Czech team for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme . After he was not set up when jumping on the normal hill, he was able to achieve a 44th place on the large hill and was part of the Czech contingent in the team competition the following day. After the World Championships, he only took part in World Cup and Grand Prix competitions sporadically , never reaching the second round. At the beginning of 2004 he returned to the COC, where he took part in competitions more regularly. Although he brought only mediocre performance here, he took part in the ski flying world championship in 2004 in Planica , but retired as 47th after the first of four rounds. As a result, he appeared for the remainder of the 2003/04 season and in the two following seasons only in the Continental Cup, but was again in the Czech team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2005 in Oberstdorf . After that, Hlava only competed in the COC for a long time and only got some World Cup appearances again in the 2006/07 season. In ski flying on Vikersundbakken , he was able to achieve World Cup points for the first time on January 13, 2007 with a 27th place. Shortly after that, on February 25th, he celebrated his first victory in a Continental Cup competition in Oberhof . After commuting between the Grand Prix and the COC at the 2007 summer jumping competitions, he started again in the World Cup at the beginning of the 2007/08 winter season. After he never reached the second round there or did not even qualify for the competition, he switched back to the Continental Cup. Only in the jumping competitions in the Czech Republic did he get World Cup appearances through the national group. With the beginning of the 2009/10 season he was again a permanent member of the Czech World Cup team.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Hlava retired from the normal hill as 38th level with Jernej Damjan after the first round. Hlava fell on January 6th, 2012 and suffered an open nasal bone fracture at the Three Kings jumping event as part of the Four Hills Tournament . On March 4, 2012, he was on the Salpausselkä normal hill , the jumping had been relocated from the large hill due to strong winds, in Lahti, Finland, behind Daiki Itō and Anders Bardal, third and thus achieved his first podium at a World Cup competition. He finished the 2011/12 World Cup season in 14th place in the overall World Cup, which was his most successful season to date.

On August 19, 2012, he was third in the Grand Prix jumping in Hinterzarten and thus achieved his first podium place in the Grand Prix. At the Czech championships on September 1, 2012 from the normal hill in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm he was able to win his first national championship title. The following winter, he finished eighth in the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck, his last top ten position in an individual World Cup competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he finished 25th on the normal hill and 24th on the large hill in the individual competitions. With the Czech team he finished seventh.

Hlava was part of the Czech squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . He only took part in the individual competition on the normal hill and finished in 46th place. He was not nominated for the two competitions on the large hill.

After falling performance in previous years, he started again in the Continental Cup in the 2014/15 season , after having only competed in the World Cup and Grand Prix for four years. In the COC, however, he did not get past fifth place in Wisła . In the World Cup , too , he reached the finals only once in Engelberg as 27th and only got four World Cup points in the 2014/15 season. He nevertheless took part in the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun . In the individual on the normal hill he finished 32nd, in the team competition he was eighth. Also in the 2015/16 season he commuted between the COC and the World Cup, but his performance improved again. He was third in the COC jumping in Sapporo on January 23, 2016 and reached the finals in the World Cup several times . His best individual placement was 15th in Nizhny Tagil and he was 35th in the overall World Cup with 89 points.

On August 26th, 2016 he won the summer COC jumping competition in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm , the following day he came second. Hlava was part of the Czech squad for the 2017 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . However, he was only a substitute and was not nominated for any competition.

In February 2018, Hlava took part in the Winter Olympics for the third time in Pyeongchang , although he had not won any World Cup points in the 2017/18 season . He was only nominated for the individual competition on the large hill and failed there as 52nd in the qualification. The 2017/18 season was the first season since 2007/08 in which he did not score any World Cup points.

In May 2019, Hlava announced the end of his career and switched to the coaching staff of the Czech team.

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 25, 2007	Oberhof	Normal hill
2.	February 8, 2009	Zakopane	Large hill
3.	26th August 2016	Frenštát pod Radhoštěm	Normal hill
4th	19th August 2018	Frenštát pod Radhoštěm	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	82.	005
2008/09	58.	019th
2009/10	48.	056
2010/11	50.	053
2011/12	14th	404
2012/13	35.	159
2013/14	57.	053
2014/15	78.	004th
2015/16	35.	089
2016/17	49.	026th
2018/19	54.	017th

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2009	75.	002
2010	27.	073
2011	24.	124
2012	24.	092
2013	51.	046
2014	56.	022nd
2015	21st	138
2016	25th	088
2017	78.	005
2018	36.	049

Web links

Commons : Lukáš Hlava  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lukáš Hlava in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lukáš Hlava in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
2. ↑ "Lukas Hlava suffers from an open broken nose" at SKIJUMPING.de
3. ↑ “Ito wins for the first time in Europe” at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on March 4, 2012.
4. ↑ "Lukas Hlava Czech master"  ( 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. at www.berkutschi.com, accessed September 4, 2012.  
5. ↑ Lukas Hlava: From jumper to trainer. In: berkutschi.com. May 16, 2019, accessed May 16, 2019 .