Lukáš Krpálek

Lukáš Krpálek
Lukáš Krpálek at the 2016 Olympic Games
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	November 15, 1990
place of birth	Jihlava ,  Czech Republic
size	198 cm
Weight	115 kg
Career
society	USK Prague
Trainer	Petr Lacina
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro up to 100 kg World championships bronze 2011 Paris up to 100 kg bronze 2013 Rio up to 100 kg gold 2014 Chelyabinsk up to 100 kg gold 2019 Tokyo over 100 kg European championships gold 2013 Budapest up to 100 kg gold 2014 Montpellier up to 100 kg bronze 2017 Warsaw over 100 kg gold 2018 Tel Aviv over 100 kg European Games silver 2015 Baku up to 100 kg Universiade gold 2013 Kazan open gold 2013 Kazan up to 100 kg

Lukáš Krpálek (born November 15, 1990 in Jihlava ) is a Czech judoka .

In 2014 Krpálek became world champion in the weight class up to 100 kg. He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the same weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics , where he was the flag bearer . He was then voted Czech Sportsman of the Year 2016. In addition to a silver medal at the 2015 European Games in Baku , he won the European Championship three times (2013 and 2014 in the weight class up to 100 kg, in 2018 in the heavyweight over 100 kg). In 2019 he won the world heavyweight title, five years after winning the light heavyweight title.

Web links

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

• Lukáš Krpálek on Judoinside (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sportsman of the year 2016