Milan Kučera (Nordic combined)
Milan Kučera | ||||||||||||||||
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Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
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birthday | June 18, 1974 | |||||||||||||||
place of birth | Jilemnice , Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||
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society | TJ Dukla Liberec | |||||||||||||||
National squad | since 1990 | |||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
End of career | 2002 | |||||||||||||||
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Debut in the World Cup | January 11, 1992 | |||||||||||||||
Overall World Cup | 11. ( 1997/98 ) | |||||||||||||||
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Milan Kučera (born June 18, 1974 in Jilemnice ) is a former Czechoslovak or Czech Nordic combined athlete .
Career
Milan Kučera participated in international competitions for Dukla Liberec from 1990 to 2002. At the Junior World Championship in 1990 in Štrbské Pleso , he won the silver medal in the team competition with the Czechoslovak team. A year later he took part in the Junior World Championships in 1991 in Reit im Winkl and was used in addition to his assignments in the Nordic combined (individual and team) also in the Czechoslovak team of special jumpers. He won all three competitions and was, together with the Norwegian cross-country skier Thomas Alsgaard, the most successful athlete in the championships. He made his debut on January 11, 1992 in Breitenwang in the Nordic Combined World Cup and achieved a podium directly with a third place. In the following years further competitions followed regularly; He achieved further podium places in the World Cup with a third place in Schonach on January 3, 1998 and with a victory in Chaux-Neuve on January 18, 1998.
His last competition start was in February 2002 as part of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .
Kučera now lives in Harrachov .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | January 18, 1998 | Chaux-Neuve | Single K90 / 15 km |
Web links
- Milan Kučera in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
- Milan Kučera in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
- Milan Kučera on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Milan Kučera in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Milan Kučera in the ski jumping database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
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SURNAME | Kučera, Milan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech Nordic combined skier |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jilemnice , Czechoslovakia |