Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Participant (Czechoslovakia)

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The Czechoslovakia took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix in part with a delegation of 24 athletes in three sports. The Czechoslovak NOK had registered 26 athletes for the games, of which 24 took part in competitions. A total of 4 athletes took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Valentin Loos (1920 ice hockey)
• Jan Palouš (1920 ice hockey)
• Josef "Boban" Šroubek (1920 ice hockey)
• Otakar Vindyš (1920 ice hockey)

Balance: With 12 athletes each, the skiers and ice hockey players made up the largest contingents of the Czechoslovak team. But size does not always mean a medal guarantee. Bronze in ice hockey , like in 1920 , was the target. But the team just missed the final round and Josef Adolf also achieved the best result in the skiers with 6th place in the Nordic combined. Otherwise, the Czechoslovaks fought a hot three-way battle with Italy and Switzerland for the best places in the midfield. In doing so, they were slightly ahead. If not for a medal, but for a surprise, the figure skater Josef Slíva , who, to the amazement of journalists, finished fourth, leaving the favored John Page from Great Britain , Pierre Brunet from France and Nathaniel Niles from the USA behind. A “mayfly” because you never heard from him again later.

Participants by sport

Ski Sports (12)

• Josef Adolf

  Nordic combined (6th place)

• Josef Bím

  Nordic combined (13th place), ski jumping (26th place) also military patrol

• Walter Buchberger

  Nordic combined (7th place)

• Antonín Gottstein

  18 km cross-country skiing (18th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (15th place)

• František Hák

  18 km cross-country skiing (place 24)

• Štepán Hevák

  18 km cross-country skiing (17th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (12th place)

• Václav Jón

  18 km cross-country skiing (23rd place)

• Oldrich Kolár

  50 km cross-country skiing (19th place)

• Karel Koldovský

  Ski jumping (20th place)

• Josef Nemecký

  50 km cross-country skiing (17th place)

• Otakar Německý

  Nordic combined (dnf)

• M. Prokopec

  Ski jumping (dns)

• Franz Wende

  Ski jumping (10th place)

Military patrol

30 km military patrol (4th place)

• Josef Bím also skiing
• Karel Buchta ( captain )
• Bohuslav Josífek
• Jan Mittlöhner

Figure skating (1)

• Josef Slíva

  Men (4th place)

Ice Hockey (11)

Ice hockey team (5th place)

• Mila Fleischmann
• Jaroslav Jirkovský
• Jan Krásl
• Valentin Loos
• Josef Maleček
• Jan Palouš
• Jan Pušbauer
• Jaroslav Rezáč
• Josef "Boban" Šroubek
• Jaroslav Stránský
• Otakar Vindyš

Reserve: L. Hofta

Web links

• Official report of the 1924 Olympic Games (PDF file; 86.3 MB)
• Czechoslovak Olympic Team 1924 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )