Pavel Maslák

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Pavel Maslák 2011 in Ostrava

Pavel Maslák (born February 21, 1991 in Havířov ) is a Czech athlete who competes on various sprint distances . As the Czech record holder and European champion, he celebrated his greatest successes in the 400-meter run .

Maslák started at the age of sixteen at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Ostrava over 400 meters, but was eliminated in the preliminary run. Even at the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Bydgoszcz , he could not qualify for the second round in the 100-meter run . He achieved his first major international success by winning the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2009 Junior European Championships in Novi Sad . At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton , he was seventh in the 200-meter run . Over the same distance he won the bronze medal at the U23 European Championships in 2011 in Ostrava and reached the semi-finals at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu .

In 2012 Maslák made his final breakthrough in the activity class. At the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul , he finished fifth in the 400-meter run. The stadium round subsequently proved to be his strongest discipline. In the open air season he improved the 34-year-old Czech record over this distance to 45.31 s. A few weeks later it even increased to 45.17 s. Maslák celebrated his greatest success to date with victory in the 400-meter run at the European Championships in Helsinki . It was the first European championship medal for a Czech in this discipline. With the Czech 4 x 400 meter relay , he only finished sixth in the final, despite a new national record of 3: 02.72 minutes. At the Olympic Games in London he improved the national record again in the run-up: In 44.91 s he ran under 45 seconds for the first time. In the semifinals, however, was the end of the line for him.

In March 2013 Maslák was European indoor champion in Gothenburg, Sweden , with the 4 x 400 meter relay he won the bronze medal. At the World Championships in Moscow , he finished fifth.

In 2014 Maslák won his third international title in the 400-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. He improved his own national indoor record to 45.24 s and climbed to second place in the European best list. At the beginning of the indoor season he had already proven his good form when he broke the indoor European records over the rarely run 300 and 500 meters. At Flanders Indoor in Gent, he improved the old record of Frenchman Leslie Djhone by 32 hundredths of a second in 32.15 s . In Prague he undercut the indoor European record of Israeli Donald Sanford in 1: 00.36 minutes by half a second over 500 meters . On May 9, he set a new national record over the 400-meter distance in Doha with 44.79 seconds. Due to a thigh injury, he had to end his competition season at the end of May and forego defending his European title. Since the beginning of 2013 Maslak has been trained by Juventus Turin's former team manager Angelo Fernandez.

At the European Indoor Championships in Prague in 2015 , Maslák won superiorly and ran a new championship record with a time of 45.33 s. He won the silver medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam . In 2018 he won gold at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Athletic Association : Czech and Turkish records, European leads for Stambolova, Harrer, Gollnow and Pavey ( Memento of the original dated May 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.european-athletics.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), May 20, 2012
  2. ↑ European Athletic Association: Maslak claims 400m gold ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), June 29, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.european-athletics.org
  3. ↑ HDsports.at: Gold hat trick for Great Britain & heptathlon scandal . 4th August 2012
  4. ↑ IAAF: Report: men's 400m final - Sopot 2014 (English), March 8, 2014
  5. ↑ RTBF : Maslak bat le record d'Europe du 300m à Gand (French), February 9, 2014
  6. ↑ European Athletic Association: Stunning performances from Ukhov and Maslak in Prague (English), February 26, 2014
  7. ↑ Injured Maslak misses 400m title defense, season over . Yahoo Sports. July 15, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Maslák, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Havířov , Czechoslovakia