Pavel Ploc

Pavel Ploc
Pavel Ploc 2013
nation	Czechoslovakia
birthday	June 15, 1964
place of birth	Jilemnice ,  Czechoslovakia
size	175 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
society	Dukla Liberec
National squad	since 1982
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1984 Sarajevo Large hill silver 1988 Calgary Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1984 Engelberg team bronze 1989 Lahti team  Ski flying world championships silver 1983 Harrachov singles bronze 1985 Planica singles
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	March 12, 1982
World Cup victories (individual)	10 ( details )
Overall World Cup	2. ( 1987/88 )
Four Hills Tournament	5. ( 1984/85 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 10 6th 7th  Ski flying 0 3 1

Pavel Ploc (born June 15, 1964 in Jilemnice ) is a former Czech ski jumper and politician .

Career

He made his debut in the World Cup on March 12, 1982 in ski flying in Tauplitz , Austria ; he instantly reached twelfth place. On March 18, 1983 he was runner-up in the ski flying world championship in Harrachov , two months earlier, he won his first world cup competition on the large hill at the same location. He won a total of ten World Cup competitions in his career, most recently in 1990 in Sollefteå, Sweden . In the overall World Cup ranking, his best placings were second place in the 1987/88 season and third place in the winter of 1983/84 .

At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , he won the bronze medal on the large hill, and he also won bronze with the team at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Engelberg that same year . In 1985 he reached third place at the ski flying world championship in Planica . At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , Canada , he won the silver medal behind Matti Nykänen on the normal hill . He won his last medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1989 . With the Czechoslovak team he won bronze in team jumping.

His last World Cup competition was on December 15, 1991 in Sapporo . He hadn't been able to successfully adapt to the emerging V style . Today Pavel Ploc runs a ski pension in Harrachov and is involved in politics. In the last Czech parliamentary elections he was elected a member of the ČSSD party.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 9, 1983	Harrachov	Large hill
2.	March 9, 1984	Lillehammer	Large hill
3.	March 25, 1984	Planica	Large hill
4th	January 1, 1986	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
5.	December 11, 1987	Lake Placid	Large hill
6th	December 12, 1987	Lake Placid	Normal hill
7th	December 30, 1987	Oberstdorf	Large hill
8th.	February 22, 1988	Gstaad	Normal hill
9.	January 14, 1989	Liberec	Large hill
10.	March 11, 1990	Sollefteå	Normal hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	38.	016
1982/83	10.	093
1983/84	03.	148
1984/85	07th	117
1985/86	13.	088
1986/87	39.	015th
1987/88	02.	187
1988/89	19th	042
1989/90	07th	020th
1990/91	20th	049

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Harrachov	Czech Republic	181.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 19, 1983	February 23, 1985
innsbruck	Austria	112.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	4th January 1985	4th January 1994
Oberstdorf	Germany	117.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 30, 1987	December 30, 1993

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .

Web links

• Pavel Ploc in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Pavel Ploc in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Pavel Ploc on the website of the ČSSD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 385
2. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 98
3. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 173
4. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 101
5. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 182