Peter Jiricek

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Peter Jiricek Road cycling
Peter Jiricek after the CH-Cup Final 2012 in Rothenburg
Peter Jiricek after the CH-Cup Final 2012 in Rothenburg
To person
Nickname Pistol Pit
Date of birth 28th February 1978 (age 42)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Bike ball
To the team
Current team RC Winterthur
function Outfield player
End of career 2017
Most important successes

World Champion World champion in 1999 , 2002 and 2009

Last updated: December 22, 2017

Peter Jiricek , actually Petr Jiricek (born February 28, 1978 ) is a former Swiss - Czech cyclist and three-time world champion in cycling for Switzerland.

Career

His father Petr Jiricek was also a cyclist and, in view of the overwhelming power of the Pospíšil brothers at the time , emigrated from the Czech Republic to Switzerland in 1979 , where he first played for Sirnach and won four Swiss championship titles with his partner (but did not officially receive the title as a foreigner) and later as a coach RV Winterthur was. Eleven years after he settled in Switzerland, his father was naturalized with him shortly after his birth in Winterthur .

Peter Jiricek was born in 1978 and actually bears the same name as his father, namely Petr, but is invariably mentioned in the German form of his name. Through his father, Jiricek got into cycling at an early age, when he gave him a bike when he was young.

World champion bike ball 1999

Jiricek, who took over the position of field player, soon belonged to the Swiss top and became world champion for the first time in 1999 at the age of 21. However, he was already present at the 1997 World Cup in his hometown together with Timo Reichen as a substitute team. After that, however, the two went their separate ways and Jiricek first teamed up with Christoph Hauri , with whom he became world champion at the 1999 World Cup in his first active participation in a World Cup. Then he changed partners again and played with Hanspeter Flachsmann from now on . With him he finished third in the 2000 World Cup, but it wasn't enough to win a gold medal.

While he could not win a World Cup medal in 2001, he became world champion for the second time in 2002 with his new partner Paul Looser . In the following two years it was enough for the duo for silver. In 2005, Jiricek got back together with his former partner Reichen. Together with this, it was enough at the home World Cup in Winterthur in 2007 . He finally became world champion for the third time in 2009 with Marcel Waldispühl as a new partner, with whom he became vice world champion in 2010. From the 2013 season, Jiricek will play together with Waldispühl in the RVW-Radballsektion successor club Radballclub Winterthur , which arose from a merger with the second Winterthur cycling club ATB Winterthur .

With 14 participations in a World Cup final between 2002 and 2016, Jiricek is the sole record holder in this regard. After the 2016 season, Peter Jiricek ended his active cycling career.

Jiricek lives in Winterthur and, together with his father, has been running his own bicycle shop “Star Bicycle” in Winterthur since 2004, which specializes in bikes for indoor cycling.

successes

  • World Champion World Championship
  • Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg Overall World Cup
  • European Cup Elite
    • 1st place 2003, 2004
    • 2nd place 2005
    • 3rd place in 2002
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss championship
    • 1st place 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010
    • 2nd place 2001, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
    • 3rd place in 2006, 2014, 2016
  • Swiss Cup
    • 1st place 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2016
    • 2nd place in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
    • 3rd place in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013
  • European Cup U23
    • 1st place 1996
    • 2nd place 1997

World Cup Statistics

year partner 1. T. 2. T. 3rd T. 4. T. Points Qual final
2002 Paul Looser silver 4th 9 gold 146 6th 6th
2003 Paul Looser silver gold gold gold 195 1 silver
2004 Paul Looser gold gold bronze silver 185 1 4th
2005 Timo Reichen gold bronze silver - (a) 155 5 silver
2006 Timo Reichen gold bronze bronze bronze 170 4th 7th
2007 Timo Reichen 4th 7th gold bronze 145 5 4th
2008 Marcel Waldispühl (b) 4th bronze 8th silver 138 8th silver
2009 Marcel Waldispühl bronze gold 5 gold 170 2 8th
2010 Marcel Waldispühl bronze bronze bronze gold 170 4th 6th
2011 Marcel Waldispühl 5 gold silver bronze 165 3 5
2012 Marcel Waldispühl gold 4th bronze - 125 8th 6th
2013 Marcel Waldispühl silver silver gold silver 185 2 5
2014 Marcel Waldispühl silver 4th gold gold 180 1 silver
2015 Marcel Waldispühl 7th 4th bronze 6th 120 9 -
2016 Marcel Waldispühl gold bronze bronze 4th 165 6th bronze
As of December 24, 2017


Participations: 73
goldgold medals: 18
silversilver medals: 14
bronzebronze medals: 17

Legend
  • Year: Calls the year of the World Cup.
  • Partner: Playing partner in this World Cup year.
  • 1st day: (1st tournament, out of 4) the athlete's rank in this tournament.
  • Points: World Cup points that the player had at the end of qualification.
  • Quali: Rank at the end of the qualification.
  • Final: Rank in the final, if this was achieved.
(a) Peter Jiricek was replaced in Höchst by Patric Saurenmann in 2005.
(b) Peter Jiricek completed the first two tournaments in 2008 with his old partner Timo Reichen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b According to most sources, the surname Jiricek - also in Czech sources and in the online entry of the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich - is written without a hatschek . However, there are a few sources on the Internet in which Jiricek is written with only one hatschek on the c: Jiriček. However, this version of the surname is unlikely, since the correct Czech version with two hatscheks and an acute acute would be: Jiříček - but there is no source for this spelling and is therefore unlikely.
  2. ↑ Entry in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich for Star Bicycle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  3. ↑ All world champions since 1927
  4. ↑ https://www.winterthur-glossar.ch/app/default/pub/fw.action/wine.article?ce_id=407&ce_name=Person
personal data
SURNAME Jiricek, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jiricek, Petr (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1978