Radek Juška
Radek Juška 
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| birthday | 8th March 1993 (age 27) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Starovičky , Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 193 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 8.31 m 
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| society | PSK Olymp Praha | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Josef Karas | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: August 10, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Radek Juška (born March 8, 1993 in Starovičky ) is a Czech long jumper .
Athletic career
Radek Juška gained his first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona , where he was eliminated in qualification with 7.11 m. In 2015 he won the silver medal behind the Swede Michel Tornéus at the European Indoor Championships in Prague with 8.10 m . He then won the silver medal at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn with 8.00 m. He also qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where he finished eleventh with 7.57 m in the final . The following year he finished tenth at the World Indoor Championships in Portland with a width of 7.88 m and was fourth at the European Championships in Amsterdam with 7.93 m. He also took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was eliminated there with 7.84 m in qualification .
In 2017 he again took part in the World Championships in London and finished tenth in the final with 8.02 m . Two weeks later he won the Summer Universiade in Taipei with 8.02 m . At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham he finished seventh with 7.99 m and twelfth at the European Championships in Berlin with 7.73 m. The following year he reached seventh place at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a width of 7.79 m.
In 2014 and 2017, as well as in 2019 and 2020 , Juška was the Czech champion in the long jump outdoors and from 2014 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2020 also in the hall.
Personal bests
- Long jump: 8.31 m (+1.4 m / s), August 27, 2017 in Taipei ( Czech record )
- Long jump (hall): 8.10 m, March 6, 2015 in Prague
Web links
- Radek Juška in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Radek Juška in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
- Profile at the Czech Athletics Federation
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| SURNAME | Juška, Radek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech long jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starovičky |