Roman Koudelka

Roman Koudelka
Koudelka at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	9th July 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Turnov ,  Czechoslovakia
size	170 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
society	LSK Lomnice nad Popelkou
Pers. Best	229.0 m ( Planica 2017)
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × National medals 6 × 2 × 1 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 2007 Tarvisio Normal hill Czech championships gold 2008 Liberec Normal hill silver 2008 Liberec Large hill gold 2009 Liberec Large hill gold 2010 Predazzo Large hill silver 2012 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill gold 2013 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill gold 2018 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill gold 2019 Liberec Large hill bronze 2019 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0November 24, 2006
World Cup victories (individual)	005 ( details )
Overall World Cup	007. ( 2014/15 )
Ski flying world cup	010th ( 2011/12 )
Four Hills Tournament	005. ( 2011/12 , 2018/19 )
Raw Air	013. ( 2017 )
Nordic Tournament	019th (2009)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 5 2 3  Ski flying 0 0 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	00August 5, 2006
Grand Prix victories (individual)	001 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	007th ( 2014 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 2 8th  Team jumping 0 1 2
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0July 10, 2004
Overall ranking COC	132nd ( 2005/06 )
last change: September 14, 2019

Roman Koudelka [ ˈkoʊ̯dɛlka ] (born July 9, 1989 in Turnov , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech ski jumper . He starts for the LSK Lomnice nad Popelkou club and was individual world champion at the 2007 Junior World Championships in Tarvisio .

Career

In 2004 he took part in jumping in the Continental Cup for the first time. At the Junior World Championships in 2005 in Rovaniemi , he was 43rd in the individual and fifth with the team. In the following year it was enough to place 14th in the individual in Kranj, but the team was only 15th. In 2006, first appearances in the Summer Grand Prix followed and in November 2006 he completed his first competition in the World Cup in Kuusamo . In February 2007 he achieved his first top 10 result in the World Cup in eighth place in Klingenthal .

Roman Koudelka took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo . He was 25th and ninth in team jumping on the normal hill and on the large hill. At the Junior World Championships in Tarvisio he won the gold medal on the normal hill and was seventh with the team. On July 4th 2007, Koudelka set the hill record at V Popelkách in Lomnice nad Popelkou with a distance of 70.5 meters. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2008 in Oberstdorf, he was sixth with the Czech team. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , in front of a home crowd, he was ninth on the large and normal hill and fifth in the team competition.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he reached 12th place in jumping from the normal hill together with the Norwegian Tom Hilde . He was 23rd on the large hill and seventh with the Czech team. At the Czech Championships in October 2010, which took place in Predazzo , Italy , he was able to win the title. When ski flying in Harrachov on January 9, 2011, he jumped third place for the first time in a World Cup competition on the podium. He was then nominated for the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , but only finished 22nd (large hill) and 35 (normal hill) in the individual. With the Czech teams he was seventh (normal hill) and eighth (large hill).

At the competition in Willingen on February 12, 2012, he finished second, his best place in the World Cup so far and also his first podium finish in an individual World Cup competition. After he started successfully in ski flying in Oberstdorf , he received the nomination for the ski flying world championship 2012 in Vikersund . He landed in 11th place in the individual competition. In the team competition, the team with Jakub Janda , Jan Matura and Lukáš Hlava ended up in sixth place. At the end of the 2011/12 World Cup season he was able to score again several times successfully. He landed in fifth place in Trondheim, among other places. He finished the season in 10th place in the overall World Cup ranking.

In the summer of 2012, he already impressed at the first station in Hinterzarten as part of the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2012 . After a ninth place with the team, he was eighth in the individual competition. However, this remained his only success. In Hinzenbach he missed the qualification and had to be content with a pointless 48th place in Klingenthal . He started the 2012/13 World Cup season without luck and remained without World Cup points until the opening competition of the 2012/13 Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf . After a 29th place there, he was able to achieve his best individual result of the season to date with 18th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . However, it stayed in the top twenty until Harrachov in February.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in the Italian Val di Fiemme he could in two individual disciplines with good results in the qualifiers qualify for the competition. In the end he reached 28th place on the normal hill and 30th place on the large hill. In the team competition he took sixth place together with Lukáš Hlava, Jakub Janda and Jan Matura. At the first World Cup competition after the World Cup in the Finnish Lahti he reached the seventh place with the team.

At the World Ski Flying Championships in Harrachov in 2014 , he finished sixth in the individual in front of a home crowd. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he took 16th place in the individual competition on the normal hill and 19th place on the large hill. With the Czech team he was seventh on the large hill.

On September 28, 2014, Koudelka won a summer Grand Prix show jumping test for the first time in Hinzenbach . On November 23, 2014, at the season opener in Klingenthal , he scored his first World Cup victory ahead of Stefan Kraft and Andreas Wellinger . During the season he achieved three more World Cup victories and numerous top ten placements. He finished the 2014/15 Ski Jumping World Cup in seventh place, the best World Cup placement of his career. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 2015 , he took fourth place in the individual competition on the normal hill, on the large hill he was eighth in both the individual and the team.

In the 2015/16 season he achieved his fifth World Cup victory on March 4, 2016 in Wisła . He also reached nine other top ten placements, which he finished the overall World Cup in eleventh. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2016 in Bad Mitterndorf he was 20th in the singles and sixth with the Czech team. In the 2016/17 season he could no longer confirm this performance. He ended up only twice in the top ten with fifth place as the best individual result. He finished the World Cup as 25th overall. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he reached 14th place on the normal hill, but failed on the large hill as 42nd in the qualification. He finished ninth with the Czech mixed team and seventh with the team on the large hill.

The summer of 2017 was a successful one for Roman Koudelka. In four individual starts, he finished sixth twice and third twice. However, he was unable to confirm this performance the following winter . In several competitions he missed the finals or even failed in qualifying. After only two World Cup placements among the top 30, he took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . There he finished 25th in the individual competitions on the normal hill and the large hill , with the team he missed the final with tenth place.

At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he finished 15th on the normal hill and 22nd on the large hill in the individual jumping. With the men's team of the Czechs he finished eighth and with the mixed team ninth.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	23rd November 2014	Klingenthal	Large hill
2.	December 7, 2014	Lillehammer	Large hill
3.	December 21, 2014	Engelberg	Large hill
4th	January 25, 2015	Sapporo	Large hill
5.	4th March 2016	Wisła	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 28, 2014	Hinzenbach	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2006/07	39.	0087
2007/08	17th	0411
2008/09	16.	0403
2009/10	63.	0020th
2010/11	16.	0382
2011/12	10.	0796
2012/13	49.	0040
2013/14	39.	0123
2014/15	07th	1113
2015/16	11.	0650
2016/17	25th	0223
2017/18	57.	0012
2018/19	14th	0523
2019/20	26th	0220

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2006	14th	157
2007	28.	079
2008	11.	172
2009	11.	210
2010	62.	012
2011	17th	160
2012	46.	032
2013	22nd	124
2014	07th	216
2015	52.	046
2016	54.	030th
2017	08th.	200
2018	10.	168
2019	47.	030th

Web links

Commons : Roman Koudelka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Roman Koudelka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Roman Koudelka on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Roman Koudelka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
2. ↑ Overview of results at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on October 10, 2011.
3. ↑ Results at www.fis-ski.com.
4. ↑ Official FIS World Cup overall ranking of the 2014/15 season (PDF file)