Tomáš Staněk (athlete)

Tomáš Staněk
Tomáš Staněk (2015)
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	13th June 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Prague ,  Czechoslovakia
size	190 cm
Weight	127 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	22.17 m
society	Dukla Praha
status	active
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Indoor world championships bronze Birmingham 2018 21.44 m  European Indoor Championships silver Belgrade 2017 21.43 m bronze Glasgow 2019 21.25 m
last change: March 5, 2020

Tomáš Staněk (born June 13, 1991 in Prague ) is a Czech shot putter .

Athletic career

Tomáš Staněk gained his first international experience at the U23 European Championships 2013 in Tampere , where he finished fifth with 19.18 m. The following year he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Sopot and was eliminated there with 20.06 m in qualification, as well as at the European Championships in Zurich with 19.61 m. At the European Home Championships in Prague 2015, he did not succeed in qualifying. But he qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where a width of 19.64 m was not enough for the finals . He finished the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland with 19.46 m in 16th place. He also qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was eliminated with 19.76 m in qualification .

In 2017, with a width of 21.43 m, he won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade behind the Pole Konrad Bukowiecki . He qualified for the World Championships in London , where he was fourth with 21.41 m in the final . In 2018 he won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 21.44 m behind New Zealander Tomas Walsh and David Storl from Germany. This made him one of the favorites for the European Championships in Berlin , which he finished in fourth place with a push of 21.16 m. The following year he won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 21.25 m behind the Poles Michał Haratyk and the German Storl. In October he reached the final at the World Championships in Doha once more , in which he finished tenth with 20.79 m.

In 2017 and 2019 Staněk became the Czech champion in the shot put outdoors and in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 also in the hall.

Personal bests

• Shot put: 22.01 m, June 2, 2017 in Schönebeck ( Czech record )
  • Shot put (hall): 22.17 m, February 6, 2018 in Düsseldorf ( Czech record )

Web links

Commons : Tomáš Staněk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tomáš Staněk in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tomáš Staněk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )