Vlastibor Klimeš

Vlastibor Klimeš
Player information
birthday	17th August 1953
place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
size	197 cm
position	Forward
Clubs as active
00000000 Slavia Prague
National team
1975-1982	Czechoslovakia	267
Clubs as coaches
... 1996–1997 BG 74 Göttingen ( AC ) 1997–2003 BG 74 Göttingen 2003–2005 Wolfenbüttel Dukes 2005–2006 BG 74 Göttingen women (AC) 2006–2009 BG 74 Göttingen women 2010–2013 Wolfenbüttel Wildcats

Vlastibor Klimeš medal table
Basketball (men)
Czechoslovakia
European Championship
bronze	1977 Belgium
bronze	1981 Czechoslovakia

Vlastibor Klimeš (born August 17, 1953 in Prague ) is a Czech basketball coach and former player. As a national player in his home country, he won two bronze medals at the European basketball championships and was a participant in the 1980 Olympic Games . As a basketball coach, he was particularly successful with the Wolfenbüttel Wildcats women's team, with which he became German champion in 2012 .

Career

Klimeš played in his hometown of Prague for the renowned club Slavia, which, in addition to national championships, had won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1969 . After the 1974 World Cup, he moved to the Czechoslovak national team and was represented in all the national team's final squads up to and including the 1982 World Cup except for the 1976 Olympic Games . At the European Championship finals in 1977 you won all the preliminary round games against, among others, Olympic runner-up and defending champion Yugoslavia , but lost the semi-finals against the world champion and Olympic third party Soviet Union . In the "small final" they secured the bronze medal against Italy . At the following World Cup in 1978 they just missed the intermediate round and won all five games in the placement round, so that they finished ninth in the end. At the European Championship finals in 1979 you won all the preliminary round games against hosts Italy, among others, but in the final round you lost all games, including after extra time against the eventual runner-up European champions Israel . So it was only enough to get back into the small final, where you were defeated by the reigning world champion Yugoslavia as in the intermediate round.

In 1980 Klimeš was also represented in the Olympic squad of Czechoslovakia after his wife Dana Klimešová , b. Ptáčková, who had already been represented four years earlier as the Czechoslovak national basketball player in Montreal in 1976 . At the beginning of the 1980 Olympic tournament , Czechoslovakia lost just two points to Brazil and thus missed the final round after another defeat by the host Soviet Union. After two more defeats in the placement round, they only finished ninth in the end. At the following European Championship finals in 1981 in their own country, the host lost a game against Spain in the preliminary round . In the second round, there were two more defeats against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, so that it was just enough - for the third time in a row - to make it into the small final. Here you could defeat Spain this time and secure the bronze medal in front of your own audience. At the 1982 World Cup , Klimeš was again represented in the national team. A preliminary round victory against Uruguay was not enough to move into the final round. In the placement round they were victorious again like four years before, but lost the last tournament game against Brazil and this time only finished tenth this time.

Klimeš later settled in the Federal Republic of Germany and worked after his active career as a player as a coach for basketball teams. Among other things, he trained the second division team of the BG 74 in Göttingen until 2003 , where he is employed as a caretaker and hall warden at the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium . He then moved to the league competitor Dukes from Wolfenbüttel . After two years he moved back to Göttingen, where this time he was the assistant coach of the club's women's team in the 1st women's basketball league . In the 2006/07 season he took over from head coach Mahmut Ataman from his post and coached the team until the end of the 2008/09 season. After financial problems that had occurred a year earlier, the club's license was withdrawn at the end of the season. After a year Klimeš returned to Wolfenbüttel and was also the coach of the women's first division team Wildcats. But similar to the men's team Dukes and the women of BG 74 Göttingen, this club was illiquid a year later, whereby the license could be transferred to the new club BV Wolfenbüttel. At the end of the following season 2011/12 Klimeš was with the team that continued under the name Wildcats, German champions. But only one year later they only played the main round of the 2012/13 season before finally giving back the license after renewed illiquidity.

Klimeš and his wife Dana also have successful children in basketball. While her daughter Zuzana Klimešová (* 1979) was also an Olympic participant for the Czech Republic at the 2004 Olympic Games and played in the US professional league WNBA , her son Martin is active for Klimeš's former team in Prague, which now plays under the name USK and from the former Braunschweiger Basketball Bundesliga coach Ken Scalabroni is trained.

Web links

• archive.fiba.com: Players - Vlastimil KLIMES (TCH) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
• Vlastibor Klimeš in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Geisendorf: Vlastibor Klimes swims with Wildcats Wolfenbüttel on a wave of success. Göttinger Tageblatt , January 26, 2011, accessed on September 7, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Klimes now trainer in Wolfenbüttel. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 25, 2010, accessed on September 7, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Frank Wöstmann: Klimes is changing. Wolfenbütteler Zeitung , June 13, 2005, accessed on July 9, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Georg Gulde: USC Eisvögel: basketball players lose against Wolfenbüttel. Badische Zeitung , January 23, 2012, accessed on September 7, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Frank Wöstmann: The Wildcats have filed for bankruptcy. Wolfenbütteler Zeitung , June 21, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2013 .