Zbyněk Hubač

Zbyněk Hubač
nation	Czechoslovakia
birthday	September 1, 1940
place of birth	Trutnov
size	173 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
society	TJ Dukla Liberec
status	resigned
End of career	1973
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	3. ( 1968/69 , 1970/71 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 0 3

Zbyněk Hubač (born September 1, 1940 in Trutnov ) is a former Czechoslovakian ski jumper .

Hubač started in 1961 in the Four Hills Tournament . At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , he jumped from the normal hill to 30th and from the large hill to 19th place. At the Four Hills Tournament in 1967/68 in Partenkirchen , he made it into the top ten with seventh place. He achieved this placement a year earlier in Bischofshofen . In 1968, Hubač in Bischofshofen achieved third place for the first time on the podium. In the overall ranking he reached fifth place. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , he jumped from the normal hill to 19th and from the large hill to 25th place. For the Four Hills Tournament 1968/69 he was able to further improve his performance and in the end reached third place in the overall ranking. On January 3, 1971, he was able to win a jumping at the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck for the first and only time in his career. After further good placements, he again achieved third place in the overall ranking. In 1972 Hubač started his third Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo . In the individual jumping on the normal hill he ended up tied with Frithjof Prydz and Rolf Nordgren in eleventh place. From the large hill he reached 15th place. With his unsuccessful participation in the Four Hills Tournament in 1972/73 he ended his active ski jumping career.

After his active career he became a coach at his hometown club TJ Dukla Liberec .

Web links

• Zbyněk Hubač in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Zbyněk Hubač in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )