Zdeněk Doležal

Zdeněk Doležal
nation	Czechoslovakia
birthday	September 1, 1931
place of birth	Prague
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Věra Suchánková
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships silver Paris 1958 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Budapest 1955 Couples gold Vienna 1957 Couples gold Bratislava 1958 Couples

Zdeněk Doležal (born September 1, 1931 in Prague ) is a former Czech figure skater who started in pair skating for Czechoslovakia .

His figure skating partner was Věra Suchánková . From 1956 to 1958 they were Czechoslovak champions. Already in their first international appearance in 1955 in Budapest they became vice-European champions behind the Hungarians Marianna and László Nagy . In their World Cup debut later that year, they were sixth. In 1956 they did not succeed in defending their EM medal. They finished the European Championship in fifth place. They finished eighth in their only Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. In 1956 and 1957 they did not contest any world championships . In 1957 in Vienna and 1958 in Bratislava Doležal and Suchánková became European champions . In their second and last World Cup participation, the couple won the silver medal in Paris in 1958, behind Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul .

Results

Pair skating

(with Věra Suchánková )

Competition / year	1955	1956	1957	1958
winter Olympics		8th.
World championships	6th			2.
European championships	2.	5.	1.	1.
Czechoslovak Championships		1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Zdeněk Doležal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )