Zdeněk Pecka

Zdeněk Pecka (born February 6, 1954 in Litoměřice ) is a former Czechoslovak rower who won two Olympic bronze medals.

Pecka competed in the 1972 Junior World Championships in the singles and finished sixth. At the 1976 Olympic Games , the Czechoslovak double scull with Jaroslav Hellebrand , Václav Vochoska , Zdeněk Pecka and Vladek Lacina took third place behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. In 1977 the quadruple with Karel Černý , Filip Koudela , Václav Vochoska and Zdeněk Pecka came second at the world championships behind the double foursome from the GDR, in 1978 Vochoska, Pecka, Koudela and Lacina took fourth place.

1979 Vochoska and Pecka switched to double sculls ; at the World Championships in Bled they won silver behind the Norwegian brothers Frank and Alf Hansen . Because of the Olympic boycott , the two Norwegians did not compete in the 1980 Olympic Games ; The boat from the GDR won over the Yugoslavs, Vochoska and Pecka received their second bronze medal. The two Czechoslovaks won their last medal at the World Championships in 1982 when they crossed the finish line in third behind the boats from Norway and the GDR.

From 1989 to 2004 Zdeněk Pecka was Václav Chalupa's trainer.

Web links

• Zdeněk Pecka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Zdeněk Pecka at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )