Zdeněk Vítek
Zdeněk Vítek | |||||||
Association | Czech Republic | ||||||
birthday | 25 Jul 1977 (age 43) | ||||||
place of birth | Vrchlabí | ||||||
Career | |||||||
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job | PE teacher | ||||||
society | SKP Jablonec | ||||||
Trainer | Ondrej Rybar | ||||||
Admission to the national team |
1998 | ||||||
Debut in the World Cup | 1997 | ||||||
World Cup victories | 3 (1 individual victory) | ||||||
status | resigned | ||||||
End of career | 2014 | ||||||
Medal table | |||||||
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World Cup balance | |||||||
Overall World Cup | 16. ( 2002/03 ) | ||||||
Zdeněk Vítek (born July 25, 1977 in Vrchlabí , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech biathlete and today's biathlon trainer.
The sports teacher who lives in Jilemnice has been practicing biathlon since 1992 and was appointed to the national team of the Czech Republic for the first time in 1998. He starts for SKP Jablonec and is trained by Ondrej Rybar. His greatest success so far was winning the bronze medal at the 2003 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk . Two World Cup victories are also on the books.
Zdeněk Vítek has participated in the Winter Olympics four times. The games in Turin were the best, as Vítek proved to be among the best in the world by finishing 10th in the sprint and 16th in the pursuit.
After the 2013/14 season he ended his sporting career and took over the office of women's coach in the Czech association from the following season. Four years later, he moved to the men's team in this position. For the 2020/21 season , he finally took over the men's Czech IBU Cup team.
Biathlon World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
- 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
- Relay: including mixed relays
placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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1st place | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
2nd place | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
3rd place | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
Top 10 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 37 | 58 |
Scoring | 12 | 39 | 36 | 13 | 51 | 151 |
Starts | 34 | 88 | 60 | 14th | 51 | 247 |
Status: after the 2009/2010 season |
Web links
- Zdeněk Vítek in the IBU database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vítek, Zdeněk |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vrchlabí , Czechoslovakia (today: Czech Republic ) |