Jiří Jedlička, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jiří Jedlička

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1987

Place of Birth: Pardubice, Pardubice Region, Czech Republic

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Jiří Jedlička

  • Jirí Jedlicka (born February 5, 1987) is a Czech former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
  • He represented his nation Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has owned multiple Czech championship titles and national records in both the 100 and 200 m breaststroke.
  • Jedlicka was also a member of Plavecky Areal Swimming Club in Pardubice, under the tutelage of his personal coach Jaroslav Strnad.Jedlicka competed for the Czech Republic in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • He posted a sterling 1:01.46 to hack 0.04 seconds off the Czech record, set by Daniel Malek (1:01.50) in 2000, and sneak under the FINA A-cut (1:01.57) by about a tenth of a second for the seventh seed headed into the 100 m breaststroke final at the European Championships three months earlier in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • In his first event, 100 m breaststroke, Jedlicka held off the hard-charging Spaniards Melquíades Álvarez and Borja Iradier to hit the wall in heat six with a fifth-place time and twenty-ninth overall in 1:01.56.
  • Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Jedlicka swam well through the 150-metre lap in heat three, but faded the closing stretch that allowed his Spanish rival Álvarez to pass him by 3.2 seconds, touching the fourth spot and thirty-ninth overall in 2:15.79.

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