Top-level Sport at CU ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Charles University is proud to have many alumni who have achieved excellent results repres Republic in university competitions, World and European Championships, and the Olympic Gam Charles University is all about enjoyment and fair play. These guiding principles never ch the very highest level of performance. Unlike some universities (especially in the USA), C does not select applicants on the basis of their sporting ability. Nevertheless, there are performing sportsmen and women at our University, and we are very proud of their achieveme provide the right conditions enabling these talented students to pursue their sporting amb their academic commitments (though of course academic commitments always have priority). ****************************************************************************************** * Professional Athletes from Our Faculties ****************************************************************************************** Many staff members at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport are former professional Current part-time students of the Faculty include several Czech internationals: David Bake cross – 3rd place in the European Cup), Kateřina Novotná (short track speed skating – 6th 500 m event at the 2006 Turin Olympics, gold medallist in 2010 European Championship in Dr Verner (figure skating – 2008 European Champion, 2011 European Championships bronze medall Czech Champion). The Faculty’s full-time students currently include Lenka Bartáková (baske Baumrtová (swimming - Czech record holder), Jaromír Ježek (judo), Kristýna Kolocová (volle Radoň (canoeing), and David Svoboda (modern pentathlon, 2012 Olympic Champion). Part-time represented their country include Natálie Dianová (modern pentathlon), Miroslava Knapková rowing, 2012 Olympic Champion), Pavel Petřikov (judo) and Vítězslav Veselý (javelin, 2012 Champion). Several prominent athletes are students at the Faculty of Law, and some of them have repre mater in the Czech Academic Games. These exceptional talents include Viktor Pak and Peter volleyball – 1st place in the 2009 Czech Academic Games), Kamila Hebelková and Tereza Goda – European Universities Games), Václav Smetana (badminton – 1st place in the 2009 Czech Ac badminton doubles), Lukáš Dušek (judo – 1st place in the 2009 Czech Academic Games), Dagma (karate – regular medal-winner at the 2009–2011 Czech Academic Games, Junior World Champio 2009, 2nd place in the 2011 European Universities Games), Anna Zástěrová (wild water kayak the Czech Academic Championship and winner of all domestic 2011 competitions, 2nd – 10th p and European Championships and the World Cup). Students at the Second Faculty of Medicine are well aware of the importance of physical fi in the operating theatre or at the doctor’s surgery. Among the future doctors, physiothera and laboratory staff who have excelled in recent sporting competitions are Karel Musil (ju in the 2010 Czech Championships in the 66 weight class), Jiří Bomer (representing the Czec gymnastics), Tereza Cihlářová (World Champion 2009, 2010 and 2011 in team aerobics, severa and European Champion), Kryštof Chaloupek (representing the Czech Republic in curling, bro the 25th Winter World University Games), the middle distance runner Zuzana Krchová, the ba Eliška Maixnerová (International Champion Switzerland 2006, silver medallist in badminton gold medallist 2010 and 2011 at the Czech Academic Games), and Michal Votava (rowing, Czec Champion in men’s fours). The Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové is the alma mater of Eva Ornstová, who came 1st canoeing (K1 Women) at the last Czech Academic Games. That was her second success at the G already won the same event in 2009. Among the many excellent athletes at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics are Jonáš Vojt (undergraduate student of financial mathematics, 2011 cross-country triathlon European U23 Šárka Hezoučká (graduate student of financial mathematics, multiple Czech Academic Champio shot-put and discus), Jindřiška Vaněčková (undergraduate student of general mathematics, C Champion in archery), Kristina Hostáková (undergraduate student of mathematical methods in security, member of Hradec Králové Golf Club, fifth place in the International Women’s Cha Republic 2009, International Champion Hungary 2008). One of the most prominent sports in t of outstanding achievements at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics is volleyball, which tradition and sustained popularity among the Faculty’s students. In 1962 a volleyball club was the founder member of the Slavia MFF Praha sports club. At present the volleyball sect members, and its seven men’s teams and four women’s teams make it the largest adult-level in the Czech Republic. Charles University’s Faculty of Education has a rich sporting tradition thanks to the prom played by sport at the Faculty. Its students include Jakub Tesárek (European Champion and Champion in karate kata shotokan, 2009 and 2011), the runner Petra Kubešová (several gold in the Czech Junior and Women’s Championships in middle and long distance events), the mid runner Dana Šatrová (this year’s Czech Champion in the 1500 m event), the long jump and tr specialist Lucie Uhlířová (eight times medallist in the Czech Women’s Championship, U22 Ch Team Championship), floorballers Dominika Šteglová, Jana Vojáčková and Lucie Szotkowská (r Czech Republic, bronze medallists in the 2011 World Championships). One of the Faculty’s t Dr. Irena Svobodová (Fleissnerová), has won 73 Czech championships in various swimming dis a gold medallist at the 1979 World University Games in Mexico. The Faculty of Social Sciences is represented by a journalism student Anna Kulíšková, a me 2010 Vancouver and 2006 Turin Paralympics and a holder of crystal globes in downhill and s