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Czech Republic at the 1998 Winter Olympics

The Czech Republic was represented at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan by the Czech Olympic Committee.

In total, 61 athletes including 48 men and 13 women represented the Czech Republic in nine different sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, nordic combined and ski jumping.

The Czech Republic won three medals at the games after Kateřina Neumannová claimed silver and bronze in the cross-country skiing and the men's team claimed gold in the ice hockey.

Competitors

In total, 61 athletes represented the Czech Republic at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan across nine different sports.

Medalists

The Czech Republic won a total of three medals at the games including one gold, one silver and one bronze.

Alpine skiing

In total, two Czech athletes participated in the alpine skiing events – Lucie Hrstková in the women's downhill, the women's super-G, the women's giant slalom, the women's slalom and the women's combined and Marcel Maxa in the men's giant slalom, the men's slalom and the men's combined.

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Biathlon

In total, eight Czech athletes participated in the biathlon events – Jiřína Pelcová, Petr Garabík, Eva Háková, Jiří Holubec, Kateřina Losmanová, Ivan Masařík, Irena Novotná, Zdeněk Vítek.

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<sup>1</sup> A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
<sup>2</sup> One minute added per missed target.

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Bobsleigh

In total, five Czech athletes participated in the bobsleigh events – Jiří Dzmura, Jan Kobián, Peter Kondrát, Pavel Polomský and Pavel Puškár.

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Cross-country skiing

In total, 10 Czech athletes participated in the cross-country skiing events – Lukáš Bauer, Lubomír Buchta, Kateřina Hanušová, Zuzana Kocumová, Martin Koukal, Jiří Magál, Petr Michl, Kateřina Neumannová, Jana Šaldová and Iveta Zelingerová-Fortová.

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Figure skating

In total, five Czech athletes participated in the figure skating events – Lenka Kulovaná in the women's singles, Kateřina Beránková and Otto Dlabola in the pairs and Kateřina Mrázová and Martin Šimeček in the ice dance.

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Freestyle skiing

In total, one Czech athlete participated in the freestyle skiing events – Aleš Valenta in the men's aerials.

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Ice hockey

In total, 21 Czech athletes participated in the ice hockey events – Josef Beránek, Jan Čaloun, Roman Čechmánek, Jiří Dopita, Roman Hamrlík, Dominik Hašek, Milan Hejduk, Milan Hnilička, Jaromír Jágr, František Kučera, Robert Lang, David Moravec, Pavel Patera, Libor Procházka, Martin Procházka, Robert Reichel, Martin Ručinský, Vladimír Růžička, Jiří Šlégr, Richard Šmehlík, Jaroslav Špaček, Martin Straka and Petr Svoboda in the men's competition.

After defeating Russia 1–0 in the gold medal match, the Czech Republic won the competition for the first time.

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Quarter-final

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Semi-final

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Gold medal match

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Nordic combined

In total, five Czech athletes participated in the Nordic combined events – Marek Fiurášek, Milan Kučera, Jan Matura, Ladislav Rygl and Petr Šmejc.

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Ski jumping

In total, four Czech athletes participated in the ski jumping events – Michal Doležal, František Jež, Jaroslav Sakala and Jakub Sucháček in the normal hill individual, the large hill individual and the large hill team.

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