The Czech Republic competed at the 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, from January 12 to January 22, 2023. This was the Czech Republic's sixteenth appearance at the FISU Winter World University Games, having competed at every Games since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
The team won 12 medals, the best result at the FISU Winter World University Games since 2013 and twice the number of the previous games in Krasnoyarsk.
The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.
In alpine skiing, the Czech team recorded four medals, including three golds, thanks to Jan Zabystà Âan, who tied for fourth place among the multi-medalists of the games.
Tereza Jandová, Kristýna Otcovská and Jakub Kocián added four medals together to the tally of the Czech team.
Cross country skiers finished several times close to the medal standings, especially in the men's relay.
After a good start beating Brazil, the Czech men failed to win any other game and finished ninth.
Two Czech figure skaters participated in Lake Placid, both advancing to the free skating.
After finishing without medals in the slopestyle final, both Jan Ferbr and VojtÃÂch Bà Âeský advanced to the finals of the big air event. Bà Âeský performed a double cork 1080 and a switch 1080 and won bronze medal, with Ferbr finishing fifth. Klára Kaà ¡parová, one of the three athletes from the Brno University of Technology at the games, finished fourth as she failed to start well and did not find a way to pass Canada's Elizabeth Anne Filiatrault.
The bronze for the Czech women was the first FISU World University Games ice hockey medal for Czechia in 18 years. The men's team was close to the semifinals after winning the first three games, but defeats to Canada and Ukraine at the end of the group stopped them.
In Nordic combined, MatÃÂj Fardhons started the first race with a great ski jumping round. Behind Japan's Sakutaro Kobayashi, who was by far unbeatable in Lake Placid, he was in third place, but in the cross country he fell down to the seventh place. In the second race, Fadrhons did not finish the mass start cross country round.
With two athletes, both recovering from medical issues, Czech team did not record prominent results in short track speed skating.
The only Czech ski jumper Frantià ¡ek HolÃÂk attempted to finish in the top ten, but did not succeed.
Jakub à ½erava and Bruno Tatarko advanced to the final stages of the men's snowboard cross event, with à ½erava winning silver losing only to France's Benjamin Gattaz.
Kristián Salaàperformed great in both his events qualifications, but failed to prevail in the finals, despite having a great form as he confirmed soon after at the world championships, where he finished fifth in big air.
Veronika Antoà ¡ová won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres race, while Zuzana Kurà ¡ová's results were less satisfactory.