Michal Doležal (ski jumper)
Michal Dolezal (born 11 March 1978 in Jablonec ) is a former Czech ski jumper and today's ski jumping coach.
Career
Dolezal started at the Ski Flying World Championships 1996 in Kulm, where he was 35th, for the first time at an international jump competition. A short time later, in early March 1996, he was in Harrachov, also in a ski flying, win his first World Cup points. Afterwards he appeared regularly on the World Cup. In 1998, he took in Oberstdorf again at the Ski Flying World Championships, where he was again 35. For it held 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, he could set up his first result in the top ten at an international competition with an eighth place on the large hill. In the winter of 1998/99 he started only a few World Cups, but participated in the 1999 Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau part. The following winter 1999/2000 he was able to repeatedly achieve World Cup points, such as two in ten places at the Four Hills Tournament in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Innsbruck. With a 27th place in the World Cup Ranking this season was his most successful. When held in Vikersund Ski Flying World Championships in February 2000, he took a 32nd place. Also successful he participated in the Summer Grand Prix in 2000, and was on 12 August achieve his best result at a world-class competition with a fifth place in Villach. In the following seasons, his performances became increasingly worse and he only rarely made it into the second round. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001, he was 38th on the normal hill and missed on the big hill than 31 the second round just barely. In November 2001, he raced in Kuusamo first time in the second-class Continental. Although he neither there, nor found his form in the next World Cup Jumping, he took part in Salt Lake City at the 2002 Winter Olympics. There he could not qualify on the large hill for the race and was 50th on the normal hill and thus last. Then Dolezal joined mostly to the Continental and got only sporadically inserts at the World Cup and Grand Prix competitions. Nevertheless, he was nominated for the 2003 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, where he took a 39th place on the normal hill. Until his career end of 2007, he continued to participate in the Continental Cup, but could rarely get good results.