Václav Chalupa
Václav Chalupa ( born December 7, 1967 in Jindřichův Hradec ) is a former Czech rower who took part in six Olympic Games three times and reached the final.
Career
His father Václav Chalupa senior had been in 1960 and 1964 as a rower at the Olympic Games at the start. Chalupa junior was first trained by his father and from 1989 to 2004 by two-time Olympic medalist Zdeněk Pecka. At his first Olympic participation in 1988 in Seoul Chalupa started in quadruple sculls, finishing in eleventh place. 1990 Chalupas began career in one with a victory at the World Cup in San Diego. The World Rowing Championships 1990 Chalupa received the silver medal behind the then antretenden nor the Soviet Union Estonia Jüri Jaanson. 1991 followed two World Cup victories on Lake Piediluco and in Lucerne, at the World Championships in Vienna won the German Thomas Long before Chalupa. Even a year later at the 1992 Olympics came long before Chalupa to the finish.
From 1993 Chalupa no longer went to for Czechoslovakia, but for the Czech Republic. He won three World Cup regattas, Duisburg, Tampere and Lucerne, at the World Championships he finished second behind the Canadian Derek Porter. After four silver medals in a row during the season climax Chalupa 1994 missed the first time a medal at the World Championships and finished fifth. In 1995, Slovenia's Iztok Čop before Jüri Jaanson, Chalupa received his first bronze medal. 1996 Chalupa missed the entire World Cup season, in the Olympics he finished fifth.
After a fifth place finish at the World Rowing Championships in 1997 Chalupa 1998 again received the bronze medal in front of him and the New Zealander Rob Waddell Xeno Müller were from Switzerland; 1999 was followed by a fourth place finish. In Munich in 2000 won Chalupa after six years at a World Cup regatta. At the Olympic Games in Sydney he missed the finals and did not occur in the B-final. That Chalupa still belonged to the world-class, he proved by winning World Cup 2001 bronze behind Norwegian Olaf Tufte and Iztok Čop. In 2002 and 2003 he missed fourth each just under the medal places. 2004 won Chalupa last time a World Cup race in one, because after the fifth place at the Olympic Games in Athens, he was replaced Ondřej Synek in one from.
2005 and 2006 Chalupa sat in the Czech sculls and also reached the World Cup finals respectively. In 2007 he rowed in the double sculls and after a disappointing 16th place at the World Championships in Munich, he competed at the European Championships in eighth and won here his only international title. In 2008, Chalupa appeared as sweep rowers, with Jakub Makovička he finished in a two coxless eighth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Even in his last race 2009 season started with Chalupa Makovička in two without, at the World Championships in Poznan they finished tenth place; together with coxswain Oldrich Hejdušek they were also in the non-Olympic boat class pairs with coxswain and won the silver medal behind the two from the United States.
2012 received from the World Rowing Federation FISA Chalupa the Thomas Keller Medal.