The Czech Republic competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after splitting from the former Czechoslovakia. The Czech team consisted of 105 athletes, 63 men and 42 women, across twenty sports.
Czech Republic returned home from Rio de Janeiro with a total of 10 medals (1 gold, 2 silver, and 7 bronze), marking the country's second-most successful Olympics after a tally of 11 each achieved in Atlanta 1996 and London 2012. Three of the medals were awarded to the Czech squad in canoeing and tennis, while the rest to the competitors in judo, track and field, mountain biking, and rowing.
Among the medalists were 2014 world judo champion Luká? Krpálek, who captured the country's only gold at the Games in the men's half-heavyweight division (100 kg), and rower Ond?ej Synek, who managed to add a bronze to his Olympic career treasury of two silvers in the men's single sculls. Flatwater canoeist and two-time world champion Josef Dostál contributed two of the country's overall medals at the Games, picking up a silver in the K-1 1000 m, and a bronze as a member of the Czech crew for the second consecutive time in the kayak four. Despite witnessing her three-peat bid come to an end with a bronze at the Games, double Olympic champion Barbora ?potáková cemented her place in history as the first woman to score three medals in the javelin throw. Mountain biker Jaroslav Kulhavý closed out the nation's Olympic campaign by taking home the silver medal in the men's cross-country race, losing his title defense to Switzerland's Nino Schurter.
Video Czech Republic at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists
The following Czech competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded.
Maps Czech Republic at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Competitors
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