The Achievements of Czech and Czechoslovak Athletes in the Olympic Games (1896-2004)

V ANGLIČTINĚ The achievements ofczech and czechoslovak athletes at Olympic Games from 1896- 2004 Introduction: The athletics has always been considered as the queen of olympic sports. This sport branch has a long history and accomplished to train up many of successful athletes, who represented the czech countries at modem Olympic Garnes. This historical study is devoted to the athletes placed to 6th place at the Garnes and also evaluates the reached achievements. Objective: To find out all the czech and czechoslovak athletes who has placed to 6th place and verify the values of reached achievements. To analyse achievements of our olympic participation according to different aspects. Method: We charted the participation and achievements from the archive of the Czech Olympic Comrnittee and from encyclopedia of Olympic Garnes. We decided to the following way of awarding points: 1st place - 6 points, 2nd place - 5 points, 3rd place - 4 points, 4th place - 3 points, 5th place - 2 points, 6th place - 1 point. Results: The results of our study suggest that our athlete gained 32 medals all together, the most successful Olympic Garnes for our athletics were in Helsinki 1952 according to medal score (5 medals) and points given for all performances placed to the 6th place. The most successful Garnes for..