Stanislav Ježek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stanislav Ježek

Czech canoeist, olympionic and water slalomist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1976

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: canoeist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Stanislav Ježek (Czech pronunciation: ['sta??slaf 'j???k]; born 21 November 1976 in Prague) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 1994. He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C1 team: 2002), a silver (C1 team: 2006), and six bronzes (C1: 2006, C1 team: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011).He is the overall World Cup champion in C1 from 1999 and 2011.
He also won a total of 7 medals at the European Championships (1 gold, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes).Ježek also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In the C1 event, he finished fourth in the qualification round, thus progressing to the semifinals.
In the semifinals he finished second, managing to reach the top eight and the final round.
In the final he finished fifth.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he repeated his 5th position in the C1 event.
He also started in the C2 event with Vavrinec Hradilek where they finished 9th after being eliminated in the semifinals.