Jiří Pták, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jiří Pták

Czechoslovak rower

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1946

Place of Birth: Děčín, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic

Profession: coxswain

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jirí Pták (born 24 March 1946 in Decín, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech rowing coxswain who competed for Czechoslovakia at six Olympic Games between 1968 and 1992 (except the 1984 Olympics, boycotted by the Eastern Bloc countries).He was the first rower to compete at six Olympics.
He was the third rower, after Briton Jack Beresford and Soviet Yuriy Lorentsson, to compete at five Olympics.
(From 1896 to 2008, 22 rowers have competed at five Olympics and 6 at six Olympics.) His best performance was fourth in the coxed eight at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, when his team lost out on bronze by 1.09 seconds.