Václav Korunka
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's cross-country skiing | ||
Representing Czechoslovakia | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Calgary | 4 x 10 km | |
World Championships | ||
1989 Lahti | 4 x 10 km |
Václav Korunka (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈkoruŋka]; born December 25, 1965 in Jilemnice) is a former Czech cross-country skier who raced from 1988 to 1999. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary while his best individual Winter Olympics finish was a 13th in the 50 km event in 1992.
Korunka also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. His best individual finish at the Nordic skiing World Championships was an 8th in the 15 km event in those same championships.
Korunka won three FIS races in his career as well.
External links
- Vaclav Korunka at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Olympic 4 x 10 km relay results: 1936-2002 (in Italian)
- Václav Korunka at Olympics.com
- Václav Korunka at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Czech male cross-country skiers
- Czechoslovak male cross-country skiers
- Living people
- Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Czechoslovakia
- Olympic cross-country skiers of the Czech Republic
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
- Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- People from Jilemnice
- Czechoslovak Olympic medalist stubs
- Czech Republic cross-country skiing biography stubs