Slovakia at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Slovakia at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | SVK |
NOC | Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee |
Website | www |
in Tokyo, Japan 23 July 2021 – 8 August 2021 | |
Competitors | 41 in 13 sports |
Flag bearers (opening) | Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková Matej Beňuš |
Flag bearer (closing) | Danka Barteková |
Medals Ranked 50th |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Other related appearances | |
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Slovakia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after gaining its independence from the former Czechoslovakia.
Medalists
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Competitors
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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
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Archery
[edit]One Slovak archer booked an Olympic place in the women's individual recurve by finishing in the top four at the 2021 European Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[2]
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Rank | ||
Denisa Baránková | Women's individual | 655 | 12 | ![]() L 4–6 |
Did not advance |
Athletics
[edit]Slovak athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[3][4]
- Key
- Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
- Q = Qualified for the next round
- q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
- NR = National record
- N/A = Round not applicable for the event
- Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
- Track & road events
- Men
Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | ||||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Ján Volko | 100 m | Bye | 10.40 | 7 | Did not advance | ||||
200 m | 21.21 | 5 | — | Did not advance | |||||
Miroslav Úradník | 20 km walk | — | 1:29:25 | 41 | |||||
Michal Morvay | 50 km walk | — | 4:15:22 | 41 | |||||
Matej Tóth | 3:56:23 | 14 |
- Women
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Gabriela Gajanová | 800 m | 2:01.41 | 7 | Did not advance | |||
Emma Zapletalová | 400 m hurdles | 55.00 | 6 q | 55.79 | 6 | Did not advance | |
Mária Czaková | 20 km walk | — | 1:41:29 | 45 |
- Field events
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||
Marcel Lomnický | Men's hammer throw | 72.52 | 24 | Did not advance | |
Martina Hrašnová | Women's hammer throw | 66.63 | 25 | Did not advance |
Badminton
[edit]Slovakia entered one badminton player into the Olympic tournament, marking the country's return to the sport for the first time since London 2012. Martina Repiská was automatically selected among the top 40 individual shuttlers in the women's singles based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings of June 15, 2021.[5]
Athlete | Event | Group stage | Elimination | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |||
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Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Rank | Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Rank | ||
Martina Repiská | Women's singles | ![]() W (21–19, 21–12) |
![]() L (18–21, 16–21) |
2 | Did not advance |
Boxing
[edit]Slovakia entered one male boxer into the Olympic tournament for the first time since Atlanta 1996. Andrej Csemez secured a spot in the men's middleweight division by scoring a quarterfinal victory at the 2020 European Qualification Tournament in Villebon-sur-Yvette, France.[6]
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | ||
Andrej Csemez | Men's middleweight | ![]() W 4–0 |
![]() L 0–5 |
Did not advance |
Canoeing
[edit]Slalom
[edit]Slovak canoeists qualified one boat for each of the following classes through the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain and the 2021 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Ivrea, Italy.[7][8]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Semifinal | Final | |||||||
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Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Best | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Matej Beňuš | Men's C-1 | 99.61 | 2 | 96.89 | 1 | 96.89 | 1 Q | 106.40 | 9 Q | 105.60 | 6 |
Jakub Grigar | Men's K-1 | 94.37 | 9 | 92.38 | 8 | 92.38 | 8 Q | 96.27 | 4 Q | 94.85 | ![]() |
Monika Škáchová | Women's C-1 | 125.65 | 16 | 116.85 | 11 | 116.85 | 12 Q | 124.87 | 10 Q | 129.39 | 9 |
Eliška Mintálová | Women's K-1 | 107.67 | 3 | 117.55 | 18 | 107.67 | 8 Q | 107.18 | 2 Q | 158.36 | 9 |
Sprint
[edit]Slovak canoeists qualified two boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.[9]
Athlete | Event | Heats | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Peter Gelle | Men's K-1 1000 m | 3:42.131 | 2 SF | Bye | 3:28.255 | 7 FB | 3:28.240 | 14 | |
Samuel Baláž Adam Botek |
Men's K-2 1000 m | 3:13.982 | 3 QF | 3:11.458 | 2 SF | 3:20.917 | 6 FB | 3:21.087 | 10 |
Samuel Baláž Adam Botek Denis Myšák Erik Vlček |
Men's K-4 500 m | 1:21.807 | 2 SF | — | 1:23.799 | 2 FA | 1:23.534 | ![]() |
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)
Cycling
[edit]Road
[edit]Slovakia entered two riders to compete in the men's Olympic road race, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) in the UCI World Ranking.[10]
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Lukáš Kubiš | Men's road race | Did not finish | |
Men's time trial | 1:06:25.20 | 37 | |
Juraj Sagan | Men's road race | Did not finish |
Golf
[edit]Slovakia entered one golfer for the first time into the Olympic tournament. South African-born Rory Sabbatini (world no. 167) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's event based on the IGF World Rankings.[11]
Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Total | ||
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Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Par | Rank | ||
Rory Sabbatini | Men's | 69 | 67 | 70 | 61 | 267 | −17 | ![]() |
Gymnastics
[edit]Artistic
[edit]Slovakia entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Barbora Mokošová booked a spot in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing nineteenth out of the twenty gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.[12]
- Women
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||
V | UB | BB | F | V | UB | BB | F | ||||||
Barbora Mokošová | All-around | 13.333 | 13.333 | 11.700 | 12.833 | 51.199 | 52 | Did not advance |
Shooting
[edit]Slovak shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.[13]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Patrik Jány | Men's 10 m air rifle | 630.5 | 4 Q | 143.7 | 7 |
Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1172 | 13 | Did not advance | ||
Juraj Tužinský | Men's 10 m air pistol | 570 | 27 | Did not advance | |
Erik Varga | Men's trap | 122 | 11 | Did not advance | |
Danka Barteková | Women's skeet | 118 | 13 | Did not advance | |
Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková | Women's trap | 125 WR | 1 Q | 43 OR | ![]() |
Marián Kovačócy Jana Špotáková |
Mixed trap team | 144 | 8 | Did not advance | |
Erik Varga Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková |
146 | 3 Q | 42 | 4 |
Swimming
[edit]Slovakia received a universality invitation from FINA to send two top-ranked swimmers (one per gender) in their respective individual events to the Olympics, based on the FINA Points System of June 28, 2021.[14]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Richard Nagy | Men's 200 m butterfly | 2:01.91 | 37 | Did not advance | |||
Men's 400 m individual medley | 4:18.29 | 23 | — | Did not advance | |||
Andrea Podmaníková | Women's 100 m breaststroke | 1:08.36 | 28 | Did not advance | |||
Women's 200 m breaststroke | 2:29.56 | 30 | Did not advance |
Table tennis
[edit]Slovakia entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Rio 2016 Olympian Wang Yang scored a third-match final triumph to book one of the four available places in the men's singles at the 2021 ITTF World Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.[15]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||||
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Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | |||||
Wang Yang | Men's singles | Bye | ![]() W 4–0 |
![]() L 0–4 |
Did not advance | ||||||||
Barbora Balážová | Women's singles | Bye | ![]() L 0–4 |
Did not advance | |||||||||
Ľubomír Pištej Barbora Balážová |
Mixed doubles | — | ![]() Szőcs (ROU) L 1–4 |
Did not advance |
Tennis
[edit]Slovakia entered three tennis players into the Olympic tournament. Norbert Gombos (world no. 89) qualified directly as one of the top 56 eligible players in the men's singles based on the ATP World Rankings of June 13, 2021, with Filip Polášek and Lukáš Klein joining him on the roster to compete in the men's doubles.[16]
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Opposition Score |
Rank | ||
Norbert Gombos | Men's singles | ![]() L 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 2–6 |
Did not advance | |||||
Lukáš Klein | ![]() L 7–5, 3–6, 6–7(4–7) |
Did not advance | ||||||
Lukáš Klein Filip Polášek |
Men's doubles | — | ![]() Medvedev (ROC) W 7–5, 6–4 |
![]() Sandgren (USA) L 7–6(7–2), 2–6, [5–10] |
Did not advance |
Wrestling
[edit]For the first time since 2008, Slovakia qualified one wrestler for the men's freestyle 86 kg into the Olympic competition, by progressing to the top two finals at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.[17]
Key:
- VT (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by fall.
- VB (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by injury (VF for forfeit, VA for withdrawal or disqualification)
- PP (ranking points: 3–1 or 1–3) – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
- PO (ranking points: 3–0 or 0–3) – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
- ST (ranking points: 4–0 or 0–4) – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
- SP (ranking points: 4–1 or 1–4) – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
- Freestyle
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Opposition Result |
Rank | ||
Boris Makojev | Men's −86 kg | ![]() L 0–3 PO |
Did not advance | 14 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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- ^ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "IAAF Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Tokyo 2020 Badminton Qualifiers Announced". Badminton World Federation. 5 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Boxing Qualifier for Tokyo 2020: 4 June 2021. As It Happened". Olympics. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Olympic quota places take shape after first day of slalom heats". International Canoe Federation. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ "Lazkano and Gargaud Chanut crowned European champions". International Canoe Federation. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ "First round of Olympic canoe sprint quotas allocated". International Canoe Federation. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". UCI. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ "Four Americans headed to Tokyo as Olympic qualifying wraps after U.S. Open". Golf Channel. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019: Day 2 - as it happened". Olympic Channel. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ "Quota Places by Nation and Number". www.issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Slovenskú výpravu do Tokia rozšíria plavci Richard Nagy a Andrea Podmaníková" [Swimmers Richard Nagy and Andrea Podmaníková join the Slovak roster for Tokyo] (in Slovak). Sport.sk. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Daish, Simon (16 March 2021). "Bence Majoros joins list of Tokyo 2020 qualifiers with knock-out final victory". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
- ^ "ITF announces entries for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games". International Tennis Federation. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ Marantz, Ken (6 May 2021). "Russia Completes Olympic Freestyle Lineup as Kozyrev Qualifies at 125kg; US falls short". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 6 May 2021.