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Jakub Dudycha
Czech athlete (born 2005) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jakub Dudycha (born 5 September 2005) is a Czech middle distance runner. He is Czech national record holder over 800 metres. He won Czech national titles in 2023 and 2024.[1]
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Dudycha is from Vysoké Mýto. In 2022, he won the 800m at 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem and reached the semi-finals of the Junior World Championships in Cali, Colombia. He set a personal best time of 1:48.58 at the Golden Spike event in Ostrava in June 2022.[2][3]
He won the Czech Athletics Championships in Tábor in July 2023 over 800 metres.[4] He won the European Athletics U20 Championships 800 metres race in Jerusalem, Israel, in August 2023. The following month, Dudycha broke the Czech junior record for 800 meters in Zagreb, running 1:45.84.[5]
In Lyon, in February 2024, he improved his own junior indoor Czech record in the 800 meters with a time of 1:47.12.[6]
He was selected for the European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, in 2024 and at the age of 18 years-old, ran a personal best time of 1:44.89 in the qualification heats, the third fastest time in Czech history.[7] That month, he set a senior national record of 1:44.82 in Bydgoszcz.[8] Later that month he retained his Czech national title.[9] He competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[10]
He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn but did not reach the semi-finals.[11][12] He was subsequently selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in March 2025, where he qualified for the semi-finals but did not progress into the final.[13][14] He set a new personal best for the 800 metres when he ran 1:44.48 at the Golden Spike Ostrava on 24 June.[15] Later that month, he ran at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid, placing fourth in the 800 metres in the first division.[16]
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