Lukáš Klíma (curler)

Lukáš Klíma (born 19 February 1991) is a Czech curler.

Lukáš Klíma
Curler
Born	(1991-02-19) 19 February 1991 (age 34) Prague,[1] Czechoslovakia
Team
Curling club	CC Zbraslav, Zbraslav, CZE
Skip	Lukáš Klíma
Third	Marek Černovský
Second	Martin Jurík
Lead	Lukáš Klípa
Alternate	Radek Boháč
Curling career
Member Association	Czech Republic
World Championship appearances	5 (2015, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
European Championship appearances	8 (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Medal record Men's Curling Representing  Czech Republic Winter Universiade 2011 Erzurum

Career

Juniors

Klíma skipped the Czech junior team at two World Junior Curling Championships. At the 2011 World Junior Curling Championships he led teammates Marek Cernovsky, Samuel Mokris and Karel Klima to a 9th-place finish (2-8 record). At the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships, he led Cernovsky, Jan Zelingr and Mokris to an 8th-place finish (2-7 record). The highlight of his junior career came at the 2011 Winter Universiade. There, he led his team of Jiri Candra, Tomáš Paul and David Jirounek to a bronze medal. After posting a 6-3 round robin record, the team beat Canada in a tie breaker, then lost to Korea in the semifinal, before beating Great Britain to claim the bronze. Klíma skipped the Czech Republic again at the 2013 Winter Universiade, but his team had less success, finishing 7th with a 3-6 record. Klíma attended Charles University in Prague.^[2] Also during his junior career, Klíma played in the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Klíma and partner Petra Vinsova finished in 16th.

Men's

After juniors, Klíma joined the Jiří Snítil rink at third position. The team played at the 2014 European Curling Championships, finishing 5th.

Klíma returned to world-level curling as the skip of the Czech team alongside Marek Černovský, Martin Jurík, and Lukáš Klípa at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship. There, the team finished with a 5–7 record. The team played at the 2022 European Curling Championships, where they finished the event with a 3–6 record, good enough to qualify the country for the 2023 World Men's Curling Championship.^[3] The team then went on to win the 2023 Czech Men's Curling Championship, qualifying the team to represent the Czech Republic at the 2023 World Men's Curling Championship, where they finished with a 3–9 record, and 10th overall.^[4][5]The team played in the 2023 European Curling Championships. There, the team finished with a disappointing 2–7 record,^[6] however, the result was good enough to qualify again for the 2024 World Men's Curling Championship. At the 2024 Worlds, the rink improved and went 4–8, finishing 9th.^[7]

Klíma and the Czech team would continue to improve during the 2024-25 curling season, and coached by former world champion Craig Savill, the team would again qualify for the 2025 World Men's Curling Championship. At the 2025 World's the team went 6–6 in the round robin, including wins over the current #1 ranked ranked team in the world, Scotland's Bruce Mouat, and the current European Champions, Germany's Marc Muskatewitz. This result would also tie the all-time highest placement for a Czech team at the worlds, finishing in 7th place. This strong showing earned the Czech Republic a direct berth to the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Klíma is employed as an attorney and lives in Prague.^[1]

In 2023, he married fellow curler Petra Vinšová and she changed her surname to "Klímová".^[8]