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Petr Meindlschmid
Czech athlete (born 2006 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Petr Meindlschmid (born 15 January 2006) is a Czech long jumper. In 2024, he became Czech national champion at the Czech Athletics Championships at the age of 18 years-old. That summer, he was a finalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.
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Early life
Petr Meindlschmid was born on 15 January 2006 in Uherské Hradiště.[1] He was a footballer at youth level, playing for 1. FC Slovácko and the Czech national under-16 football team.[2][3]
Career
He won gold in the long jump at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[4] He also won gold in the long jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia.[5][6] However, he broke his hand after falling during the relay handover and missed the European Junior Championships in Jerusalem that summer.[7]
In June 2024, he won the long jump at the Josef Odlozil Memorial event in Prague with a jump of 7.92 metres.[8] Later that month he finished seventh in the final of the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, jumping a new Czech junior record of 8.03 metres, despite being the youngest competitor in the field.[9][10] In June 2024, he won the Czech U20 long jump title in Ostrava,[11] and the Czech senior national title in Zlín.[12] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, where he jumped 6.97 metres but did not progress to the final.[13]
In January 2025, he won the men’s long jump at the Otrokovice Jump 2025, part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger, clinching victory with a 7.70 metres jump with the final jump of the competition.[14]
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