Country Czechoslovakia Indiv. podiums 27 Full name Pavel Ploc Name Pavel Ploc | Seasons 1982–1992 Height 1.75 m Individual wins 10 Total podiums 27 | |
 | ||
Born 15 June 1964 (age 59)
Jilemnice, Czechoslovakia ( 1964-06-15 ) Olympic medals Ski Jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics - Large Hill Similar People Jiri Malec, Matti Nykanen, Jens Weisflog | ||
Pavel Ploc 181.0 m Harrachov 1983 (Czech Commentary)
Pavel Ploc ( [ˈpavɛl ˈplots], born 15 June 1964) is a Czech former ski jumper who competed for Czechoslovakia, winning two Olympic medals.
Contents
Career
At the Winter Olympics, he earned a silver in the individual normal hill in 1988 and a bronze in the individual large hill in 1984. Ploc also earned two bronze medals in the Team large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1984, 1989). He also won two medals at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships with a silver in 1983 and a bronze in 1985.
Ploc finished his active ski jumping career in 1992 and in 1996 opened Bed&Breakfast in Harrachov, Czech Republic. From 1996 to 2002 he was an elected member of the Harrachov town council. He unsuccessfully run for a seat in the Czech Parliament in 2002 but won that seat in 2006 and became a member of the lower chamber of the Czech Parliament for the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD).
