Czech Republic at the 2026 Winter Paralympics

Czech Republic at the
2026 Winter Paralympics
Czech Republic at the; 2026 Winter Paralympics
	Flag of Czech Republic
IPC code	CZE
NPC	Czech Paralympic Committee
in Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; 6 March 2026 – 15 March 2026
Competitors	24 (22 men and 2 women) in 4 sports
Medals; Ranked 16th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 1 Total 6
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
	1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;
Other related appearances
	Czechoslovakia (1976–1992)

Czech Republic was represented at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which took place between 6–15 March 2026.^[1]

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Paťava	Para biathlon	Women's sprint pursuit, visually impaired	March 13
Silver	Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Paťava	Para biathlon	Women's sprint, visually impaired	March 7
Silver	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	Para biathlon	Women's individual, visually impaired	March 8
Silver	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	Para cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre classical, visually impaired	11 March
Silver	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	Para cross-country skiing	Women's 20 kilometre freestyle, visually impaired	15 March
Bronze	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	Para biathlon	Women's sprint pursuit, visually impaired	13 March

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Para biathlon	1	2	1	4
Para cross-country skiing	0	2	0	2
Total	1	4	1	6

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	7 March	0	1	0	1
Day 2	8 March	0	1	0	1
Day 3	9 March	0	0	0	0
Day 4	10 March	0	0	0	0
Day 5	11 March	0	1	0	1
Day 6	12 March	0	0	0	0
Day 7	13 March	1	0	1	2
Day 8	14 March	0	0	0	0
Day 9	15 March	0	1	0	1
Total		1	4	1	6

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	1	4	1	6
Male	0	0	0	0
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	1	4	1	6

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Para alpine skiing	4	0	4
Para biathlon	2	2	4
Para cross-country skiing	2	2	4
Para ice hockey	16	0	16
Total	22	2	24

Para alpine skiing

Athlete	Class	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Class	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Petr Drahoš	LW12–1	Men's super-G, sitting	N/a	DNF
		Men's giant slalom, sitting	1:20.97	21	1:24.04	19	2:45.01	19
		Men's slalom, sitting	58.06	17	54.38	17	1:52.44	16
		Men's super combined, sitting	1:27.84	19	53.56	15	2:21.40	15
Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Máčala	AS4	Men's giant slalom, visually impaired	1:32.64	16	1:31.05	14	3:03.69	14
Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Máčala	AS4	Men's slalom, visually impaired	1:12.24	13	1:04.83	13	2:17.07	13
Tadeáš Kříž Guide: Iva Křížová	AS3	Men's downhill, visually impaired	N/a	1:25.79	6
		Men's super-G, visually impaired	N/a	1:21.46	10
		Men's giant slalom, visually impaired	1:14.95	13	1:13.19	9	2:28.14	9
		Men's slalom, visually impaired	53.46	8	50.04	7	1:43.50	8
		Men's super combined, visually impaired	1:22.27	9	49.81	9	2:12.08	9
Tomáš Vaverka	LW9–2	Men's giant slalom, standing	1:17.21	24	1:16.57	23	2:33.78	23
Tomáš Vaverka	LW9–2	Men's slalom, standing	1:01.84	23	DNF

Para biathlon

Athlete	Class	Event	Qualification			Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Missed shots	Time	Rank	Missed shots	Time	Rank
Miroslav Motejzík	LW4	Men's individual, standing	N/a	4 (1+1+2+0)	49:26.4	19
Miroslav Motejzík	LW4	Men's sprint, standing	N/a	3 (0+3)	28:04.4	19
Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	NS1	Women's individual, visually impaired	N/a	1 (0+0+0+1)	36:43.9
		Women's sprint, visually impaired	N/a	0 (0+0)	21:06.2	4
		Women's sprint pursuit, visually impaired	3 (1+2)	12:17.1	2 Q	1 (0+1)	13:59.2
Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Paťava	NS2	Women's individual, visually impaired	N/a	6 (1+0+2+3)	42:30.8	7
		Women's sprint, visually impaired	N/a	0 (0+0)	20:20.5
		Women's sprint pursuit, visually impaired	1 (0+1)	11:47.8	1 Q	3 (2+1)	13:38.1

Para cross-country skiing

Athlete	Class	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Class	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Miroslav Motejzík	LW4	Sprint classical, standing	3:22.22	30	Did not advance
		10 km classical, standing	N/a	DNF
		20 km freestyle, standing	N/a	1:00:26.9	29
Matěj Škoda	LW8	Sprint classical, standing	2:59.22	28	Did not advance
		10 km classical, standing	N/a	32:07.3	13
		20 km freestyle, standing	N/a	52:25.2	23
Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek	NS1	Sprint classical, visually impaired	2:51.49	1 Q	3:31.8	3	DNQ
		10 km classical, visually impaired	N/a	31:59.1
		20 km freestyle, visually impaired	N/a	47:27.2

Relay

Athletes	Event	Time	Rank
Miroslav Motejzík Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Šrůtek Matěj Škoda Matěj Škoda	4 × 2.5km open relay	DNS

Para ice hockey

Summary

Key:

OT – Overtime
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Event	Group stage				Semifinal / Cl.	Final / BM / Pl.
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Czech Republic	Mixed tournament	Japan W 3–2	Slovakia W 8–1	Canada L 1–4	2 Q	United States L 1–6	China L 2–3	4

Roster

Head coach: Jakub Novotný

Martin Kudela
Petr Boček
Martin Žižlavský
Radek Zelinka
Theodor Pátek
Alex Ohar
David Vrubel
Pavel Kubeš
Václav Hečko
David Ondrák
Filip Veselý
Pavel Doležal
Michal Geier
Lukáš Kapko
Zdeněk Hábl
Patrik Sedláček

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	26	1	+25	9	Semifinals
2	Czechia	3	2	1	12	7	+5	6	Semifinals
3	Slovakia	3	1	2	6	17	−11	3	5–8th place semifinals
4	Japan	3	0	3	3	22	−19	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source: Milano Cortina 2026

7 March 2026
10:05

Czechia

3–2
(2–1, 1–1, 0–0)

Japan

PalaItalia, Milan
Attendance: 2,083

Game reference

Patrik Sedláček

Goalies

Wataru Horie

Referee:
Bobby Esposito
Linesmen:
Dylan Dauphinee
Tibor Fazekas

	0–1	06:14 – Niitsu (Ukai, Ito)
Zelinka (Hábl) – 08:54	1–1
Geier (Zelinka, Veselý) – 11:04	2–1
	2–2	20:09 – Ito (Matsushita)
Kapko (Geier) (PP) – 23:37	3–2

8 min

Penalties

10 min

30

Shots

4

9 March 2026
13:35

Czechia

8–1
(2–0, 4–0, 2–1)

Slovakia

PalaItalia, Milan
Attendance: 2,285

Game reference

Martin Kudela

Goalies

Eduard Lepáček

Referee:
Patrick Myers
Linesmen:
Marius Hermansen Oswold
Andreas Lunden

Veselý – 04:50	1–0
Žižlavský (Ohar) – 12:40	2–0
Žižlavský (Doležal, Zelinka) – 16:10	3–0
Veselý (Hečko, Žižlavský) – 20:05	4–0
Zelinka (Hečko, Veselý) – 23:15	5–0
Doležal (Veselý) – 26:39	6–0
	6–1	32:43 – Korman (Joppa, Ferenčík)
Zelinka (Pátek) – 35:59	7–1
Geier – 36:10	8–1

4 min

Penalties

4 min

30

Shots

9

10 March 2026
17:05

Canada

4–1
(0–0, 2–1, 2–0)

Czechia

PalaItalia, Milan
Attendance: 1,361

Game reference

Corbin Watson

Goalies

Patrik Sedláček

Referee:
Bobby Esposito
Linesmen:
Marius Hermansen Oswold
Tony Rundström

Dunn (McGregor, Dixon) (PP) – 19:46	1–0
Boily (Jacobs-Webb) (PP) – 27:35	2–0
McGregor (Hickey, Cozzolino) (PP) – 31:57	3–0
	3–1	33:48 – Hábl (Doležal, Zelinka) (PP)
Hickey (McGregor) (EN) – 44:50	4–1

12 min

Penalties

12 min

26

Shots

12

Semifinal

13 March 2026
14:35

United States

6–1
(1–1, 2–0, 3–0)

Czechia

PalaItalia, Milan
Attendance: 3,016

Game reference

Griffin LaMarre

Goalies

Patrik Sedláček

Referee:
Matthew Fergenbaum
Linesmen:
Dylan Dauphinee
Andreas Lunden

	0–1	05:08 – Geier (Kubeš, Kapko) (PP)
Farmer (Dodson, Eustace) – 10:26	1–1
Eustace (Farmer) – 19:59	2–1
Farmer (Eustace, Dodson) – 20:18	3–1
Pauls (Farmer, Grove) – 35:19	4–1
Farmer (Roybal, Pauls) – 37:52	5–1
Grove (Roybal, Farmer) (PP) – 38:49	6–1

4 min

Penalties

8 min

41

Shots

5

Bronze medal game

15 March 2026
12:05

China

3–2
(2–2, 0–0, 1–0)

Czechia

PalaItalia, Milan
Attendance: 3,962

Game reference

Ji Yanzhao

Goalies

Patrik Sedláček

Referee:
Patrick Myers
Linesmen:
Brendan Lewis
Andreas Lunden

	0–1	01:40 – Kubeš (Geier, Kapko)
	0–2	02:34 – Zelinka (Žižlavský, Doležal)
Tian (Shen) – 06:03	1–2
Wang Z. (Zhu, Zhang) – 08:05	2–2
Tian (Shen) – 30:18	3–2

8 min

Penalties

2 min

23

Shots

16

References

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Nations at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile El Salvador Haiti Mexico Puerto Rico United States
Asia	China Japan Kazakhstan Mongolia South Korea Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Iceland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
Withdrawn	Iran

Medallists

Competitors

Para alpine skiing

Para biathlon

Para cross-country skiing

Para ice hockey

See also

References