Czech Republic at the 2023 Winter World University Games

The Czech Republic competed at the 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, from January 12 to January 22, 2023. This was be the Czech Republic's sixteenth appearance at the FISU Winter World University Games, having competed at every Games since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

The team won 12 medals, the best result at the FISU Winter World University Games since 2013 and twice the number of the previous games in Krasnoyarsk.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Alpine skiing
In alpine skiing, the Czech team recorded four medals, including three golds, thanks to Jan Zabystřan, who tied for fourth place among the multi-medalists of the games.
 * Men


 * Women


 * Mixed

Biathlon
Tereza Jandová, Kristýna Otcovská and Jakub Kocián added four medals together to the tally of the Czech team.
 * Men


 * Women


 * Mixed

Cross-country skiing
Cross country skiers finished several times close to the medal standings, especially in the men's relay.


 * Men


 * Women


 * Mixed

Curling
After a good start beating Brazil, the Czech men failed to win any other game and finished ninth.


 * Summary

Figure skating
Two Czech figure skaters participated in Lake Placid, both advancing to the free skating.

Freestyle skiing
After finishing without medals in the slopestyle final, both Jan Ferbr and Vojtěch Břeský advanced to the finals of the big air event. Břeský performed a double cork 1080 and a switch 1080 and won bronze medal, with Ferbr finishing fifth. Klára Kašparová, one of the three athletes from the Brno University of Technology at the games, finished fourth as she failed to start well and did not find a way to pass Canada's Elizabeth Anne Filiatrault.


 * Ski cross


 * Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air

Ice hockey
The bronze for the Czech women was the first FISU World University Games ice hockey medal for Czechia in 18 years. The men's team was close to the semifinals after winning the first three games, but defeats to Canada and Ukraine at the end of the group stopped them.

Men's tournament

 * Roster
 * Goalkeepers: 1 Daniel Vacek, 2 Marek Štipčák, 3 Michal Kořének
 * Defenders: 6 Patrik Vašíček, 9 Tomáš Hajič, 10 Štěpán Kučera, 14 Dominik Ficek, 21 Ondřej Baláž, 22 Tomáš Duda, 27 Jakub Kynčl, 29 Tomáš Hanák
 * Forwards: 4 Matěj Novák, 8 Josef Hasman, 12 Patrik Tarnoczy, 13 Tomáš Pšenička, 15 Lukáš Prášek, 17 Štěpán Turek, 18 Vojtěch Komárek, 19 Matěj Mach, 20 Dominik Arnošt, 24 Milan Dančišin, 25 Jakub Wojnar, 26 Tomáš Koblížek
 * Coach: Ondřej Kališ

Women's tournament

 * Roster
 * Goalkeepers: 1 Kristýna Bláhová, 29 Denisa Jandová, 30 Kateřina Zechovská
 * Defenders: 3 Klára Jandušíková, 4 Daniela Pejšová, 7 Denisa Habartová, 14 Barbora Hrůšová, 21 Karolína Kosinová, 23 Zuzana Martinů, 24 Adéla Jůzková, 26 Adéla Hanzlíková, 28 Viktorie Chladová
 * Forwards: 5 Tereza Mazancová, 6 Alexandra Halounová, 8 Barbora Patočková, 12 Patricie Škorpíková, 13 Martina Mašková, 16 Martina Exnerová, 17 Kateřina Petřeková, 18 Tereza Topolská, 20 Sandra Halounová, 25 Kristýna Pátková
 * Coach: Jakub Peslar

Nordic combined
In Nordic combined, Matěj Fardhons started the first race with a great ski jumping round. Behind Japan's Sakutaro Kobayashi, who was by far unbeatable in Lake Placid, he was in third place, but in the cross country he fell down to the seventh place. In the second race, Fadrhons did not finish the mass start cross country round.


 * Individual

Short track speed skating
With two athletes, both recovering from medical issues, Czech team did not record prominent results in short track speed skating.


 * Men


 * Women

Ski jumping
The only Czech ski jumper František Holík attempted to finish in the top ten, but did not succeed.


 * Individual

Snowboarding
Jakub Žerava and Bruno Tatarko advanced to the final stages of the men's snowboard cross event, with Žerava winning silver losing only to France's Benjamin Gattaz.

Kristián Salač performed great in both his events qualifications, but failed to prevail in the finals, despite having a great form as he confirmed soon after at the world championships, where he finished fifth in big air.


 * Snowboard cross


 * Halfpipe, Slopestyle & Big Air


 * Parallel Giant Slalom

Speed skating
Veronika Antošová won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres race, while Zuzana Kuršová's results were less satisfactory.