Pavel Ploc

Pavel Ploc (, born 15 June 1964) is a Czech former ski jumper who competed for Czechoslovakia, winning two Olympic medals.

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).

On 19 March 1983, at the 7th Ski Flying World Championships, he tied the ski jumping world record distance at 181 metres (594 ft) on Čerťák in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia.

At the same time, he was elected to the Liberec Regional Assembly for the ČSSD in the 2008 regional elections. He did not stand for the regional elections in 2012. In the 2016 elections to the Senate of the Czech Republic, he ran as a candidate for the ČSSD in District No. 34 - Liberec. With 5.77% of the vote, he finished in 5th place and did not advance to the second round.

In the 2017 elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, he defended his seat for the ČSSD in the Liberec region, but was unsuccessful.

In June 2012, Pavel Ploc and the non-attached Jaroslav Škárka were the only two MPs who voted against the extradition of David Rath for prosecution.