Tomáš Dvořák

Tomáš Dvořák

Tomáš Dvořák
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Czech Republic
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Decathlon
World Championships
1997 Athens Decathlon
1999 Seville Decathlon
2001 Edmonton Decathlon
World Indoor Championships
1995 Barcelona Heptathlon
European Indoor Championships
2000 Ghent Heptathlon
1996 Stockholm Heptathlon
2002 Vienna Heptathlon

Tomáš Dvořák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈdvor̝aːk]), born 11 May 1972 in Gottwaldov (now Zlín), Czechoslovakia, is an athlete from the Czech Republic. He competed in the decathlon and heptathlon for the team Dukla Prague. He is a three-time decathlon world champion (1997, 1999, 2001) and a former world record holder (8,994 points scored in Prague, 1999), which is still the fifth best performance of all-time. This record was broken by Dvořák's compatriot Roman Šebrle in 2001. Dvořák is the only athlete to score over 8,900 points three times.

Dvořák announced his retirement in July 2008, after he failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. He now works as an athletic coach.