# Jiří Candra

Jiří Candra (born 16 April 1986 in Prague) is a Czech curler and curling coach.
At the national level, he is a three-time Czech men's champion curler (2016, 2019, 2020) and two-time Czech mixed doubles champion curler (2014, 2015).
He works as curling ice technician (icemaker).

## Teams
### Men's

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 2002–03 | Jiří Candra | Filip Skála | Šimon Slavík | Petr Král | | | CJCC 2003 (7 место) |
| 2003–04 | Ondřej Hurtík | Kryštof Chaloupek | Jiří Candra | Michal Láznička | | | CJCC 2004 |
| 2004–05 | Ondřej Hurtík | Kryštof Chaloupek | Jiří Candra | Michal Láznička | | | CJCC 2005 |
| 2005–06 | David Sik | Erik Sik | Pavel Mensik | Milan Polivka | Jiří Candra | Jiří Candra, David Sik | ECC 2005 (13th) |
| 2005–06 | Ondřej Hurtík | Jakub Bareš | Jiří Candra | Michal Láznička | Kryštof Chaloupek | Karel Kubeška | EJCC 2006 |
| 2005–06 | Ondřej Hurtík | Jiří Candra | Kryštof Chaloupek | Michal Láznička | | | CJCC 2006 |
| 2006–07 | Jakub Bareš | Jiří Candra | Martin Hejhal | Martin Štěpánek | Ondřej Hurtík | Karel Kubeška | EJCC 2007 WJCC 2007 (10th) |
| 2010–11 | Jiří Candra | Tomáš Paul | David Jirounek | Kryštof Chaloupek | | | |
| 2010–11 | Lukáš Klíma | Jiří Candra | Tomáš Paul | David Jirounek | Kryštof Chaloupek | Karel Kubeška | WUG 2011 |
| 2011–12 | Karel Kubeška | Jiří Candra | David Jirounek | Ondřej Nývlt | | Anna Kubešková | CMCC 2012 |
| 2013–14 | Lukáš Klíma | Jiří Candra | Tomáš Paul | David Jirounek | Martin Jurík | Kryštof Chaloupek | WUG 2013 (7th) |
| 2013–14 | Lukáš Klíma | Tomáš Paul | Jiří Candra | David Jirounek | Martin Jurík | | |
| 2013–14 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | David Jirounek | Tomáš Zelenka | | Anna Kubešková | CMCC 2014 (6th) |
| 2014–15 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Martin Jurík | David Jirounek | Tomáš Zelenka | Anna Kubešková | CMCC 2015 (6th) |
| 2015–16 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Martin Jurík | David Jirounek | | Anna Kubešková | CMCC 2016 |
| 2016–17 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Martin Jurík | David Jirounek | Lukáš Klíma | Rickard Hallström | ECC 2016 (13th) |
| 2016–17 | Karel Kubeška | Jiří Candra | Martin Jurík | Lukáš Klíma | David Jirounek | | |
| 2016–17 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Martin Jurík | David Jirounek | | | CMCC 2017 (4th) |
| 2017–18 | Jiří Candra | Michal Dolejsi | Martin Bukovsky | Pavel Krofika | Jan Tuik | | |
| 2017–18 | Lukáš Klíma | Jiří Candra | Marek Černovský | Jakub Bareš | | | |
| 2018–19 | Lukáš Klíma | Jiří Candra | Marek Černovský | Samuel Mokriš | | | |
| 2018–19 | Lukáš Klíma | Marek Černovský | Jiří Candra | Samuel Mokriš | | Lenka Černovská | CMCC 2019 |
| 2019–20 | Lukáš Klíma | Marek Černovský | Jiří Candra | Samuel Mokriš | Radek Boháč | Craig Savill | ECC 2019 (11th) |
| 2019–20 | Lukáš Klíma | Marek Černovský | Jiří Candra | Samuel Mokriš | | Jan Zelingr | CMCC 2020 |
| 2021–22 | Lukáš Klíma | Marek Černovský | Radek Boháč | Jiří Candra | Samuel Mokriš | Craig Savill | ECC 2021 (7th) |

### Mixed

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Events |
| 2005–06 | Veronika Herdová (fourth) | Michal Láznička | Luisa Illková | Jiří Candra | | CMxCC 2007 (4th) |
| 2008–09 | Jiří Candra | Luisa Illková | Ondřej Nývlt | Veronika Kramlová | Michal Láznička | CMxCC 2009 (18th) |
| 2009–10 | Karel Kubeška | Anna Kubešková | Jiří Candra | Tereza Plíšková | | CMxCC 2010 (9th) |
| 2010–11 | Jiří Candra | Kamila Mošová | Martin Mulač | Kateřina Urbanová | | CMxCC 2011 (7th) |
| 2011–12 | Karel Kubeška | Tereza Plíšková | Jiří Candra | Anna Kubešková | | CMxCC 2012 |
| 2012–13 | Karel Kubeška | Anna Kubešková | Jiří Candra | Tereza Plíšková | | CMxCC 2013 |
| 2013–14 | Anna Kubešková (fourth) | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Tereza Plíšková | Jiří Candra | | CMxCC 2014 |
| 2014–15 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Anna Kubešková | Karel Kubeška (skip) | Tereza Plíšková | Klára Svatoňová, Martin Jurík | CMxCC 2015 (6th) |
| 2015–16 | Jiří Candra | Ežen Kolčevská | Martin Blahovec | Klára Svatoňová | | CMxCC 2016 (8th) |
| 2016–17 | Jiří Candra (fourth) | Martina Strnadová | Sune Frederiksen (skip) | Karolína Frederiksen | Michal Zdenka | CMxCC 2017 (5th) |
| 2018–19 | Jiří Candra | Laura Klímová | Martin Blahovec | Luisa Klímová | | CMxCC 2019 (7th) |

### Mixed doubles

| Season | Female | Male | Coach | Events |
| 2009–10 | Tereza Plíšková | Jiří Candra | | CMDCC 2009 |
| 2011–12 | Tereza Plíšková | Jiří Candra | | CMDCC 2011 (10th) |
| 2012–13 | Anna Candrová | Jiří Candra | | CMDCC 2012 (17th) |
| 2013–14 | Anna Candrová | Jiří Candra | | CMDCC 2013 (7th) |
| 2014–15 | Anna Kubešková | Jiří Candra | Karel Kubeška | CMDCC 2014 |
| 2015–16 | Anna Kubešková | Jiří Candra | Karel Kubeška | CMDCC 2015 WMDCC 2016 (21st) |

## Record as a coach of national teams

| Year | Tournament, event | National team | Place |
| 2005 | 2005 European Curling Championships | Czech Republic (men) | 13 |
| 2009 | 2009 European Junior Curling Challenge | Czech Republic (junior women) | |
| 2009 | 2009 World Junior Curling Championships | Czech Republic (junior women) | 7 |
| 2010 | 2010 World Junior Curling Championships | Czech Republic (junior women) | 8 |
| 2010 | 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship | Czech Republic (mixed double) | 9 |
| 2017 | 2017 World Mixed Curling Championship | Czech Republic (mixed team) | |

## Personal life

He started curling in 2002 at the age of 16.