# Jaroslav Kulhavý

Jaroslav Kulhavý (Czech pronunciation:; born 8 January 1985 in Ústí nad Orlicí), is a Czech mountain biker

## Career

For the first time, he became more aware of himself in 2003, when he became junior champion of the world and Europe. As a result, he also looked at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but the Olympic race did not finish due to the defect. In 2008 he entered the Elite category and gradually began to overcome the best results of the Czech bikers. At the World Championships in St. Petersburg, Wendel finished eleventh, improving three places to the best Czech result of Miloslav Kvasnička in 1991.In 2009, he finished the 11th European Championship, at the World Cup in Canberra, Australia, the ninth. The medal position in the World Cup race has not been successful yet. In 2010, the first major medal successes came. In July, he won the title of European Champion in Israeli Haifa.At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he defended the gold in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Swiss cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal.
He won the gold medal in the cross-country event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the silver medal four years later at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the overall winner of the UCI World Cup in 2011, along with taking 3rd place in 2010 and 2012. In 2013 and 2015 Kulhavy partnered with Christoph Sauser to win the Absa Cape Epic mountain bike stage race ("Tour de France of mountain biking") Kulhavy raced the Absa Cape Epic with Sauser again in March, 2017, but their bid for a third win together was foiled by Nino Schurter and Matthias Stirnemann (Scott-Sram), who eventually prevailed by eight minutes. In June 2014 he took the world title in mountain bike marathon. At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 he came in second in the cross country race. Shortly after the start, he entered the front group and gradually formed a leading couple along with Nino Schurter, who was slowly passing by. In the penultimate sixth lap, Kulhavý was unable to respond to the arrival of a Switzerland cyclist and a gap grew gradually between the two rivals. Jaroslav Kulhavý, however, watched his second place and won the silver medal.

## Major results
### 2003

    1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships

### 2007

    2nd Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
    3rd Overall UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup

### 2008

    1st Cross-country, National Championships

### 2010

    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    1st Marathon, National Championships
    2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships
    3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Windham
       2nd Champéry
       3rd Offenburg

### 2011

    1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
    1st Cross-country, UEC European Championships
    1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Dalby Forest
       1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
       1st Windham
       1st Nové Město
       1st Val di Sole
       2nd Offenburg
       3rd Pietermaritzburg
    2nd Marathon, UCI World Championships

### 2012

    1st Cross-country, Olympic Games
    3rd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Nové Město
       2nd La Bresse
       3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne

### 2013

    1st Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser)
    UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Hafjell
       3rd Albstadt
       3rd Val di Sole

### 2014

    1st Marathon, UCI World Championships
    2nd Marathon, UEC European Championships

### 2015

    1st Marathon, UEC European Championships
    1st Overall Cape Epic (with Christoph Sauser)
    2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
       1st Nové Město
       1st Lenzerheide
       3rd Albstadt

### 2016

    2nd Cross-country, Olympic Games
    2nd Cross-country, UCI World Championships

### 2017

    UCI XCO World Cup
       2nd Lenzerheide

### 2018

    1st Overall Cape Epic (with Howard Grotts)

### 2019

    1st Overall Outcast Rider, Cape Epic

### 2022

    1st Marathon, National Championships
    3rd Marathon, UEC European Championships

## World Cup of Mountain Bikes XCO

| 2013 | Germany | Czech | Italy | Andorra | Canada | Norway | |
| | 3 | 26 | 3 | 34 | 16 | 1 | |
| 2014 | South African Republic | Australia | Czech | Germany | Canada | USA | France |
| | 10 | DNF | 87 | 6 | 36 | DNF | 30 |
| 2015 | Czech | Germany | Switzerland | Canada | USA | Italy | |
| | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 32 | 4 | |