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Vlastimil Hoferek
	Vlastimil Hoferek
Personal information
Nationality	Czech
Born	6 November 1946 (age 77); Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Sport
Sport	Track and field - hurdling
Club	Vitkovice, Třinec

Vlastimil Hoferek (born

6 November 1946 in Ostrava) is a Czech former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles and 60 metres hurdles

. During his career in which he represented

Summer Universiade, two European Athletics Indoor Championships and European Athletics Championships

in Rome. He is the 60 metres hurdles Czechoslovakian record holder (7.7 seconds) and the Czechoslovakian indoor champion from 1973.

Athletics career

Hoferek started his athletics career under the coach Gibala in

Banska Bystrica

and thereafter he returned to Vitkovice club in Ostrava and run for the club until 1974. In 1972 he started to train with the coach Oto Svrsek and under Svrsek's leadership achieved his best results.

In 1973 Hoferek became the Czechoslovakian indoor athletics champion setting a national record of 7.7 s in the 60 m hurdles^[1] which qualified him for the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Rotterdam. In the same year he also won a gold at the Czechoslovakian Universiade running 14.2 s in the 110 m hurdles. In 1974 he collided with a press photographer during the final at the Czechoslovakian Athletics Indoor Championship and missed his opportunity to defend his indoor athletics champion title.^[2] At the European Indoor Championship in Göteborg he also missed qualifying for the final by one hundredth of a second and came ninth. At the European Athletics Championships in Rome in 1974 he came tenth running the 110 m hurdlers in 13.89 s setting his personal best. In the same year he was sharing 26th-34th position in the world athletics table.^[3]

In 1975 he was selected to prepare for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[4] Following the relegation of Vitkovice club he transferred to Trinec athletics club in the same year but due to protracted injury he ended his career in 1974.

Post-retirement career

Since ending his active career in 1976 he continued to dedicate his free time to athetics and sport. During the years 1976 - 1991 he coached young athletes from Juvinelles and Juniors to Youth and the Under 21. Since 1982 he has been the chair of the regional athletics association of Moravskoslezský kraj. During 1990-1992 he was the chair of the methodical committee and a member of VV ČAS (Executive Committee of Czechoslovakian Athletics Association). He has been working as a track and field athletics official at both the juvenillle/junior and the international athletics events. Currently he is a member of supervisory committee for the Centre of Individual Sports in Ostrava.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
International competitions - representing Czechoslovakia
1973	European Athletics Indoor Championships	Nederland	11th	60 metres hurdles - 8.01 s
1973	Summer Universiade	Moscow, Soviet Union	semifinal	110 metres hurdles - 14.51 s
1974	European Athletics Indoor Championships	Goteborg, Sweden	9th	60 metres hurdles - 8.02 s
1974	European Athletics Championships	Italia	10th	110 metres hurdles - 13.89 s
National Czechoslovakian competitions
1972	Czechoslovak Athletics Indoor Championships	Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia	2nd	50 metres hurdles - 6.8 s
1973	Czechoslovak Athletics Indoor Championships	Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia	1st	60 metres hurdles - 7.7 s (NR)
1973	Czechoslovak Athletics Championships	Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia	2nd	110 metres hurdles - 14.0 s
1973	Czechoslovakian Universiade	Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia	1st	110 metres hurdles - 14.2 s
1974	Czechoslovak Athletics Indoor Championships	Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia	2nd	60 metres hurdles - 7.7 s
1974	Czechoslovak Athletics Championships	Praha, Czechoslovakia	3rd	110 metres hurdles - 13.8 s

Personal Bests

100 metres - 10.5 sec
200 metres - 21.4 sec
110 meters hurdles - 13.7 sec (electronically 13.89 sec)
60 metres hurdlers - 7.7 (NR) (electronically 7.96 sec)

Literature

Malá encyklopedie atletiky - Jan Jirka, Jan Popper a kolektiv, Praha Olympia 1990, 1. vydání
Kdo byl kdo v české atletice - Jan Jirka a kol. Praha Olympia 2004,
ISBN 80-7033-864-4

External Links

References

^ Newspaper Československý sport, 12. February 1973
^ Newspaper Československý sport, 25. February 1974
^ Magazine Atletika, February 1975
^ Newspaper Mladá fronta ze dne 20. December 1974

[1] Newspaper Československý sport, 12. February 1973

[2] Newspaper Československý sport, 25. February 1974

[3] Magazine Atletika, February 1975

[4] Newspaper Mladá fronta ze dne 20. December 1974

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