President Pavel congratulates Czech athletes on their performance at the Paris Olympics

President Petr Pavel congratulated Czech athletes on their performance at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris and thanked them for their exemplary representation of the country. The president wrote on the X network that sport is not just about victories and medals, but it is also about enormous willpower, determination, hard work, pain, time and money, not only on the part of the athletes, but on the part of the entire team and their families. He also praised the organizers of the Olympic Festival in Most for a job well done.

The Czech Republic won three gold and two bronze medals. The gold medals were won by tennis players Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč in mixed doubles, and canoeists Martin Fuksa and Josef Dostál. The épée fencing team and javelin thrower Nikola Ogrodníková secured bronze.