Slovakia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Slovakia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	SVK
NPC	Slovak Paralympic Committee
Website	www.spv.sk
in Beijing
Competitors	36 in 10 sports
Medals Ranked 39th	Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 6
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Slovakia competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

Slovak competitors won medals in table tennis, shooting, and cycling.[1]

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Veronika Vadovicova	Shooting	Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1	September 7
Gold	Rastislav Revucky Jan Riapos	Table tennis	Men's team class 1-2	September 15
Silver	Rastislav Turecek	Cycling	Men's time trial HC A	September 12
Silver	Miroslav Jambor Richard Csejtey	Table tennis	Men's team class 6-8	September 16
Silver	Alena Kanova	Table tennis	Women's individual class 3	September 10
Bronze	Miroslav Jambor	Table tennis	Men's individual class 8	September 11

Sports

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Imrich Lyocsa	Men's individual recurve standing	602	10	Atamanenko (UKR) W 95-73	Hasegawa (JPN) W 100-94	Chen Y (CHN) L 95-98	did not advance
Vladimir Majercak		546	22	Beard (GBR) L 87-88	did not advance
Miroslav Kacina	Men's individual recurve W1/W2	566	21	Mat Zin (MAS) L 83-96	did not advance
Miroslav Kacina Imrich Lyocsa Vladimir Majercak	Men's team recurve	1714	9	—	Ukraine (UKR) L 181-185	did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Andrej Germic	F53-54	Shot put	8.84 SB	910	13
Julius Hutka	F57-58	Javelin throw	35.98 SB	927	8
		Shot put	12.21	910	9
Marek Margoc	F40	Shot put	9.90	-	6
Adrian Vasko	F55-56	Shot put	10.88 SB	938	10

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hana Kolnikova	T12	100m	13.08	8 q	12.87	5 B	12.87	5
		200m	26.25	7 q	26.45	7	did not advance

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Robert Durkovic	Mixed individual BC4	Ni (CHN)	L 1-5	3	did not advance
		Leung Y K (HKG)	L 4-7
		Streharsky (SVK)	W 4-3
Martin Streharsky		Ni (CHN)	L 2-8	4	did not advance
		Leung Y K (HKG)	L 3-4
		Durkovic (SVK)	L 3-4
Robert Durkovic Martin Streharsky	Pairs BC4	Dueso (ESP) /  Desamparados Baixauli (ESP)	L 1-6	3	did not advance
		Pinto (BRA) /  E Santos (BRA)	L 0-6
		Beres (HUN) /  Gyurkota (HUN)	W 5-4

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Patrick Chlebo	Men's road race LC1/LC2/CP4	1:46:18	13
	Men's road time trial LC1	38:19.29	12
Rastislav Turecek	Men's road time trial HC A	30:53.09
Vladislav Janovjak Robert Mitosinka (pilot)	Men's road race B&VI 1-3	2:16:54	4
	Men's road time trial B&VI 1-3	32:57.06	4

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Vladislav Janovjak Robert Mitosinka (pilot)	Men's individual pursuit B&VI 1-3	4:32.236	7	did not advance

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
			Score	Rank
Katarina Jobbagyova	Timpex Libbeno	Mixed individual championship test grade Ia	61.300	7
		Mixed individual freestyle test grade Ia	58.666	12

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Lubos Jancek	100kg	147.5	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Maria Bartosova	56kg	70.0	8

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Radoslav Malenovsky	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1074	27	did not advance
	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	599	3 Q	104.8	703.8	5
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	581	26	did not advance
Jozef Siroky	Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1	565	25	did not advance
	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	1095	24	did not advance
	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	596	26	did not advance
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	581	25	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Veronika Vadovičová	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	599	8 Q	104.7	703.7	6
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	586	7 Q	101.4	687.4	8
	Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1	392	1 Q	102.8	494.8
	Women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1	570	4 Q	97.8	667.8	4

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Viera Mikulasikova	S10	50m freestyle	30.16	8 Q	29.94	8
		100m freestyle	1:06.57	10	did not advance
		100m butterfly	1:16.00	7 Q	1:17.10	8
	SB9	100m breaststroke	1:29.57	10	did not advance
	SM10	200m individual medley	2:44.06	5 Q	2:40.43	4
Karina Petrikovicova	SB12	100m breaststroke	1:35.25	10	did not advance
Margita Prokeinova	S7	50m butterfly	41.88	7 Q	40.70	7
		50m freestyle	39.23	9	did not advance
	SM7	200m individual medley	3:29.86	8 Q	3:19.01	5

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Richard Csejtey	Men's singles C8	Li M (CHN) W 3-2	Serignat (FRA) L 2-3	Hou T S (TPE) W 3-0	2	did not advance
Ladislav Gaspar	Men's singles C9-10	Last (NED) L 0-3	Karlsson (SWE) L 1-3	—	3	did not advance
Miroslav Jambor	Men's singles C8	Glikman (ISR) W 3-2	Ledoux (BEL) L 2-3	Kent (CAN) W 3-2	1 Q	—	Grudzien (POL) L 0-3	Li M (CHN) W 3-2
Jan Kosco	Men's singles C3	Robin (FRA) L 0-3	Quijada (VEN) W 3-0	—	2	did not advance
Andrej Mészáros	Men's singles C4-5	Paulsen (NOR) L 0-3	Cetin (GER) L 0-3	—	3	did not advance
Peter Mihalik	Men's singles C4-5	Kim B Y (KOR) W 3-2	Chang C J (TPE) W 3-1	—	1 Q	Durand (FRA) L 0-3	did not advance
Rastislav Revucky	Men's singles C2	Hansen (DEN) L 1–3	Vilsmaier (GER) W 3–2	Kovalski (BRA) W 3–0	2	did not advance
Jan Riapos	Men's singles C2	Kim K M (KOR) L 0-3	Mennella (FRA) W 3-0	Gao Y (CHN) W 3-0	2	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Olga Barbusova	Women's singles C8	Kamkasomphou (FRA) L 0-3	Abrahamsson (SWE) L 0-3	Janeckova (CZE) W 3-1	3	did not advance
Alena Kanova	Women's singles C3	Bakhtiary (IRI) W 3–0	Mariage (FRA) W 3–0	Ploner (ITA) W 3–0	1 Q	Brunelli (ITA) W 3–1	Li Q (CHN) L 0-3

Teams

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rastislav Revucky Jan Riapos	Men's team C1-2	—	Cuba (CUB) W 3–0	South Korea (KOR) W 3-2	France (FRA) W 3-0
Jan Kosco Andrej Mészáros Peter Mihalik	Men's team C4-5	Sweden (SWE) L 0-3	did not advance
Richard Csejtey Miroslav Jambor	Men's team C6-8	Bye	Spain (ESP) W 3-0	France (FRA) W 3-1	China (CHN) L 0-3

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
David Chabrecek	Men's singles	Houdet (FRA) L 2-6, 0-6	did not advance
Jozef Felix		Carter (CAN) W 6-4, 6-3	Rydberg (USA) L 4-6, 3-6	did not advance
Marek Gergely		Gérard (BEL) L 1-6, 0-6	did not advance
Jozef Felix Marek Gergely	Men's doubles	—	Phillipson (GBR) /  Reid (GBR) W 6-2, 6-2	Ammerlaan (NED) /  Stuurman (NED) L 2-6, 2-6	did not advance

See also

• Slovakia at the Paralympics
• Slovakia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links

• Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
• International Paralympic Committee

References

1. "9 Nations preparing for the Paralympics in Lasko", official website of the International Paralympic Table Tennis Federation