Lukáš Pollert

Lukáš Pollert (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlukaːʃ ˈpolɛrt]) (born 24 March 1970 in Prague) is a Czech slalom canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the C1 event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1996.

Lukáš Pollert

Medal record
Men's canocau nadoslalom
Representing Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	C1
Representing Czech Republic
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	C1
World Championships
	1997 Três Coroas	C1
European Championships
	1996 Augsburg	C1 team
	2000 Mezzana	C1 team
	1998 Roudnice nad Labem	C1
	2000 Mezzana	C1

Pollert also won a silver medal in the C1 event at the 1997 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Três Coroas and the overall World Cup title in the C1 category in 1993. At the European Championships he won a total of four medals (2 silvers and 2 bronzes).

He took part in the Velvet Revolution in 1989 in Czechoslovakia which Pollert later considered more important to him than the gold medal he won at Barcelona three years later.

Being a Doctor of Medicine, Pollert retired in 2000 and is nowadays active in his career of a GP in ER of Prague's Military Hospital. He has published several books of interviews with other top Czech sportsmen ("Lukáš Pollert se ptá") and is an active videoblogger on the Vyladeno.tv website. With his partner, Pavla, he has six children, three sons and three daughters.

His sister is actress Klára Pollertová.

World Cup individual podiums

				Total
C1	7	3	4	14

Season	Date	Venue	Position	Event
1991	30 June 1991	Mezzana	3rd	C1
1992	23 February 1992	Launceston	1st	C1
1993	25 July 1993	Lofer	1st	C1
	21 August 1993	Minden	1st	C1
	31 August 1993	Ocoee	3rd	C1
1994	17 July 1994	La Seu d'Urgell	1st	C1
	18 September 1994	Asahi, Aichi	2nd	C1
1995	2 July 1995	Tacen	1st	C1
	9 July 1995	Mezzana	2nd	C1
1996	25 August 1996	Prague	2nd	C1
1998	14 June 1998	Liptovský Mikuláš	3rd	C1
	13 September 1998	La Seu d'Urgell	3rd	C1
1999	20 June 1999	Tacen	1st	C1
	24 June 1999	Tacen	1st	C1

References

• DatabaseOlympics.com profile at the Wayback Machine (archived February 23, 2007)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lukáš Pollert". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
• Vyladeno.tv at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Slalom Singles". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 486.