Milan Šperl

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
World Championships
Bronze 2007 Sapporo Team sprint

Milan Šperl (pronounced [ˈmɪlan ˈʃpɛrl̩] (help·info)), nicknamed Špek (Czech for "speck"), (born February 26, 1980 in Karlovy Vary) is a Czech cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. He won a bronze medal in the team sprint (with Dušan Kožíšek) at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. Šperl's best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a 6th in the 50 km event at Oberstdorf in 2005.

His best finish at the Winter Olympics was 27th in the 50 km event at Turin in 2006. Šperl has a total of eight individual victories at distances up to 15 km since 2002 in FIS races. He is also a six times champion of the Czech Republic in individual races (2002 1.8 km sprint [1], 2003 50 km classical [2], 2004 1.2 km sprint [3] and 50 km freestyle [4], 2005 2×10 km double pursuit [5], and 2006 10 km freestyle [6].

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2002/MCR0316.pdf (Czech)
  2. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2003/MD030316.pdf (Czech)
  3. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2004/MD040124.pdf (Czech)
  4. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2004/MR040314.html (Czech)
  5. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2005/MD050108.pdf (Czech)
  6. ^ http://sport-casomira.cz/doc/2006/MD060108.pdf (Czech)

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