Talk:Jan Železný

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Kdammers in topic key to terms?

WR video at full speed edit

WR video is in slomo, please, someone provide the world with a proper version with audio. Not even Andreas Thorkildsen has seen one, so obviously a hard-to-find vid (http://web.mac.com/a_thorkildsen/iWeb/www.andreasthorkildsen.com/Blog/D07A8BE2-D048-4B81-805D-705440E83B37.html#comment_layer). --SearchedTheWWWallready+P2P

Jan Železný is/was a captain in the Czech Army. edit

It's something I remember being mentioned during commentary when he was competing against Steve Backley many years ago but I'm not sure how it would fit into this article. I've found a source including a good photo of him in uniform on the Czech Ministry of Defence website but unfortunately I don't speak Czech and there doesn't appear to be a corresponding article on the English language version.

Czech Ministry of Defence site with photo of Železný in uniform

There seems to be little information about him other than his competition record, so I hope that someone who knows the subject better and/or understands Czech will be able to incorporate this into the article.

I added him to the category "Czech Military Personnel" as I believe it to be appropriate in this case. Again I don't know whether he was an active soldier or if it was more a case that military service allowed him to train full-time as an athlete while retaining his amateur status; this is something that I hope an expert can shed more light on.

IrishPete 02:16, 27 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

key to terms? edit

What does (q) (used in the chart) mean? How about NM? Kdammers (talk) 06:19, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply