Jaroslav Brabec

Jaroslav Brabec (27 July 1949 – 20 May 2018) was a Czech track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. He twice represented Czechoslovakia at the Summer Olympics (1972 and 1976). He was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Championships (1971, 1974 and 1978) and a three-time medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, being the champion at the 1973 edition.

Brabec had a personal best of in 1973. He was a 13-time national champion for Czechoslovakia, eight times outdoors and five indoors. He first emerged at national level at the age of twenty winning both the indoor and outdoor national titles. His throw of at that year's Czechoslovak Athletics Championships was a meet record. This made him the first Czechoslovak shot putter to reach the top ten since Jiří Skobla in 1961. At the 1971 European Athletics Championships he did not perform as well, however, failing to make it through the qualifying round.

He won his first international medal at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships: following on from Skobla's bronze medal in 1966, Brabec himself took the bronze medal behind Hartmut Briesenick of East Germany and Poland's Władysław Komar. Nationally, Miroslav Janoušek took the indoor title, but Brabec improved his meet record at the outdoor championships with a throw of .

In the 1974 season he was usurped at the national championships by Vlk,

International competitions

National titles Czechoslovak Athletics Championships Shot put: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982 Czechoslovak Indoor Championships Shot put: 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979