Lukáš Pollert

Lukáš Pollert (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.

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

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent 1991 30 June 1991 Mezzana 3rd C1 1992 23 February 1992 Launceston 1st C11993 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 C11996 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