Photo: e-Sbírky, National Museum
The Czech Republic has sent a record number of athletes to the Winter Olympics in Milan and the country has a good track record of participation in winter Olympic sports. To find the very first Czech medal from the Winter Games, we would have to go back to St. Moritz in 1928, when Czech-German Rudolf Burkert won the bronze in ski jumping.
Rudolf Burkert was born on October 31, 1904, in the village of Polubný in the Jizera Mountains.
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