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Jan Šindelář

Czech bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ49985797 ↗
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Jan Šindelář (born 3 November 1993) is a Czech bobsledder. He competed at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

Career

Šindelář was first named as one of the participants for the Czech Republic at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where he also got his first tattoo.

At the 2019–20 Bobsleigh World Cup in Königssee, Šindelář teamed up with Dominik Suchý, Dominik Dvořák, and Jakub Nosek – finishing seventh place in the final standings of the four-man bobsleigh. They also finished tenth place during IBSF World Championships 2020.

After Suchý withdrew from the 2022 Winter Olympics due to an injury, it was confirmed that Šindelář would remain in the Czech bobsleigh team with Dvořák and Nosek, along with newcomers Dominik Záleský and Jáchym Procházka.

Personal life

Šindelář names Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin as his close friends.

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“Jan Šindelář” enters the record as czech bobsledder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Šindelář, Czech and bobsledder can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2018, 2022, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-11-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Šindelář, Czech and bobsledder.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Šindelář” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.