The Czech Olympic Committee ( is the National Olympic Committee

National Olympic Committee

National Olympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games...

 (NOC) representing the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. It is one of the oldest NOCs in the world, being founded in 1899. It was transformed into Czechoslovak Olympic Committee in 1919 and reconstituted under its original name in 1992, being formally recognized by the IOC again in 1993.

Presidents

The Czech Olympic Committee has had the following presidents.

• 1996– — Milan Jirásek
• 1990–1996 — Věra Čáslavská
  Vera Cáslavská
  Věra Čáslavská is a Czech gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles...
  
  
• 1988–1989 — Jindřich Poledník
• 1972–1988 — Antonín Himl
• 1970–1972 — Richard Nejezchleb
• 1967–1970 — Emanuel Bosák
• 1958–1967 — František Vodsloň
• 1956–1958 — Václav Pleskot
• 1951–1956 — Vilém Mucha
• 1929–1951 — Josef Gruss
• 1899–1929 — Jiří Stanislav Guth-Jarkovský