Czech Republic

=== Sport ===
{{Main|Sport in the Czech Republic}}
[[File:JaromirJagr2010WinterOlympics.jpg|thumb|right|Hockey player [[Jaromír Jágr]]]]
The two leading sports in the Czech Republic are [[Association football|football]] and [[ice hockey]]. The most watched sporting events are the [[Ice hockey at the Olympic Games|Olympic tournament]] and [[Ice Hockey World Championships|World Championships]] of ice hockey.<ref>{{cite news|title=ČT sport vysílá deset let, nejsledovanější byl hokej|url=https://www.mediaguru.cz/clanky/2016/02/ct-sport-vysila-deset-let-nejsledovanejsi-byl-hokej/|work=MediaGuru.cz|language=cs|access-date=6 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507003526/https://www.mediaguru.cz/clanky/2016/02/ct-sport-vysila-deset-let-nejsledovanejsi-byl-hokej/|archive-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=21 October 2011|title=Prague's Most Popular Sports|url=http://www.prague.fm/11845/pragues-most-popular-sports/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131643/http://www.prague.fm/11845/pragues-most-popular-sports/|archive-date=13 April 2014|access-date=14 May 2014|publisher=Prague.fm}}</ref> Other most popular sports include [[tennis]], [[volleyball]], [[floorball]], [[golf]], [[ball hockey]], [[Sport of athletics|athletics]], [[basketball]] and [[skiing]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Golf, florbal a hokejbal pronikly mezi nejoblíbenější české sporty |url=https://www.idnes.cz/sport/ostatni/golf-florbal-a-hokejbal-pronikly-mezi-nejoblibenejsi-ceske-sporty.A091011_125801_sporty_par |work=iDNES.cz |date=11 October 2009}}</ref>

The country has won 15 gold medals in the [[Summer Olympic Games|Summer Olympics]] and nine in the [[Winter Olympic Games|Winter Games]]. (See [[All-time Olympic Games medal table|Olympic history]].) The [[Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team|Czech ice hockey team]] won the gold medal at the [[1998 Winter Olympics]] and has won twelve gold medals at the [[IHWC|World Championships]], including three straight from [[1999 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|1999]] to [[2001 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2001]].{{cn|date=July 2023}}

The [[Škoda Motorsport]] is engaged in [[Motorsport|competition racing]] since 1901 and has gained a number of titles with various vehicles around the world. [[MTX (automobile)|MTX]] automobile company was formerly engaged in the manufacture of [[Auto racing|racing]] and [[Formula racing|formula]] cars since 1969.{{cn|date=July 2023}}

[[Hiking]] is a popular sport. The word for 'tourist' in Czech, ''turista'', also means 'trekker' or 'hiker'. For hikers, thanks to the more than 120-year-old tradition, there is the [[Czech Hiking Markers System]] of [[trail blazing]], that has been adopted by countries worldwide. There is a network of around 40,000&nbsp;km of marked short- and long-distance trails crossing the whole country and all the Czech mountains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/czech-tourism/hiking-in-the-czech-republic/p1|title=Hiking in the Czech Republic|publisher=Expats|date=16 June 2011|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023203911/http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/czech-tourism/hiking-in-the-czech-republic/p1|archive-date=23 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kct.cz/cms/turisticke-znaceni-kct|title=Turistické značení KČT|publisher=KČT|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215161119/http://www.kct.cz/cms/turisticke-znaceni-kct|archive-date=15 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>