Filip Ospalý

Filip Ospalý is a triathlete from the Czech Republic, born on 15 May 1976 in Ústí nad Labem. He lined up at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney but did not finish, then returned four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he completed the course in 1:57:17.58 and placed twenty-ninth. In 2006 he became European champion at the ITU Duathlon European Championship in Rimini, which shows that his speed carried over from the three-discipline format to the run-bike-run format. He belongs to the French club ECS Triathlon, one of the best-known squads of the elite short-course circuit. He is among the earliest Czech competitors in Olympic triathlon.