Michal Smola

Michal Smola is a Czech orienteering competitor, born on 21 December 1981 in Zlin. He became Junior World Champion in the short distance at Nove Mesto na Morave in 2000 and won junior world titles in the relay with the Czech team in 2000 and 2001. His best senior result as of September 2009 is a silver medal in the middle distance at the 2008 World Orienteering Championships in Olomouc. At twelve he joined the local club SKOB Zlin, where he was trained by Jiri Stacke until 1999. He won his first national title in 1995 at the age of fourteen, in the short distance for the under 16 category, and in 1998 won his first international competition, the European Youth Championships in Hungary, in the under 18 category.