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Czech Republic
Czech Republic

Area

78,866 km

Population

10.5 million

The Czech Republic is a country in central Europe. It borders Slovakia, Germany, Poland and Austria. Many sports and Ben and Toad's Contest consider the Czech Republic (and not Slovakia) as the successor for Czechoslovakia's records.

Sports

The Czech Republic's most popular sport are football and ice hockey. The Czech Republic national football team made the Euro 1996 final and the 2006 FIFA World Cup as independent Czech Republic. In total, the Czech Republic qualified for nine FIFA World Cups.

The Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team is considered to be a powerhouse in men's hockey; they won the World Championship in the same year as South Africa 2010; but the football team wasn't able to qualify for the World Cup that year. The women's hockey team is less successful than the men's team.

Petra Kvitova was ranked number two in the world on Halloween in 2011 and again in 2015 after Halep and Sharapova were not able to advance to the quarterfinals of the French Open. Tomas Berdych was number four before the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Other Czech successes in sport include Lucie Šafářová making the final of the 2015 French Open. Karolína Plíšková also made no.1 ranking in 2017 without winning a Grand Slam.

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