Jan Řehula — Sponzorovaní závodníci — Duratec

He has been doing sports since his childhood and he started to gain endurance as a 4-year-old boy during long skiing and cyclist trips with his parents. If he hadn’t given a try to swimming, he could have been a good figure-skater. His great and successful triathlon career basically started by swimming. As a swimmer he went through the SCM and SVS system in Pilsen, but when he was 18 he was attracted by a new sport that came from the then denounced USA – triathlon! Not only the medal from the Olympic triathlon premiere in Sydney 2000 but also his coaching success of the past few years on a high international level proved that his choice was right.

A question for Honza: Has it ever occurred to you where your sports career would lead you?
Not in my wildest dreams. When I first got the offer to work in the South Korean team I firstly took it as a joke. Korea seemed too exotic to me, I couldn’t really imagine working there out of a sudden. I have been used to travelling since my early childhood. The Earth is my home; it is my destiny, life destination and the mission of this life. However, I have to confess that the start was difficult. Culture shock, new environment, the twenty-million city of Soul, communication problems, a completely different style of thinking in comparison with Europe. I got used to it step by step, I started to have fondness for Korea and the Koreans and what I wouldn’t expect at all, I accepted Korea as my home.