Aleš Höffer

{{short description|Czechoslovak hurdler}}

{{Infobox athlete

| name = Aleš Höffer

| image = Aleš Höffer.jpg

| caption = Aleš Höffer in 1988

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1962|12|9|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|12|14|1962|12|9|df=yes}}

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| sport = Athletics

| event = 110 m hurdles, 60 m hurdles

| club = Slavia IPS
USK

| coach = Jan Pospíšil

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Aleš Höffer (9 December 1962 – 14 December 2008) was a Czechoslovak athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles.{{World Athletics}} He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1988 European Indoor Championships. He also represented his country at the 1987 World Championships reaching the semifinals.

His personal bests were 13.53 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+1.4 m/s; Moscow 1987) and 7.56 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Budapest 1988).[http://www.all-athletics.com/en-us/athlete/291627 All-Athletics profile]

International competitions

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colspan="6"|Representing {{TCH}}
1984

|Friendship Games

|Moscow, Soviet Union

|11th (h)

|110 m hurdles

|13.95

1985

|European Indoor Championships

|Piraeus, Greece

|13th (h)

|60 m hurdles

|7.90

rowspan=2|1987

|European Indoor Championships

|Liévin, France

|18th (h)

|60 m hurdles

|7.92

World Championships

|Rome, Italy

|13th (sf)

|110 m hurdles

|13.78

1988

|European Indoor Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|60 m hurdles

|7.56

1989

|European Indoor Championships

|The Hague, Netherlands

|8th

|60 m hurdles

|7.84

1990

|European Indoor Championships

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|24th (h)

|60 m hurdles

|8.50

References