Václav Balšán

{{short description|Czech racewalker}}

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Václav Balšán (19 November 1914 – 18 November 1972){{Cite web |title=BALŠÁN Václav 19.11.1914-18.11.1972 – Personal |url=http://biography.hiu.cas.cz/Personal/index.php/BAL%C5%A0%C3%81N_V%C3%A1clav_19.11.1914-18.11.1972 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=biography.hiu.cas.cz}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/923221|title=Václav Balšán|access-date=December 13, 2020}} was a Czechoslovak racewalker (of the AC Sparta Prague and Spartak Nusle Club)As the athlete of SK JAWA Nusle from 1942 he established the new world record 12 minutes and 6 seconds in a 3,000 meters race who established the 1945 world record of 42 minutes and 31 seconds in a 10,000 metres race. {{Cite web |title=Spartak Praha 4 - oficiální stránky atletického klubu |url=https://www.sp4.cz/historie-oddilu |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=www.sp4.cz}} He was the champion on this distance at Czechoslovak Athletics Championships in 1945, 1946, 1948 and 1949. He also won the silver medal in 1954.