Filip Jícha jun.
Born in 2004 in Kladno. A student at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, and a member of the Czech national team in winter and long-distance swimming. A lifelong sports enthusiast, he discovered winter swimming at the age of fourteen, following a health-related break, and it soon became his passion and life path. He successfully combines demanding engineering studies with a career as a top athlete competing in extreme conditions.
Silver and bronze medalist at the World Winter Swimming Championships in Samoëns (France) and bronze medalist in Molveno (2025). At the age of 19, he swam across the English Channel in 13 hours and 41 minutes, and two years later completed the North Channel crossing as part of the Czech Lions team. The youngest Czech swimmer to have swum beyond the Arctic Circle — in the Arctic (Svalbard) and Antarctica (Port Lockroy). Czech national champion in winter swimming (100 m breaststroke) and recipient of the 2024 Kladno City Award for Outstanding Sporting Achievement.
