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World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	27	18
2018	Wuxi, CHN	84	11

European Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Dusseldorf, GER	30	14
2018	Novi Sad, SRB	30	9

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 12th	-
2019/2020	1 x 40th	1 x 21st, 1 x 23rd, 1 x 24th
2018/2019	1 x 25th, 1 x 42nd	1 x 8th, 1 x 16th, 1 x 18th
2017/2018	1 x 5th, 1 x 20th, 1 x 27th	1 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 2 x 8th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 46th
2018/2019	1 x 16th, 1 x 20th
2017/2018	1 x 44th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
5	2017/2018	Epee Individual	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
5	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
6	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
8	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
8	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Legnano, ITA
8	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
12	2020/2021	Epee Individual	World Cup	Kazan, RUS
12	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
16	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Cali, COL
16	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Torun, POL	9	7
2018	Verona, ITA	9	7
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	9	12

Sampion (Facebook profile, 25 May 2018)

Athlete, Student

Physical Education - Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Czech, English

TJ Dukla Olomouc [Czech Republic]

Martin Rubes Sr. [national], CZE; Tomas Jurka [national, father], CZE

Left (fie.org, 2018)

His grandfather Jaroslav Jurka represented Czechoslovakia in fencing at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980. His father Tomas Jurka also competed in the sport. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 Jul 2018; idnes.cz, 28 Apr 2017)

An injury to his achilles affected his performance at the 2018 European Junior Championships in Sochi, Russian Federation. (idnes.cz, 11 Jan 2019)

He began fencing in 2006. (czechfencing.cz, 2018; idnes.cz, 28 Apr 2017)

The sport is popular in his family. He was encouraged to start fencing by his father and his grandfather, although his mother hoped he would take up another sport instead. (idnes.cz, 28 Apr 2017)

To represent the Czech Republic at the Olympic Games. (idnes.cz, 28 Apr 2017)

Czech fencers Jaroslav Jurka [his grandfather], Martin Rubes, and Jiri Beran. (idnes.cz, 28 Apr 2017)