When you tame a boat, it‘s a huge adrenaline rush
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Dušan Srb, the only winner of the Yachting World Cup in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, was born in Prague on 4 September 1941. Because of the war, his parents sent him to his aunt and uncle in Batovany, Slovakia, where his uncle taught him to hunt game and fish. After the war, he returned to his parents, this time to Jablonec. He trained as a toolmaker and started to attend a sailboat-building club at school. After his apprenticeship, he attended the industrial school for five years, during which he worked at the LIAZ plant. First as a toolmaker, then in construction and development. In 1960, he joined the military service, where he competed in downhill skiing under Dukla Karlovy Vary. After the war, he was one of the best Czechoslovak downhill skiers, but due to an injury, he had to quit the sport. He started to devote himself to sailing. In 1980, he won a World Cup pairs race with Jindřich Teplík in the Netherlands. After that, he quit his racing career and started to train children, including his daughter Renata, in the TJ Delfín Jablonec club. He participated with her as a national team coach in the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992. He had his own company where he produced sailing boats Optimist. Since 2008 he has been the coach of the children‘s national team, and two years later, he was named Coach of the Year by the Czech Sailing Association. In 2024, he lived in Tanvald.
