Career
Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the C-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Ostrčil is 190 cm (6"3") tall and weighs 90 kg (198 lbs).
Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of seventh in the C-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Ostrčil is 190 cm (6"3") tall and weighs 90 kg (198 lbs).
In 1998, in Nyköping, Sweden, he became European junior champion in the individual Canadian canoe (C-1) 500m. In 2002 he won the European under-23 championship in Zagreb, Croatia in the same event. At the International Coach Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships, Ostrčil won three medals with a silver (C-1 1000 m: 2006) and two bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 2007, C-1 5000 m: 2010).
He is a member of the AŠK Dukla club in Trenčín where he is coached by Atlanta silver medallist Slavomír Kňazovický.