Background
His first coach was his father Václav Chalupa Senior, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and reestablished the only rowing club in their small town when he was thirteen.
His first coach was his father Václav Chalupa Senior, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and reestablished the only rowing club in their small town when he was thirteen.
From 1989 till 2004 he was coached by Zdeněk Pecka. He rowed at sixteen world championships. In the single scull, he came second at four consecutive meets from 1989 to 1993, and third in 1995, 1998, and 2001 (when just 07 seconds separated the top three rowers).
At his final world championships in Poznan, he came second in the coxed pairs.
He came first at the 1990 Goodwill Games in the single sculls, at three World Cup events in 1991, 1993, and 1999, and at the Hackett Thames World Sculling Challenge in 2000. He is a captain in the Czechoslovakian army and a skilled repairman of agricultural machinery.
lieutenant is estimated that he has rowed 60 000 km in his career. He is a fan of fellow rowers Thomas Lange and Steve Redgrave, and of Mr.