Jan Soukup
| Jan Soukup | |
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| Born |
September 17, 1979 Prague, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Other names | Czech Samurai |
| Nationality |
 Czech
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 100.0 kg (220.5 lb; 15.75 st) |
| Division | Heavyweight |
| Style | Kyokushin Karate |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Fighting out of |
Tokyo, Japan Prague, Czech Republic |
| Team | Ichigeki Academy Lanna Gym Kakutogi Academy |
| Trainer | Jayson Vemoa |
| Rank |
2nd degree black belt in Kyokushin Branch Chief for International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan in Czech Republic President of the Czech Kyokushin Karate Association |
| Years active | 2001-2011, 2014-present |
| Kickboxing record | |
| Total | 19 |
| Wins | 13 |
| By knockout | 4 |
| Losses | 6 |
| By knockout | 2 |
| Draws | 0 |
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| Medal record | ||
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| Representing Czech Republic
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| Men's Kyokushin | ||
| All-Japan Championships | ||
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Tokyo 2004 | +90 kg |
| European Championships | ||
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Uzhhorod 2003 | +90 kg |
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Varna 2005 | +90 kg |
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Volos 2007 | +90 kg |
| European Open | ||
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Belgrade 2005 | Open |
| World Open | ||
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Tokyo 2007 | Open |
Jan Soukup (born September 17, 1979) is a Czech karateka and kickboxer who competes in the heavyweight division. Soukup's first noteworthy accomplishment was a third-place finish at the European Kyokushin Championships in 2003 and he followed this by winning the All-Japan Kyokushin Championships the next year. After finishing as runner-up in the European Championships and in third place in the European Open in 2005, Soukup had his most successful year in 2007 when he won the European Championships and lost to Ewerton Teixeira in the final of the 9th Kyokushin World Open. Beginning in 2008, he embarked on a career in kickboxing which included a stint in K-1.
Jan Soukup began his karate training in Shotokan at the age of eleven before moving to Kagoshima, Japan in April 2001 to study Kyokushin in an uchi-deshi program. After training for four years and attaining the rank of second dan black belt, which he earned by completing a twenty-man kumite among other tests, he returned to the Czech Republic and opened his own Kyokushin dojo in August 2005.
During this period, Soukup also achieved respectable finishes in numerous tournaments; in 2003, he finished in third place in the +90 kg/198 lb division at the 17th European Kyokushin Championships, in 2004 he won the 21st All-Japan Kyokushin Championships at +90 kg/198 lb and 2005 saw him take bronze at the 5th Kyokushin European Open and silver at the 21st European Kyokushin Championships.
Soukup had his most successful year in 2007 when he won the 21st European Kyokushin Championships at +90 kg/198 lb and finished as runner-up in the 9th edition of most prestigious tournament in the sport, the Kyokushin World Open. He avenged his loss to Arthur Hovhannisyan, who beat him in the final of the European Championships back in 2005, in the semi-finals before losing out to Ewerton Teixeira via low kick ippon in the final.
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