Jan Weber

Jan Weber

Jan Weber - Freestyle footbag
Personal information
Born (1986-08-28) 28 August 1986
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Website www.honzaweber.com
Sport
Country  Czech Republic
Sport Footbag and Freestyle football
Medal record
Representing  Czech Republic
Men's Footbag
IFPA World Footbag Championships
2013 Montreal singles
2012 Warsaw singles
2011 Helsinki singles
2008 Prague doubles
2007 Orlando doubles
2005 Helsinki doubles
2004 Montreal doubles
2006 Frankfurt singles
2005 Helsinki singles
2004 Montreal singles
2009 Berlin singles
European Footbag Championships
2012 Aachen singles
2010 Brussels singles
2008 Montpellier doubles
2005 Wroclaw doubles
2004 Copenhagen doubles
2007 Vienna singles
2005 Wroclav singles
2004 Copenhagen singles
2003 Frankfurt singles
2002 Budapest singles
2008 Montpellier singles

Jan Weber (also Honza Weber, born 28 August 1986) is multiple World and European Freestyle footbag champion. He has been playing footbag since 2001 and since 2002 competed at more than 200 professional footbag events and performed at more than 2000 public events. He had gained his Master degree at Czech University of Economics in Prague and later became professional freestyler. The biggest successes Weber achieved are 4 World champion titles in doubles Freestyle footbag and 3 World champion titles in singles discipline in a row in years 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Weber has also started to play Freestyle football in 2010. He was a member of the organising crew of the first annual European Freestyle football in 2010 and first annual World Freestyle football championships in 2011 & 2012, all in Prague. He finished 5th at both World championships in one of the events called Sick3. He won the Sick3 event at 2012 Czech Freestyle football championship and became winner of the Czech cup in 2013.

In 2010 he took part in Czech TV talent show called "Talentmania", where he managed to advance into the semifinals and perform a flawless routine there. A year later he entered another Czech Got Talent show with his Freestyle footbag doubles partner Václav Klouda. They abosulutelly amazed the jury members and also managed to advanced further in the competition as well as in 2012, when he entered the TV show with his freestyle team called "Freestyle Union". In September 2011 Weber won the first annual Czech and Slovak Skittling championships. Later in 2011 he also won The Prague`s University talent show with his Freestyle Union team (footbag, yo-yo, Freestyle frisbee and Freestyle football. The finals of the show took place in the Lucerna Palace in the centre of Prague with more than 5000 spectators. In 2010 Honza (which is a version of Czech name Jan and his international nickname) met one of his heroes Tony Hawk. Honza performed in Hollywood at Tony Hawk`s charity event "Stand up for Skateparks". Most of his charity activities are connected with Czech UNICEF organisation.

Honza also holds more than 20 Czech and World freestyle records. In 2014 he became a face for the autumn TIKI-TAKA campaign of Cruyff Classics, sports clothing brand named after the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff. In 2015 he was featured in the Nissan "Truckerball" commercial for The UEFA Champions League. His skills can recognised in various other commercial spots, where he performs freestyle moves with objects such as cell phone, golf ball, orange, candy etc. One of his official records is performing 20+ tricks with stopwatch during the Czech record festival in 2013.

Awards and titles

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2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

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