Eleonor Berka comes from a Czech aristocracy family and his heritage dates back to XIV century. One of his ancestors was the Bohemian Knight Hynek Berka z Dube who built a Kokorin castle in 1320.
When Eleonor became interested in cycling his wealthy parents hired a personal trainer for him and financed training camps in Mallorca or Tenerife, places where professional bike riders train. Thanks to this approach Eleonor was put on a professional training programe right from the beggining which helped him to develop his climbing, sprinting and downhill skills.
At the age of 22 Eleonor signed up a contract with top Polish pro team AnnoDomini and settled in Poland fro good. He feels good there, Warsaw is not far from his home town Prague and Polish ladies are as beautiful as Czech ladies.
Professionally he has quickly proved to become one of the best downhillers in the world...
Read moreEleonor Berka comes from a Czech aristocracy family and his heritage dates back to XIV century. One of his ancestors was the Bohemian Knight Hynek Berka z Dube who built a Kokorin castle in 1320.
When Eleonor became interested in cycling his wealthy parents hired a personal trainer for him and financed training camps in Mallorca or Tenerife, places where professional bike riders train. Thanks to this approach Eleonor was put on a professional training programe right from the beggining which helped him to develop his climbing, sprinting and downhill skills.
At the age of 22 Eleonor signed up a contract with top Polish pro team AnnoDomini and settled in Poland fro good. He feels good there, Warsaw is not far from his home town Prague and Polish ladies are as beautiful as Czech ladies.
Professionally he has quickly proved to become one of the best downhillers in the world, winning both Top Division and World Tour races. He was also wearing Czech national champion jersey several times and is one of the most successful Czech procyclist ever.
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