Early years Březina was initially interested in ice hockey after watching the
1998 Winter Olympics, but his father advised him to learn to skate first, and after a few months, he dropped hockey to focus on figure skating. Březina first landed a triple
Salchow at the age of 12, and a triple
Axel at 15. In practice, he has worked on a quad
toe loop and quad Salchow. He trained in his hometown of
Brno with coach Petr Starec and in
Oberstdorf, Germany with
Karel Fajfr.
2007–2008 season Březina won the 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy over compatriot and reigning champion,
Tomáš Verner. Two weeks later, he won his first Junior Grand Prix medal, a silver, in
Chemnitz. Březina placed sixteenth at his first
European Championships. He missed training time because of a broken wrist but was able to compete at the
World Junior Championships, where he was fifth.
2008–2009 season Březina won both his junior Grand Prix events but was forced to miss the Junior Grand Prix Final and the Czech national championships due to a right knee injury that required surgery. He returned in time for the
2009 Europeans, where he finished tenth, and then set a new personal best at the
2009 Junior Worlds to win the silver medal behind
Adam Rippon.
2009–2010 season Březina debuted on the senior Grand Prix circuit, finishing fourth at the
2009 Skate Canada International. He won the bronze medal at
2009 NHK Trophy and defeated
Tomáš Verner to win the Czech Championship. He finished 4th at the
2010 European Championships. At the
2010 Olympics in
Vancouver he came in tenth. Competing at his first senior
World Championships, he earned a fourth-place finish with a new personal best score of 236.06.
2010–2011 season Březina was forced to withdraw from the
2010 Cup of China after undergoing surgery for a varicose vein in his abdomen. He later withdrew from the
2010 Trophée Eric Bompard as well. He took silver behind Verner at the Czech Championships. At the
2011 European Championships, Březina placed second in the short program but dropped to eighth overall following the free skate. At the
2011 World Championships, he successfully landed two quads, a
Salchow and a
toe loop, in the long program – his first quads landed in competition – but fell on two jumps toward the end of the program. He finished fourth at the event for the second straight year.
2011–2012 season Březina experienced some boot problems during the off-season. He trained mainly in Oberstdorf. He began his
season at
2011 Nebelhorn Trophy where he won the silver medal. Skaters who had placed in the top six at the 2011 Worlds were given a newly introduced option of competing at three
Grand Prix events. Březina elected to do so and was assigned to
2011 Skate America,
2011 Trophée Eric Bompard, and
2011 Cup of Russia. At Skate America, he won the short program by 8.39 points and placed third in the free skate to win the gold medal overall. Březina won the bronze medal in France, which qualified him for the
Grand Prix Final. He then placed fourth in the Cup of Russia. He was sixth at the Grand Prix Final. At the
2012 World Championships, Březina picked up a small silver medal for the short program and finished sixth overall after the free skate. In April 2012, he changed coaches from Starec and Fajfr to
Viktor Petrenko. He trained at the Ice House in
Hackensack, New Jersey.
2012–2013 season Březina finished sixth at
2012 Skate America and won the bronze medal at the
2012 Rostelecom Cup. He withdrew from the Czech Championships due to a fever. He dislocated his shoulder during practice on 21 January at the
2013 European Championships but went on to win bronze, his first European medal.
2013–2014 season In February 2014, Březina placed tenth at the
Winter Olympics in
Sochi, Russia. His next event was the
2014 World Championships in
Saitama, Japan. He withdrew after the short program on 26 March, having pulled ligaments in his right ankle on the triple flip take-off. His ankle was immediately put into a cast, and he recovered in two weeks. Due to the high cost of training in the United States, he decided in June 2014 to rejoin Karel Fajfr in Oberstdorf.
2014–2015 season Březina began the season with two silver medals at his Challenger events, the
Golden Spin of Zagreb and
Nebelhorn Trophy/ After finishing seventh at the
2014 Skate Canada International, he won the bronze medal at the
2014 Rostelecom Cup. He placed fifth at the
2015 European Championships and fifteenth at the
2015 World Championships.
2015–2016 season His first event of the season was the 2015
Lombardia Trophy, which was not a Challenger event for that particular season. Following a sixth-place finish at
Nebelhorn, Brezina placed eighth and seventh at these two Grand Prix assignments,
Skate Canada International and the
NHK Trophy. He went on to place tenth at
Europeans and ninth at
Worlds. In the spring of 2016, Březina decided to train with
Rafael Arutyunyan in
California.
2016–2017 season Březina placed fourth at
Skate Canada International and tenth at the
Cup of China. In December 2016, he placed first in the short program at the
Four Nationals; he withdrew after injuring his arm during the free skate. He placed twelfth at
Europeans. Březina twisted his ankle three weeks before the
2017 World Championships in
Helsinki. He finished eighteenth at the event in Finland, earning a spot for the Czech Republic at the
2018 Winter Olympics.
2017–2018 season Beginning with two events on the Challenger Series, Březina placed ninth at the
U.S. International Classic and sixth at the
Finlandia Trophy. He went on to place sixth at
Skate Canada International and ninth at
NHK Trophy. Following an eighth-place finish at
Europeans, Březina competed at his
third Olympic Games in
Pyeongchang,
South Korea. He placed sixteenth. The season concluded at the
2018 World Championships in
Milan,
Italy, where he placed tenth, setting a new personal best in the free skate.
2018–2019 season Březina began the season with a silver medal at the
2018 U.S. International Classic, his first Challenger Series medal in four years. He followed that up with a silver medal at the
2018 Skate America event, his first Grand Prix medal since his bronze at Rostelecom four years earlier. At his second Grand Prix event, the
2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki, he set new personal bests in the short program and overall score to win a second silver medal. His results qualified him for the
Grand Prix Final, only the second time in his career he had done so and the first time in seven years. Březina placed fourth at the Final, finishing 8.23 points behind
Cha Jun-hwan after doubling a jump in his short program and falling on a quad Salchow in the free skate. At the European Championships he placed eighth in the short program and moved up to seventh overall after placing sixth in the free program. Finishing his season at the
2019 World Championships, Březina placed eighth in the short program. He remained in eighth place following the free skate, despite a single fall on a triple flip attempt.
2019–2020 season Březina opted not to begin his season with a
Challenger event, instead competing at the 2019
Shanghai Trophy, where he placed fourth. Returning to
Skate America, he placed fifth in the short program despite jump errors. After doubling numerous jumps in his free skate, he fell to eleventh place. He was ninth at the
2019 Rostelecom Cup. Competing at the
2020 European Championships, Březina placed first in the short program despite performing only a quad-double in his combination jump, winning a gold small medal. He said he was undecided about whether it would be his final competition. He fell twice in the free skate on quad Salchow attempts, placing eleventh in that segment and falling to seventh place overall. He was scheduled to compete at the
2020 World Championships in
Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–2021 season Březina was assigned to compete at the
2020 Skate America but withdrew due to a fall in training. He was allowed to submit virtual competitive programs to the
2021 Four National Championships, winning the gold medal. His only live event of the season was the
2021 World Championships in
Stockholm, where he placed nineteenth. This result qualified one berth for the Czech Republic at the
2022 Winter Olympics in
Beijing.
2021–2022 season Březina opened his season with a win at the
2021 U.S. International Classic. Following the results of the
2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, he was announced as part of the
Czech Olympic team, this time alongside his sister
Eliška. Competing on the
Grand Prix at the
2021 Skate America, he finished in sixth. At the
2021 Rostelecom Cup, he finished in tenth place. Discussing his results afterward, he cited his work with a mental coach as having improved his mindset, noting, "I wish I would have worked with a mental coach when I was younger. Maybe my career would have looked different." At the
2022 European Championships, Březina had a poor short program and finished in fifteenth place in that segment. He was fifth in the free skate, rising to tenth place overall. Březina began the
2022 Winter Olympics as the Czech entry in the men's short program of the
Olympic team event. He placed seventh in the segment, securing four points for the Czech team. They ultimately did not advance to the second phase of the competition, finishing eighth. In the individual event, he placed twenty-fifth in the short program, not advancing to the free program. He announced his retirement shortly after the event. == Programs ==