Jiří Raška (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈraʃka]; 4 February 1941 – 20 January 2012) was a Czechoslovakian ski jumper.

His father died of leukaemia when Jiří Raška was nine years old, leaving his mother to raise four children on her own.

"We were saying that children in Frenštát are born with skis on their feet,"[2] Raška said in the interview for Czech newspaper Lidové noviny.

There he watched Josef Matouš, who led after the first round and had an opportunity to become the second Czech individual Winter Olympic medalist, but ended up without a medal.

Czech writer Ota Pavel described his first jump in the normal hill event: "It was a beautiful flight in the infinite silence, that took short human age.

He added the silver medal in the large hill event, beaten only by Vladimir Beloussov of the Soviet Union.

At the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry, over a hundred thousand visitors came to see him jump.