HOMEPAGE

Discover CZ
 
Facts about the Czech Republic
 
Present-day celebrities

 

Dana Zátopková

 
photo:  ()
 

(born 1922)

 
 
A javelin thrower and the wife of Emil Zátopek. She played handball for a long time and even won a championship title in this collective sport in 1949. She was already national champion in the javelin at this time although she had not been practicing this sport for long. Later on during her successful athletics career, when she competed successively in the colours of Brno, Gottwaldov, Sparta, Dukla and the Red Star, she broke the Czechoslovakian record 17 times. Her throws went from 38.07 m in 1948 to 56.67 m ten years later.

The peak of her career came at the Olympic games in Helsinki where she threw 50.47 metres. She also came first at the European Championships in Bern and achieved the same again four years later in Stockholm. A physically well-equipped athlete, she participated in two more Olympics, in 1956 in Melbourne, where she came fourth, and in Rome in 1960, where she won her last Olympic medal, a silver. Dana Zátopková was awarded the Olympic Order in 1988 for her contribution to athletics and the Olympic spirit.

Links

 
Author:
 
Added: 04.01.2010
 
 
 

Related articles

 
Present-day celebrities
 
 
 

Pavel Janák (1882–1956)

Pavel Janák, a modernist...

 
 
Present-day celebrities
 
 
 

GRATIAS AGIT Award 2012

On 1 June 2012 in Czernin Palace, the first vice-premier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech...

 
 
Present-day celebrities
 
 
 

Puppeteer Jiří Trnka – 100th birthday...

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiří Trnka was included into the official UNESCO list of...

 
 
Present-day celebrities
 
 
 

Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012)

Josef Škoverecký was an internationally renowned writer, essayist and translator and one of the most...

 
 
Most favourite

History of Czech fine art

What happened in the realm of fine art at the very beginning of the Czech…

Climate

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country located in moderate geographical…

The most significant current discoveries

During the last decade, Czech science has made many revolutionary discoveries…

Czech language

The Czech language belongs to the group of West Slavic languages. From another…

 
Lifestyle in the Czech Republic
 
  Culture     Tradition     Gastronomy     Sport and leisure   Facts about the Czech Republic
 
  Economic facts     Cultural facts     History     Geography     Politics     Present-day celebrities     Famous historical figures   All articles
 
Links
 

 
 
 
 
 

More from 

 

Pavel Janák (1882–1956)

GRATIAS AGIT Award 2012

Museum Night Festival

Puppeteer Jiří Trnka – 100th birthday anniversary

Czech Grand Design 2011

 
All articles 
 
 
 

Facebook recent activity


 
 
 

Upcoming events

 
 
25/5/2012

Prague Food Festival 2012

 
more...