Dana Zátopková
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Fryštát, Czechoslovakia | 19 September 1922|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dana Zátopková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdana ˈzaːtopkovaː]; née Ingrová [ˈɪŋɡrovaː], born 19 September 1922) is a Czech former javelin thrower. She won the gold medal for javelin in the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m), and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958. She also set a world record in 1958 (55.73 m) when she was 35, making her the oldest woman to break one in an outdoor athletics event.
Zátopková and her husband were the witnesses at the wedding ceremony of Olympic gold medalists Olga Fikotová and Harold Connolly in Prague in 1957. Emil spoke to the Czechoslovak president Antonín Zápotocký to request help in Olga getting a permit to marry Connolly. While it's not clear how much this helped, they surprisingly received a permit a few days later.[1]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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1948 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 7th | 39.94 m | |
1950 | European Championships | Brussels, Belgium | 5th | 41.34 m | |
1952 | Olympic Games | Helsinki, Finland | 1st | 50.47 m | |
1954 | European Championships | Bern, Switzerland | 1st | 52.91 m | |
1956 | Olympic Games | Melbourne, Australia | 4th | 49.83 m | |
1958 | European Championships | Stockholm, Sweden | 1st | 56.02 m | |
1960 | Olympic Games | Rome, Italy | 2nd | 53.78 m |
References
- Biography at zivotopisyonline.cz (in Czech)
External links
- In-depth article from European Athletics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-02-24)
- Dana Ingrova-Zatopkova at the International Olympic Committee
- Dana Ingrová-Zátopková at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archive)