Dana Zátopková
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Born | 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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Representing Czechoslovakia | |||||
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
External links
- In-depth article from European Athletics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-02-24)
- Dana Ingrova-Zatopkova at Olympics.com
- Dana Ingrová-Zátopková at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1922 births
- Living people
- People from Karviná
- Czechoslovak female javelin throwers
- Czech female javelin throwers
- Olympic athletes of Czechoslovakia
- Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Czech athletics biography stubs
- Czechoslovak Olympic medalist stubs