Dana Zátopková
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Dana Zátopková (Script error: No such module "IPA".; née Ingrová Script error: No such module "IPA"., 19 September 1922 – 13 March 2020)[1][2][3] was a Czech javelin thrower who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Biography
At the 1952 Olympic Games, she won the gold medal in the javelin throw event at the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m),[4] and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958.
On 1 June 1958, she became the oldest woman in the sport of athletics to break a world record, aged 35 years, 255 days, when she threw 55.73 metres.[5]
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 is not clear how much this helped, they did receive a permit a few days later.[6]
Achievements
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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
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- 1922 births
- 2020 deaths
- Sportspeople from Karviná
- Athletes from the Moravian-Silesian Region
- Czechoslovak women javelin throwers
- Czech women javelin throwers
- Olympic athletes for 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
- World record setters in the sport of athletics
- Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics
- Czechoslovak Athletics Championships winners