Dana Zátopková

Dana Zátopková (2007)

Dana Zátopková (born Ingrová ; born September 19, 1922 in Fryštát ; † March 13, 2020 in Prague , Czech Republic ) was a Czechoslovak javelin thrower . She became Olympic champion in 1952 and was the wife of long-distance runner Emil Zátopek (1922-2000).

Life

Zátopková was born in Fryštát . She grew up in Uherské Hradiště in Moravia , where she first learned handball and later athletics at high school . At the Olympic Games in 1948 she was seventh. After the Games, on October 24, 1948, she married Emil Zátopek, the current Olympic champion in the 10,000-meter run, who was born on the same day as she. In 1952 in Helsinki both spouses won Olympic gold almost at the same time. In 1956 in Melbourne Dana finished fourth, and in 1960 in Rome she won the silver medal.

She was also twice European champion: 1954 in Bern and 1958 in Stockholm .

In total, she was Republic Champion 13 times, she has achieved the Republic record 14 times, the European record twice and in 1958 the world record . From 1953 she worked as a trainer and was active as a national and international sports official until the end of her life. Zátopková died in Prague in March 2020 at the age of 97.

successes

Olympic games

• 1948 in London : Seventh with 39.64 m (under her maiden name Ingrová)
• 1952 in Helsinki : Gold with 50.47 m ahead of Alexandra Tschudina with 50.01 m and Jelena Gortschakowa with 49.76 m, both from the USSR
• 1956 in Melbourne : fourth with 49.83 m
• 1960 in Rome : silver with 53.78 m behind Elvīra Ozoliņa with 55.98 m and in front of Birutė Kalėdienė , both USSR

European championships

• 1950 in Brussels : fifth with 41.34 m
• 1954 in Bern : Gold with 52.91 m ahead of Virve Roolaid with 49.94 m and Nadeschda Konjajewa with 48.49 m, both USSR
• 1958 in Stockholm : Gold with 56.02 m ahead of Birute Zalogaitite (USSR) with 51.30 m and the German Jutta Neumann with 50.50 m

Placements on the world's best list

• 1954: 3rd (53.26 m)
• 1956: 5th (52.24 m)
• 1957: 2nd (53.80 m)
• 1960: 4th (55.74 m)
• 1961: 3rd (56.10 m)

Web links

• Extensive portrait of Dana Zátopková with pictures and videos from April 25, 2017, in Czech
• http://www.radio.cz/en/article/33656
• http://www.fitnesssports.com/mastersnews.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zemřela Dana Zátopková, olympijské vítězce a manželce Emila Zátopka bylo 97 let. Český rozhlas, March 13, 2020, accessed on May 21, 2020 (Czech). 
2. ↑ Na zámku Fryštát se také narodila Dana Zátopková