Denisa Rosolová

Denisa Rosolová
Denisa Rosolová at the World Championships in Moscow 2013
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	21st August 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Karviná ,  Czechoslovakia
size	173 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	400 m hurdles , long jump , heptathlon
Best performance	54.25 s, 6.68 m, 6104 points
society	AK SSK Vítkovice
Trainer	Martina Blažková
status	resigned
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 2 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European championships silver Helsinki 2012 400 m hurdles bronze Helsinki 2012 4 × 400 m  European Indoor Championships bronze Birmingham 2007 6.64 m gold Paris 2011 400 m bronze Gothenburg 2013 4 × 400 m  Junior World Championships gold Grosseto 2004 6.61 m  Youth World Championships silver Sherbrooke 2003 6.40 m
last change: November 21, 2017

Denisa Rosolová (born Ščerbová * 21st August 1986 in Karviná ) is a former Czech athlete whose main disciplines of long jump and heptathlon were until the 400-meter and 400-meter hurdles changed. She was European indoor champion in 2011 on the flat course and vice-European champion in 2012 over the hurdles.

Athletic career

In 2004 Rosolová was junior world champion in the long jump and was able to qualify in this discipline for the Olympic Games in Athens , but was eliminated in the qualification. In the heptathlon of the European Championships in 2006 , she gave up injured. In 2007 she won the bronze medal in the long jump at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham , but did not get beyond the preliminary round at the World Championships in Osaka .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing , she gave up in the heptathlon after two disciplines and failed in the qualification of the long jump competition. In 2009 she was tenth in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Turin . At the World Indoor Championships in 2010 , Rosolová won the bronze medal with the Czech 4 x 400 meter relay . In Barcelona she reached the finals over 400 meters at the European Championships and was fifth.

In 2011 Rosolová was European Indoor Champion with a personal best in Paris . At the world championships in the same year, she reached seventh place with the relay. In 2012 she took sixth place at the World Indoor Championships . In the open air season she started at the European Championships in Helsinki over the 400 meter hurdles and won the silver medal and also the bronze medal with the Czech relay. Shortly thereafter, she took seventh place at the Olympic Games in London over the hurdles and with the relay.

In March 2013 Rosolová won the bronze medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden . At the World Championships in Moscow she reached the semifinals in the hurdles and was eliminated with the Czech relay in the preliminary round. In 2014 she reached the semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot and just barely missed a medal at the European Championships in Zurich as fourth over the hurdles. In 2015 Rosolová finished sixth over 400 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Prague and finished fourth in the relay. At the World Championships in Beijing , she reached the semifinals again , as well as at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2017 Rosolová took part in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , but was eliminated there in the preliminary round. She fell due to a bump of the eventual winner Floria Gueï and had to be carried out of the hall with minor injuries.

In 2008 she married the Czech tennis player Lukáš Rosol . The marriage was divorced again in 2011, but Rosolová continues under her new name. In 2017 she received a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, the Czech decathlete Adam Sebastian Helcelet, at the Czech sports gala . At the end of November, Rosolová announced her pregnancy and the end of her career.

Personal best

(As of November 21, 2017)

• 400 meter hurdles: 54.24 s, June 29, 2012, Helsinki
• 400 meters: 50.84 s, May 31, 2011, Ostrava
  • Hall: 51.73 s, March 5, 2011, Paris
• Long jump: 6.68 m, June 25, 2004, Plzeň
  • Hall: 6.64 m, February 6, 2005, Bratislava
• Heptathlon: 6104 points, June 19, 2008, Kladno
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4632 points, 3rd February 2008, Sheffield

Web links

Commons : Denisa Rosolová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Denisa Rosolová in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the Czech Athletics Federation
• Denisa Rosolová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/svet-hvezd/108005/atletka-denisa-a-tenista-lukas-rosolovi-se-rozvadi.html
2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash-News of the day - Denisa Rosolova: pregnancy, wedding, end of career  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, dated November 21, 2017, accessed November 21, 2017