Hana Mašková

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Hana Mašková figure skating
nation CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
birthday September 26, 1949
place of birth Prague
size 168 cm
Weight 58 kg
date of death March 31, 1972
Place of death near Vouvray, France
Career
discipline Single run
society VŠ Prague
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
EM medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Grenoble 1968 Ladies
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Vienna 1967 Ladies
bronze Geneva 1968 Ladies
ISU European figure skating championships
silver Ljubljana 1967 Ladies
gold Västerås 1968 Ladies
silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1969 Ladies
 

Hana Mašková (born September 26, 1949 in Prague , † March 31, 1972 at Vouvray in France ) was a Czech figure skater who started in a single run for Czechoslovakia . She is the European champion from 1968 .

As a child, Mašková spent many days in Prague's Štvanice Stadium . Coach Karel Glogar , who had already coached Alena Vrzáňová at the beginning of her career, recognized her talent. Mašková's next coach was Jaroslav Sadílek , before she was trained by Míla Nováková from 1963 . In addition to her daily training, she learned to play the piano and the German language.

Mašková played her first European championship back in 1963 . A year later, at the age of 15, she took part in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and finished in fifteenth place. That year she also played her first world championship . From 1965 to 1969 Mašková was Czechoslovakian champion. She won her first international medals in 1967. In Ljubljana , she became vice European champion behind Gabriele Seyfert from the GDR. At the world championship she won the bronze medal behind the Americans Peggy Fleming and Seyfert. In the Olympic year 1968 Mašková became European champion in Västerås, Sweden . It was the only time in her career that she managed to beat Gaby Seyfert. At the World Championships in Geneva and the Olympic Games in Grenoble , she won the bronze medal, both times behind Fleming and Seyfert. To date, she is the only Czech woman to have won an Olympic medal in women's figure skating . In 1969 Mašková won her last medal with silver at the European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the World Cup she had to withdraw. Mašková was particularly considered a jumping talent, but she was also an elegant and artistically gifted runner.

In 1969, Hana Mašková ended her career with the amateurs and switched to the figure skating revue Holiday on Ice . Three years later, she was killed in a car accident near the town of Vouvray in France. Her grave is in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague. The Czech sculptor Jan Štursa made a statue of a winged female torso for Mašková's grave.

Results

Competition / year 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
winter Olympics 15th 3.
World championships 16. 13. 6th 3. 3. Z
European championships 15th 7th 4th 2. 1. 2.
Czechoslovak Championships 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. «Eisrevuestar Hana Maskova is dead» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 1, 1972, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. Ledová krása smutné krasobruslařky Hanky ​​Maškové ( Czech ) Rozhledna.webmagazin.cz. February 21, 2006.