Iva Zajíčková

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Iva Zajíčková, 2016

Iva Zajíčková , married Stafová (born March 9, 1948 in Brno - Královo Pole ) is a former Czechoslovak track cyclist and today's Czech local politician .

family

Iva Zajíčková is the daughter of Josef Zajíček from Vícemilice and his wife Otilie nee. Čermáková from Ždánice . Her maternal grandfather ran a tailoring shop in Ždánice. After the marriage, her parents moved to Slovakia, where their father worked in a Zbrojovka plant , and before the outbreak of World War II they returned to Ždánice, where their older sister Jitka was born in 1945. The following year the family moved to Brno. There is also a cycling track suitable for international competitions.

Athletic career

Iva Zajíčková was the dominant Czechoslovak track cyclist in the 1970s. From 1970 to 1978 she won seven podium places at UCI track world championships in sprint ; at the Track World Cup in 1971 in Varese , she was also third in the single pursuit . She has also won national titles several times.

The sprinter won two silver and four bronze medals at world championships in cycling. She was also eleven-time world champion on historical high and knee bikes. For her services to cycling, Zajíčková was awarded the titles "Master of Sports" and "Honored Master of Sports".

As an alpinist, she climbed Kilimanjaro twice and also conquered Mont Blanc and Pik Lenin .

Professional activity and political commitment

After completing her studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Brno University of Technology in 1975, Stafová worked as an electrical engineer. In 1980 she emigrated to Austria , which led to her career in cycling being broken off. After the Czechoslovakian Cyclists Association lodged a protest at the World Cycling Association UCI , the Austrian Cycling Association withdrew its support for the granting of citizenship, so that Stafová was not allowed to start for Austria, not even at the Olympic Games in Moscow. She then worked as a mountaineer.

After Stafová got her grandfather's house back in restitution, she moved from Vienna to Ždánice in 1995 to repair it. Since then, Iva Stafová has lived in Ždánice and soon became involved in local politics. Between 2006 and 2010 she was a council member, from 2010 to 2014 she was mayor of Ždánice ( Okres Hodonín ), and since then she has been working there again in the municipal council.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports Hall of Ždánice on jizni-morava.cz , accessed on June 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Sbírala medaile na kole, pak zdolávala Pamír , Denik.cz, online at: brnensky.denik.cz/
  3. ↑ Iva Zajíčková , short report in the communication organ of the Brno-center district Zpravodaj městské části Brno-střed , March 2018, p. 15, online at: brno-stred.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Zajíčková, Iva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stafová-Zajíčková, Iva (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno-Královo Pole