Jarmila Kratochvílová

Jarmila Kratochvílová
Jarmila Kratochvílová in 2010
nation	Czechoslovakia
birthday	26th January 1951 (age 69)
place of birth	Golčův Jeníkov , Czechoslovakia
size	171 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Sprint , middle distance run
Best performance	47.99 s ( 400 m ) 1: 53.28 min ( 800 m )
society	VŠ Praha
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 2 × 0 × Indoor European Championships 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Moscow 1980 400 m  World championships gold Helsinki 1983 400 m gold Helsinki 1983 800 m silver Helsinki 1983 4 × 400 m European championships silver Athens 1982 400 m silver Athens 1982 4 × 400 m European Indoor Championships gold Grenoble 1981 400 m gold Milan 1982 400 m gold Budapest 1983 400 m

Jarmila Kratochvílová ( listen ^{? / I} ; born January 26, 1951 in Golčův Jeníkov ) is a former Czech athlete and Olympian (1980).

Career

Jarmila Kratochvílová ran the 800 meters in 1: 53.28 minutes in Munich on July 26, 1983 . This achievement is the oldest officially recognized and still existing outdoor world record in athletics (as of September 29, 2019; only junior world records are older). In the same year, she also set a world record over 400 meters with 47.99 s , being the first woman to run under 48 seconds. Since then, this time has only been undercut once, when Marita Koch completed the stadium lap in 47.60 seconds in October 1985.

After winning an Olympic silver medal in Moscow in 1980, she became double world champion in 1983. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles she could because of the boycott not attend the Eastern Bloc countries.

Jarmila Kratochvílová works as a trainer today.

Doping allegation

Because of her physique, her doping was reported . When asked about doping, she told the FAZ in 2011 that she saw herself neither as a doping victim nor as a politician. She was not forced to do anything. She was given injections once a week. These supposedly contained vitamin B12 .

Greatest successes

• Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow: Silver over 400 m
• 1983 World Championships in Helsinki: gold over 400 m and 800 m, silver in the 4 × 400 m relay
• European Indoor Championships: Gold 1981, 1982, 1983 over 400 m and Gold 1984 over 200 m

Awards

• 1983: Europe's sportswoman of the year in the poll of the Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP) press agency
• 1983: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year in the poll of the Union of European Sports Journalists (UEPS)
• 2013: Medal of Merit 1st Class of the Czech Republic

See also

• Outdoor athletics world records

Web links

• Jarmila Kratochvílová in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jarmila Kratochvílová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jarmila Kratochvilova: The last tank , portrait by Michael Reinsch in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 26, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ slate.com: Unbreakable, The women's track and field record book needs to be expunged. by Edward McClelland, dated August 25, 2011
2. ↑ taz.de: A time as a memorial by Thoas Purschke, from July 27, 2013
3. ↑ Information on http://zpravy.idnes.cz/