Jaroslava Jehličková

Jaroslava Jehličková (born March 24, 1942 ) is a former athlete from the ČSSR. She was the first woman to win the 1,500 meter run in an international championship . With a height of 1.67 m, her competition weight was 54 kg.

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966 , Jaroslava Jehličková was registered in the 800-meter run , but did not appear in the preliminary run. In 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico City, she ran 2: 08.96 minutes, but was eliminated in the semi-finals.

In 1969 at the European Championships in Athens, the 1500 meter run was on the program of an international championship for the first time. In the run-up, the Italian Paola Pigni had beaten the Dutch Maria Gommers' world record with 4: 12.4 minutes . Jaroslava Jehličková arrived with a best time of 4: 20.2 minutes. The two prelims in Athens were won by Pigni and Gommers, Jehličková qualified sixth in their prelim in 4: 28.4 minutes for the final. In the final, a very fast race developed because the Dutch Ilja Keizerkept the pace high for her compatriot Gommers. Gommers and Pigni were still ahead in the final corner, but then Jehličková surprised everyone with their final sprint and won a new world record of 4: 10.7 minutes ahead of Gommers and Pigni, both of whom remained below the old world record, and Ljudmila Bragina came fourth with the Soviet national record . With the exception of Keizer-Laman, each of the eight first-placed runners set a new national record.

Jehličková's world record lasted two years until the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki. There Karin Burneleit from the GDR undercut the world record in 4: 09.6 minutes and won the title. Jehličková finished seventh in this race in 4: 14.8 minutes.

In Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games , Ljudmila Bragina then ran new world records in the preliminary, intermediate and final. In the intermediate run, in which Bragina ran 4: 05.1 minutes, Jehličková was last in 4: 18.1 minutes and was eliminated.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV