Jiřina Pelcová

Jiřina Pelcová
Full name	Jiřina Pelcová-Adamičková
Association	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic
birthday	November 22, 1969
place of birth	Jablonec nad Nisou ,  Czechoslovakia
Career
World Cup victories	6th
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1989 Feistritz 3 × 7.5 km relay bronze 1992 Novosibirsk team gold 1993 Borovets 4 × 7.5 km relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. 1989/90
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 2 0 0

Jiřina Pelcová , née Adamičková (born November 22, 1969 in Jablonec nad Nisou , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech biathlete .

After the great dominance of the Norwegian biathletes in the World Cup and the Soviet biathletes at world championships in the 1980s, Adamičková surprisingly won the overall World Cup for Czechoslovakia in the 1989/90 season, ahead of the Norwegian Anne Elvebakk and the Russian Jelena Golowina . To date, this is the only place a Czech woman has placed among the top three athletes in the overall ranking. The first success of her career achieved Adamičková a season earlier, when she won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak relay at the 1989 World Championships .

At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Adamičková achieved fifth place in the sprint race, her best individual result at a major event. In the non-Olympic team race held as a world championship, she won her second bronze medal in 1992 after 1989. Together with Jana Kulhavá , Iveta Knížková and Eva Háková , Adamičková won the gold medal in the relay race at the 1993 World Championships . This was the first time that the gold medal in the relay race did not go to the Soviet Union , which was no longer at the start after the political collapse and whose successor team Russia won the bronze medal. The victory in the relay race was the first ever gold medal for the Czech Republic and until Kateřina Holubcová's victory in the individual in 2003 it was the only gold medal.

After she could no longer achieve the success of the early 1990s, Jiřina Pelcová, as Adamičková has been called since their wedding, ended her career at the end of the 1997/98 season.

Results in the biathlon world cup

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place						2	2
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	5	3			2	8th	18th
Scoring	8th	7th			2	9	26th
Starts	22nd	26th	2		2	9	61
Status : data incomplete

Web links

• Jiřina Pelcová in the database of the IBU (English)
• Jiřina Pelcová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neunerová prepísala biatlonovú históriu. Pravda.sk, March 16, 2008, accessed February 14, 2011 (Czech).