Kateřina Emmons

Kateřina Emmons (2008)

Kateřina Emmons , née Kůrková (born November 17, 1983 in Pilsen ) is a Czech sports shooter. She became Olympic champion in the 10 m air rifle shooting in Beijing in 2008 .

Career

Kůrková began her sporting career as a swimmer. It was not until 1997 that she started shooting . She is trained by her father Petr Kůrka , himself a two-time world champion. Kůrková was voted young athlete of the year in the Czech Republic in 2002 . Kůrková celebrated her first major international success in 2002 when she became world champion in 10 m air rifle shooting in Lahti, Finland, at the age of 19 . She was able to confirm this success in March 2004 in Győr at the European Championships for compressed air weapons. There she won the European title after a duel with the German Sonja Pfeilschifter .

At the Summer Olympics in Athens , Kůrková won a bronze medal with an air rifle . In the competition on August 14, 2004 she was after the qualification with 398 rings behind the Russian Lyubow Galkina . In the end, she finished third with 501.1 rings behind the Chinese Du Li and Galkina. With her German club SG Coburg from 1354, she became German team champion in 2008. Their biggest success from the Czech Republic at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games of Beijing , where they in the 10 m air rifle shooting with 503.5 rings and a new Olympic record won the gold medal. Four years later in London she missed another medal in fourth place by one place. She is married to the American marksman Matthew Emmons .

Web links

Emmons on the IOC website ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Česká střelkyně Emmons je olympijskou vítězkou! ( Czech ) Mlada Fronta dnes. August 9, 2008. Retrieved August 9, 2008.