Radka Kovaříková

Radka Kovaříková
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	February 26, 1975
place of birth	Brno
size	161 cm
Weight	47 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	René Novotný
Trainer	Irina Rodnina, Ivan Rezek
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships silver Oakland 1992 Couples gold Birmingham 1995 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Dortmund 1995 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix competitions 0 8th 4th

Radka Kovaříková (born February 26, 1975 in Brno ) is a former Czech figure skater who started in pair skating .

From 1990 Kovaříková ran alongside René Novotný . In 1992 they won their first medal at their second joint World Cup. In Oakland they became vice world champions behind Natalja Mischkutjonok and Artur Dmitrijew . It was the first world championship medal for a Czech couple since Věra Suchánková and Zdeněk Doležal won silver in 1958 . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville they failed to achieve a medal in fourth and at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer they finished sixth. After four fourth places in a row, the couple won their first and only European championship medal in Dortmund in 1995 , when they became vice European champions behind Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer . However, their greatest success experienced Kovaříková and Novotný at the following World Cup. In Birmingham , the pair, trained by Irina Rodnina , became world champions. They are the only Czech pair skating world champions in history.

After winning the title, Radka Kovaříková and René Novotný ended their amateur careers, got married and switched to professionals. In 1995 and 1997 they became professional world champions, they also appeared on Stars on Ice and can still be seen in ice shows around the world.

Results

Pair skating

(with René Novotný )

Competition / year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
winter Olympics			4th		6th
World championships	8th.		2.	4th	5.	1.
European championships	6th	4th	4th	4th	4th	2.
Czech championships					1.

Web links

• Radka Kovaříková in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )