Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová

Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová
portrait
birthday	October 6, 1975
place of birth	Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
size	1.86 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Player
societies
1999–2000 2000–2006 2007–2009 2009–2011 since 2011	VK Královo Pole Brno Telekom Post Vienna Iraklis Kifissia Athens VK Prostějov PVK Přerov
successes
2005 - Austrian champion 2006 - Austrian champion 2010 - Czech champion
beach volleyball
Partner	1996–2006 Eva Celbová 2007 Petra Novotná 2008 Tereza Tobiášová 2009 Lenka Háječková 2010–2011 Tereza Tobiášová 2015 Lenka Háječková
World ranking	Position 59 (November 2011)
successes
1996 - European Champion 1997 - European Champion 1998 - European Champion 1999 - European Champion 2000 - Olympic ninth 2001 - World Cup third 2002 - European third 2004 - Olympic ninth
As of July 2, 2020

Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová (born October 6, 1975 in Olomouc ) is a Czech volleyball and beach volleyball player . She was twice European champion on clay, won bronze at the World Cup and took part in two Olympic tournaments.

Career

volleyball

The setter played for Královo Pole in her home country in the 1999/2000 season . She then moved to Austria, where she won the national championship twice with Telekom Post Vienna in 2005 and 2006 . After a year break she went to Greece to Iraklis Kifissia Athens . In 2009 Nováková returned home and was Czech champion in her first season with VK Prostějov . In 2011 she moved to the league competitor PVK Přerov .

beach volleyball

Nováková completed her first international beach tournament with Eva Celbová in 1996 . In the same year she and her partner in Pescara became European champion by beating the German duo Bühler / Müsch in the final . The duo achieved several top-clay placements in open tournaments the next year and took part in the first World Cup in Los Angeles , where it was enough to come in ninth. At the European Championships in Riccione , the defending champions won bronze this time. The next continental tournament in Rhodes they won again. The following year Celbová / Nováková finished 17th at the World Championships in Marseille , while they won their next medal in third at the European Championships in Palma .

They finished the Olympic tournament in Sydney in ninth place after a defeat in the round of 16 against the Japanese Takahashi / Saiki . The 2001 World Cup was more successful ; in Klagenfurt, the Czechs finished third with a win against the Americans Youngs / Fontana . In 2002 in Basel there was the third European bronze medal. The next two tournaments in 2003 in Alanya and 2004 in Timmendorfer Strand ended for Celbová / Nováková in ninth and fourth places. Between these two competitions they played at the 2003 World Cup and had to admit defeat to eventual world champions Walsh / May-Treanor in three sets in the round of 16 . At their second Olympic tournament in Athens in 2004 Celbová / Nováková were eliminated again in the round of 16 against McPeak / Youngs .

After two open tournaments in 2006, the long-term partners separated. At the 2007 European Championships, Nováková and her new teammate Petra Novotná lost to the German duos Goller / Ludwig and Holtwick / Semmler . Two years later, Nováková and Lenka Háječková lost the round of 16 at the World Cup in Stavanger against Austrian sister Doris and Stefanie Schwaiger . Since 2010 Nováková has formed a duo with Tereza Tobiášová , who was at her side in 2008. At the 2011 World Cup, Nováková / Tobiášová were eliminated in the first main round against the Brazilians Talita / Antonelli .

Web links

• Profile at FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo at life.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings November 2011