Vladimír Prorok

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Vladimír Prorok (born July 28, 1929 in Poštorná , † June 8, 2014 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovakian gymnast and trainer.

Success as an active person

At the first European gymnastics championships in 1955 in Frankfurt am Main, Prorok was European champion on the ground and vice-European champion on the rings .

Coaching career

As coach of Czechoslovakia made Prorok since 1958 for a national high-flying gymnastics, the 1960 success of the bars Olympic champion from Rome, Eva Bosáková and then in the seven Olympic victories of Věra Čáslavská at the Olympic Games in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City (1968) culminated. In 1981 the gymnastics supervisor of the DTB, Hans-Jürgen Zacharias, brought Vladimir Prorok to Germany as national coach . Together with his wife Alena Proroková (née Tintěrová), who was considered a top beam trainer, Prorok created more professional structures in German female gymnastics, a. a. through the internat-like accommodation of the young gymnasts in the Frankfurt am Main performance base.

Although the sporting success came with eighth place in the team classification at the 1983 World Cup in Budapest and fourth place at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Prorok had to deal with resistance from the environment, especially from some exercise bikes Gymnasts, but also from functionaries of the German Gymnastics Federation who are active in sports . After the German team finished eleventh at the World Cup in Montreal, the DTB released him from his duties in early 1987. His successor was Norbert Kuhn, who only led the World Cup squad in Rotterdam in 15th place and thus clearly missed the team qualification for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Personal

Most recently, Prorok lived with his wife Alena as a pensioner in Prague and devoted himself to his hobby, gardening.

Honors

Spring 2009: Award of the "Tibi Gracias" medal from the National Czech Olympic Committee

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Prorok, Vladimír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak gymnast and gymnastics instructor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Poštorná
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2014
Place of death Prague