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Věra Čáslavská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvjɛra ˈtʃaːslafskaː]; 3 May 1942 – 30 August 2016) was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.
Věra Čáslavská, provdaná Věra Odložilová (3. května 1942 Praha – 30. srpna 2016 Praha) byla česká sportovní gymnastka, trenérka a sportovní funkcionářka, reprezentantka Československa, sedminásobná olympijská vítězka, čtyřnásobná mistryně světa, jedenáctinásobná mistryně Evropy a čtyřnásobná Sportovkyně ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Věra Čáslavská (born May 3, 1942, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]—died August 30, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech gymnast who won a total of 34 medals, including 22 golds, at the Olympic Games and at world and European championships in the 1950s and ’60s.
Oct 20, 2018 · Vera Caslavska won seven gold and four silver Olympic medals at three different Olympic Games. By Tom Reynolds. BBC Sport. Mexico City, 1968. A newly-crowned Olympic champion is about to make...
Biography. Attractive, vivacious and talented, Vera Caslavska won four Olympic golds. Her victories were dramatic given that she defeated Soviet gymnasts shortly after Soviet tanks had invaded her homeland.
Aug 31, 2016 · Czech athlete Vera Caslavska celebrates one of her triumphs at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. She is still the only gymnast to have won Olympic gold medals in every individual event. Print...
Aug 25, 2017 · Věra Čáslavská is one of only two gymnasts in history (the other being Russian Larisa Latynina) to have won the gold medal for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Individual All-Around in consecutive Olympic games (1964 and 1968).
Ze své premiéry pod pěti kruhy v Římě 1960 si Věra Čáslavská i kvůli zdravotním problémům odvezla "jen" stříbro ze soutěže družstev. O čtyři roky později odjížděla do Tokia jako korunní princezna světové gymnastiky za sovětskou závodnicí Larisou Latyninovou, vracela se jako královna.
Aug 30, 2016 · Attractive, vivacious and talented, Věra Čáslavská of Czechoslovakia was the outstanding gymnast at the 1964 and 1968 Games. In Tokyo she won three gold medals and a silver, winning the all-around, on the balance beam, and the horse vault, and finishing second in the team event.
This is the story of Czech gymnastic Věra Čáslavská, whose 1968 protest curtailed her sporting career. How was Věra Čáslavská a champion gymnast? Věra Čáslavská was born in 1942 in Prague.
