- Milena Duchková
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Medal record 
Milena DuchkováCompetitor for 
CzechoslovakiaWomen's Diving Olympic Games Gold 1968 Mexico City Platform Silver 1972 Munich Platform World Aquatics Championships Silver 1973 Belgrade Platform Milena Duchková (born April 25, 1952 in Prague) is a diver from the Czechoslovakia and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal in Platform Diving.[1] She received a silver medal in 1972.
Awards
She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1983.
References
- ^ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Diving" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 13, 2008)
Olympic Diving Champions in Women's 10 metre Platform 1912: Greta Johansson (SWE) • 1920: Stefanie Clausen (DEN) • 1924: Caroline Smith (USA) • 1928: Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston (USA) • 1932 – 1936: Dorothy Poynton-Hill (USA) • 1948: Vicki Draves (USA) • 1952 – 1956: Pat McCormick (USA) • 1960: Ingrid Krämer (EUA) • 1964: Lesley Bush (USA) • 1968: Milena Duchková (TCH) • 1972: Ulrika Knape (SWE) • 1976: Elena Vaytsekhovskaya (URS) • 1980: Martina Jäschke (GDR) • 1984: Zhou Jihong (CHN) • 1988: Xu Yanmei (CHN) • 1992 – 1996: Fu Mingxia (CHN) • 2000: Laura Wilkinson (USA) • 2004: Chantelle Newbery (AUS) • 2008: Chen Ruolin (CHN)
Universiade Diving Champions in Women's 10 metre Platform 1961: Liz Ferris (GBR) • 1963: Bärbel Urban (FRG) • 1965: Joy Newman (GBR) • 1967: Lesley Bush (USA) • 1970: Galina Kovalenko (URS) • 1973: Milena Duchková (TCH) • 1977: Irina Kalinina (URS) • 1979 – 1981: Chen Xiaoxia (CHN) • 1983 – 1987: Lu Wei (CHN) • 1991: Kim Hye-Ok (PRK) • 1993: Anne Montminy (CAN) • 1995: Eileen Richetelli (USA) • 1997: Chi Meilan (CHN) • 1999: Fu Mingxia (CHN) • 2001: Wang Rui (CHN) • 2003: Li Na (CHN) • 2005: Li Ting (CHN) • 2007: Lao Lishi (CHN) • 2009: Paola Espinosa (MEX) • 2011: Paola Espinosa (MEX)
Categories:- 1952 births
- Living people
- Divers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Czech divers
- Czechoslovak divers
- People from Prague
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Czechoslovakian Olympic medalist stubs
- Diving (acrobatics) biography stubs
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