Zuzana Hejnová

Zuzana Hejnová (born December 19 1986) is a Czech athlete. She competes in the 100 metres, the 100 metres hurdles, the 400 metres and the 400m hurdles and often the heptathlon, particularly as a junior. She was born in Liberec.

Junior

In 2003, Hejnová competed at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics at Sherbrooke, Canada and won the gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles with a time of 57.54. A year later, she returned at Grosseto, Italy at the 2004 World Junior Championships. This time she won the silver with a time of 57.44 in the 400m hurdles, defeated by the Russian, Ekaterina Kostetskaya, who won gold by a large margin at 55.55 seconds.

Her current personal bests are 14.11 in the 100m achieved at Ostrava on September 3 2005, 13.77 in the 100 metres hurdles at Stara Boleslav on June 13 2003, 53.04 in the 400m at Kladno on June 28 2008 and 54.96 in the 400m hurdles recorded at Ostrava on June 12 2008.

2008

In early March 2008 Hejnová competed in the 400 metres at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships and reached the semi finals but did not qualify to reach the final. She did however, reach the final with the Czech relay team in the 4x400 metres relay in a team which included her, Zuzana Bergrová, Denisa Ščerbová, and Jitka Bartoníčková. They finished 4th, with a time of 3:34.53, but were over 5 seconds slower than the Americans who took bronze with a time of 3:29.30.

On June 21st 2008 she competed for the Czech Republic at the European Cup in Athletics 2008.

Hejnová is competing in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics where she qualified for the second round with the thirteenth fastest overall time of 55.91 seconds.

External links

* [http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=CZE/athcode=190430/index.html IAAF profile]