- Denisa Rosolová
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Medal record
Denisa Ščerbová at the 2008 TNT - Fortuna Meeting heptathlon in KladnoWomen's athletics Competitor for Czech Republic European Indoor Championships Bronze 2007 Birmingham Long jump Gold 2011 Paris 400 metres World Junior Championships Gold 2004 Grosseto Long jump World U17 Championships Silver 2003 Sherbrooke Long jump Denisa Rosolová, née Ščerbová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪsa ˈrosolovaː ˈʃtʃɛrbovaː]) (born August 21, 1986 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech athlete. Her main event is the long jump, but she competes also in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump (July 2004 in Grosseto) and 5,828 points in the heptathlon (July 2006 in Tábor). Since 2001, she has been a member of AK SSK Vítkovice, an athletic club in Ostrava; her coach is Aleš Duda.[1]
She took the silver medal in the long jump at the 2003 U17 World Championships in Sherbrooke and won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto. She came 25th in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also competed in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg but had to pull out because of an ankle injury.
At the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, she matched her Czech indoor long jump record of 6.64 m and came third, beating Bianca Kappler by one centimetre and winning her first major senior medal.
As of March 2007, she is several-time champion of the Czech Republic (one outdoor and three indoor titles in the long jump and one title in the heptathlon).
On February 2008 she improved her own indoor national record in pentathlon to 4632 points. In November 2008 she married a tennis player Lukáš Rosol.[1]
References
- ^ a b ČAS profile (Czech)
External links
- IAAF profile for Denisa Rosolová
- EAA profile for Denisa Ščerbová
Categories:- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Czech heptathletes
- Czech long jumpers
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Olympic athletes of the Czech Republic
- People from Karviná
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