Denisa Ščerbová

Denisa Ščerbová (pronounced|ˈdɛnɪsa 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. Ščerbová's 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, Ščerbová has been a member of AK SSK Vítkovice, an athletic club in Ostrava; her coach is Aleš Duda.

Ščerbová 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. Ščerbová 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, Ščerbová 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, Denisa Ščerbová 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.

Ščerbová's life partner is another Czech athlete, Jaroslav Bába.

External links

* EAA profile for [http://www.european-athletics.org/birmingham/athletebio.php?bib=1050 Denisa Ščerbová]
* [http://www.atletika.cz/Default.aspx?article=1933 ČAS profile] cs icon