Iveta Vacenovská (; born 22 March 1986) is a

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player. She resides in

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and plays for Linz AG Froschberg. Based on her world ranking in May 2011, she qualified directly for the

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, where she reached the third round before losing to Wu Jiaduo of Germany.

Life

Vacenovská began playing

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

when she was six years old, because of her uncle, who is a

coach. Besides being a professional athlete, she is also a student at the

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in the Department of Sport and Physical Education, and enjoys all kinds of sporting activities.

Career records

*2003 European Youth Champion Singles *2006 U21 Winner ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals *2009 3rd place Team European Championships *2009 Champions League Winner with Linz AG Froschberg *2005, 2007, 2011 Winner Stadtmeisterschaften Singles *2015 bronze medal in the 2015 European Games in

References

1986 births Living people People from Hodonín Czech female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for the Czech Republic Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games Universiade medalists in table tennis Universiade bronze medalists for the Czech Republic European Games medalists in table tennis European Games bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Sportspeople from the South Moravian Region Charles University alumni {{CzechRepublic-tabletennis-bio-stub