Kateřina Baďurová (; born 18 December 1982 in

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...

), also known as Kateřina Janků, is a Czech former

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

er. She finished twelfth at the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. She also competed at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 without reaching the finals. Her best success came at the

2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...

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, Japan, where she took

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for 4.75 m vault, setting new Czech national record. She took early retirement from the sport due to a serious rupture of the ligament in her left knee. After retirement, she planned to continue in the field of child physiotherapy. Since 2010 she works as an athletic head coach.

Personal life

In 2010, Baďurová married Czech high jumper, Tomáš Janků. In 2007, Janků presented Baďurová with 465 roses at a press conference after she set a new national record in the pole vault of 465cm. The pair have two daughters Ellen (born 2012) and Nikolet (born 2014). She won ''StarDance'', the Czech version of '' Dancing with the Stars'', in 2012.

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* * * * * 1982 births Living people Czech female pole vaulters Czech athletics coaches Czech female dancers Olympic athletes of the Czech Republic Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for the Czech Republic Sportspeople from Ostrava {{czechRepublic-athletics-bio-stub