Klára Peslarová (born 23 November 1996) is a Czech

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and member of the

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, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with

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Playing career

Peslarová developed in the

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department of

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in her home city of

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, in the eastern Czech Republic. By age 14, she was playing with the HC Poruba men's under-16 (U16) team in the Junior Youth Extraliga (, ELMD) and she first played with the HC Poruba men's under-18 (U18) team in the Senior Youth Extraliga (, ELSD) at age 15. She made her senior league debut with

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of the Women's 1st Hockey League (, shortened to ), the top women's league in the Czech Republic, in the 2011–12 season. She continued to divide her playing time between the HC Poruba men's junior teams and the SK Karviná women's team during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons, never playing more than 20 games in any league per season. As her 18th birthday approached and she would no longer be eligible to play in Czech men's junior leagues, Peslarová looked abroad to further her development. For the 2014–15 season, she relocated to the

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n city of

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to sign with

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of the Russian Women's Hockey League (RWHL; replaced by the Zhenskaya Hockey League in 2015). Another relocation preceded the 2015–16 season, with Peslarová settling in

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to join SDE Hockey of the

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(renamed SDHL in 2016), as the team's starting goaltender. After two seasons with SDE, Peslarová signed for the 2017–18 season with the men's representative B-team of

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in the Czech Regional Hockey Championship (, abbreviated to ''Krajský přebor''), the fourth-tier men's ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. During the season, she became the first woman to post a

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in a Czech men's league, denying all thirteen shots on goal during a match against HK Nový Jičín. In addition to playing with HC Poruba B, she also returned to

of the renamed Czech Women's Extraliga () for the 2017–18 season. After one season in the Czech Republic, Peslarová returned to Sweden to sign with her second SDHL club, MoDo Hockey in

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International play

Peslarová was the starting goaltender for the Czech national under-18 team in the

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and 2014 IIHF Women's World U18 Champhionships. She was named Best Goaltender by the directorate at the 2014 tournament, as she backstopped the Czech team to the second bronze medal in team history. She represented the Czech Republic at the

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, and

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; and at the Division 1 Group A tournaments in

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and

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. Following the 2022 tournament, she was named to the Media All-Star team.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

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International

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peslarova, Klara 1996 births Living people Biryusa Krasnoyarsk players Brynäs IF Dam players Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden Czech women's ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Modo Hockey Dam players Olympic ice hockey players of the Czech Republic SDE Hockey players Sportspeople from Ostrava