Martina Moravčíková (; born August 13, 1988) is a Czech swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 200 metre breaststroke, finishing in 26th place overall in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. At the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

, she competed in the women's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. She narrowly missed qualifying for the semifinals in the 200 m.

Personal and early life

Martina Moravčíková was born in 1988 to Ingrid Moravcikova and Jaroslav, a NATO officer. She resides in Tennessee where from 2010 to 2011 she attended

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state ...

. There, she obtained a double major in global studies, language and world business. She enjoys extreme sports such as surfing and snowboarding. A huge admirer of Australian gold medalist

Leisel Jones Leisel Marie Jones, OAM (born 30 August 1985) is an Australian former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. A participant in the 2000 Summer Olympics – at just 15 years old – and 2004 Summer Olympics, she was part of gold-medal ...

, she aspires to work in the American-Chinese import and export business.

References

1988 births Living people Czech female swimmers Czech female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for the Czech Republic Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in swimming University of Tennessee alumni Sportspeople from Rimavská Sobota FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade {{CzechRepublic-swimming-bio-stub