Petra Jurčová (born 22 June 1987) is a Slovak

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and former member of the

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. She represented Slovakia in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

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, at seven

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tournaments at the Top Division through Division II levels, and in the women's ice hockey tournaments at the

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s in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

. Jurčová most recently played with ŽHK 2000 Šarišanka Prešov in the 2020–21 season of the

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International career

Jurčová was selected for the women's ice hockey team of the Slovak Olympic delegation at the

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. She played in all five games, recording one assist. She played in the qualifying campaigns for the

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

and 2014 Olympics. Jurčová has also appeared for Slovakia at seven

s, across three levels. Her first appearance came in

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

. She appeared at the Top Level championships in

and

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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Personal life

Jurčová's younger brother, Tomáš Jurčo, is also an ice hockey player; he has played with several teams in the

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(NHL) and represented in the men's ice hockey tournament at the

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Career statistics

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* * * 1987 births Living people Ice hockey people from Košice Slovak women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Slovakia Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Slovakia Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade Slovak expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic {{Slovakia-icehockey-bio-stub