Zuzana Paulová (born 28 January 1993 as Zuzana Hájková) is a Czech curler.

Curling career

Women's

As a junior curler, Paulová represented the Czech Republic in four

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. Her first trip there was the

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throwing

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rocks for

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. The team finished in 8th place. Hájková returned to the World Juniors in 2012,

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ping a team of Iveta Janatová,

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and Eva Málková while throwing third stones. The team posted a 6-3 round robin record, putting them in second place. In the playoffs, they lost in the 1 vs. 2 game to Scotland (skipped by

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) but won their semifinal game against Sweden's Sara McManus rink, putting them into the final. There, they would play against Scotland again, but once again would come up short, settling for the bronze medal. Paulová returned to the World Juniors the next year. Paulová continued to play third stones, but Janatová would skip the team. The team would end up finishing fourth place. Paulová took back skipping duties at the

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but continued to throw third stones while Janatová threw last bricks.

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rounded out the team. Paulová led her team to a 3–6 record for a 7th-place finish. Paulová has twice played for the Czechs at the

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, both times as the team's alternate. She would play in three games at the

2008 European Curling Championships The 2008 Le Gruyère European Curling Championships were held at Swedbank Arena in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden December 6–13, 2008. In a rematch of the men's A-Group final from the 2007 European Curling Championships, David Murdoch led Scotland to ...

on a team skipped by Katerina Urbanova, finishing in 10th place. She would return in 2014, playing in seven games on a team skipped by Linda Klimova. The team would again finish in 10th place.

Mixed doubles

In addition to regular curling, Paulová plays

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. She has played in five

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s for her native Czech Republic. At her first World Championship in

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, she and partner

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ended up capturing the bronze medal. At the 2014 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, the pair finished in 7th, and at the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, they finished 4th, which would not be enough to qualify them for the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

. Paulová and Paul represented the Czech Republic again at the

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and 2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships, finishing 10th in 2018 and losing in the quarterfinals in 2019. In February 2020, Paulová and Paul won 2020 Czech Mixed Doubles Curling ChampionshipFinále mixed doubles 2020 , Curling CZ
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2020 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship The 2020 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was scheduled to be held from April 18 to 25 at the Kelowna Curling Club in Kelowna, Canada. On March 14, 2020, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be h ...

before the event was cancelled due to the

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. In April 2021, Paulová and Paul represented at World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, finishing at the 4th place in the round robin group. This result qualified them to play an Olympic Qualification Game against the USA to gain a spot at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022. The Czech duo won the game 8:6 and qualified the Czech Republic to the Olympic Games for the first time in Czech curling history.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paulova, Zuzana 1993 births Living people Czech female curlers Czech curling champions Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic curlers for the Czech Republic Sportspeople from Prague