Hana Horáková ( Machová, ; born 11 September 1979 in

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) is a basketball player from the Czech Republic who plays for BK Brno. She was a member of the

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that won the European title in 2005 by defeating

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in the final. Playing as a

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she also competed for her native country at the

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, the

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and the

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, finishing in fifth place in 2004 and in seventh place at the other two Olympics. She won EuroLeague Women 2005-06 with Gambrinus Brno and played 12 ppg, 4.5 rpg and 3 apg averages in EuroLeague Women 2009–10. She also won the

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2011 with Fenerbahçe Istanbul. In 2010, she led the Czech Republic to a surprise 2nd-place finish in the FIBA World Championship for Women and was named the tournament MVP.

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Hana Machová
at EurobasketWomen2005.com (archived) * * * * 1979 births Living people Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Czech women's basketball players Czech expatriate basketball people in Turkey Fenerbahçe women's basketball players Olympic basketball players of the Czech Republic People from Bruntál Point guards Shooting guards FIBA Hall of Fame inductees Sportspeople from the Moravian-Silesian Region {{CzechRepublic-basketball-bio-stub