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Gabriela Sedláková
Gabriela Sedláková (born 2 March 1968) is a former Czechoslovak track and field athlete who competed in the 800 metres. She was the silver medallist in that event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Earlier she had been European junior champion and World junior runner-up. Sedláková represented Czechoslovakia at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics and 1986 European Athletics Championships. She was twice a finalist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Her 800 m bests of 1:58.37 minutes outdoors and 2:01.85 minutes indoors remain the Slovak records for the distance. She was a seven-time Czechoslovak national champion. Career Born in Topoľčany (now in Slovakia), she emerged as a teenager at the 1985 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she shared in the 800 m title with Maria Pintea – the pair ended the race in a dead heat of 2:03.22 minutes. A second international medal followed at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, cross-country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay (athletics), relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern athletics events, events in athletics were defined in Western Europe an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships
The Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships () was an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Czechoslovak Athletics Federation, which served as the national championship for the sport in Czechoslovakia. Held over two days in February during the Czechoslovak winter, it was added to the national calendar in 1969 following the creation of a suitable indoor athletics venue in Jablonec nad Nisou. A Czech-only championship was held at the venue a year earlier. The competition served as the winter, indoor counterpart to the main Czechoslovak Athletics Championships, held outdoors in the summer since 1919. The last edition was held in 1992 and after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia it was succeeded by the separate Czech Indoor and Slovak Indoor Athletics Championships.Czechoslovak Indoor Championships GBR Athleti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Berlin
West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany), despite being entirely surrounded by the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. However, West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949 and was thereafter treated as a ''de facto'' city-state of that country. After 1949, it was directly or indirectly represented in the institutions of the FRG, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG. West Berlin was formally controlled by the Western Allies and entirely surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany. West Berlin had great symbolic signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internationales Stadionfest
The Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) is an annual track and field Sport of athletics, athletics meeting at the Olympiastadion (Berlin), Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was first held in July 1921 at the Deutsches Stadion (Berlin), Deutsches Stadion, which was replaced from 1937 by the 1936 Summer Olympics, Stadium of the 1936 Olympic Games. Since 2006 ISTAF has been sponsored by Deutsche Kreditbank, DKB and officially known as the DKB-ISTAF and from 2010, had been part of the IAAF World Challenge, the second tier of global one day athletics events. Nowadays, the meeting is a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver tier, the third ranked tier. History On 3 July 1921 the ''Berliner Sport-Club'' (BSC), the ''SCC Berlin, Sport-Club Charlottenburg'' (SCC) and the ''Schwimm-Club Poseidon'' organised the first sports festival under the current name of Internationales Stadionfest or ISTAF. On 23 March 1937 the BSC, the ''Deutscher Sport-Club'' (DSC, later ''Olympisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarmila Kratochvílová
Jarmila Kratochvílová (; born 26 January 1951 in Golčův Jeníkov) is a Czechoslovak former track and field athlete. She won the 400 metres and 800 metres at the 1983 World Championships, setting a world record in the 400 m. In 1983, she set the world record for the 800 metres, which still stands and is currently the longest-standing world record in athletics. Only two athletes, Pamela Jelimo of Kenya (2008), and Caster Semenya of South Africa (2018), have come within a second of Kratochvílová's mark since it was set. Biography In 1983, Kratochvílová broke the 800 m world record with a time of 1:53.28. At the World Championships shortly afterwards, she set a world record of 47.99 seconds to win the 400 m. Kratochvílová's 1983 400-metre world record of 47.99 seconds stood for two years until it was broken by her great rival Marita Koch in 1985. Koch's 400-metre world record of 47.60 seconds still stands in 2024. Kratochvílová's world record on an indoor track— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozefína Čerchlanová
Jozefína Čerchlanová (born 29 March 1952) is a Slovak middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ..., representing Czechoslovakia. References 1952 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Slovak female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Czechoslovakia Place of birth missing (living people) FISU World University Games silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Competitors at the 1973 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1977 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1975 Summer Universiade {{Slovakia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovak Athletics Championships
The Czechoslovak Athletics Championships () was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Czechoslovakia Athletics Association, which served as the national championship for the sport in Czechoslovakia. Typically organised in July or August, the event was first held in 1919 (the first summer after the country's formation) until 1992. The competition was not held in the years from 1938 to 1944 due to World War II and ran for 66 editions in total. It was superseded by the Czech Athletics Championships and Slovak Athletics Championships following the country's dissolution in 1993. Czechoslovakia had sometimes hosted separate Czech and Slovak sub-national championships before then.Czechoslovakian Championships GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-28. The [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Athletics
The European Athletic Association (EAA, more commonly known as European Athletics) is the governing body for Sport of athletics, athletics in Europe. It is one of the six Area Associations of the world's athletics governing body World Athletics. European Athletics has 51 members and is headquartered in Lausanne. Originally created in 1932 as a European Committee, it was made into an independent body during the Bucharest conference of 1969. The first European Athletics congress took place in Paris on 6–8 October 1970, with Dutchman Adriaan Paulen elected as its first president. From a volunteer-led organization based in the acting Secretary's home country, European Athletics has developed into a professional organization with a permanent base in Switzerland. European Athletics runs and regulates several championships and meetings across Europe – both indoor and outdoor. History After the foundation of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in 1912, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aníta Hinriksdóttir
Aníta Hinriksdóttir (born 13 January 1996) is an Icelandic Middle-distance running, middle-distance Track and field, track athlete who specializes in the 800 metres. She won the bronze medal in the event at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships, 2017 European Indoor Championships and a silver at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships, 2017 European Under-23 Championships. As a 16-year old, she placed fourth in the 800 m at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics, 2012 World U20 Championships before winning the event at the 2013 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics, World U18 Championships and 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships, European U20 Championships. Hinriksdóttir is the List of Icelandic records in athletics, Icelandic record holder for the 800 m and 1500 metres, 1500 m outdoors and indoors and holds also three other individual national records. She won 13 Icelandic titles. Biography Aníta was born in Reykjav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of Czechoslovakia
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the Self-determination, self-determined Partition (politics), partition of the federal republic of Fifth Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and Slovakia. Both mirrored the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, which had been created in 1969 as the constituent states of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic until the end of 1989. It is sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce, a reference to the Nonviolent revolution, bloodless Velvet Revolution of 1989, which had led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Background Czechoslovakia was created with the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. In 1918, a meeting took place in the American city of Pittsburgh, at which the future Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and other Czech and Slovak represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Kubešová
Ivana Kubešová (née Kleinová, then Walterová; born 26 May 1962 in Šumperk) is a retired middle distance runner who represented Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic. She won three medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 3rd IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo in Seville, Spain from March 8 to March 10, 1991. It was the first Indoor Championships to include relay races as well as women's triple .... International competitions References * 1962 births Living people Czech female middle-distance runners Czechoslovak female middle-distance runners European Athletics Championships medalists Sportspeople from Šumperk Athletes from the Olomouc Region World Athletics Championships athletes for Czechoslovakia Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games Czechoslovak Athletics Championships winners Czech Athletics Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Wachtel
Christine Wachtel (born 6 January 1965) is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ... at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run. Her time of 1:56.64 put her second to her training partner Sigrun Wodars. Biography Wachtel was born in Altentreptow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Her earlier successes in the 800 meter run included: * 1983: Second at the Junior European championship (2:00.42 Min.) * 1987: Second at the World championship (1:55.32 Min.) In 1990, she was second at the European championships. (1:56.11 Min.) Other success in the 4 × 400 meter relay: * 1991: Third at the world championship with the German 4 × 400 meter relay (3:21.25 Min.). She also participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
