Amálie Hilgertová (born 4 September 1997) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2013. She won two medals at the

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with a silver in

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(K1 team) and a bronze in

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(Extreme K1). She also won a gold and a bronze medal in the K1 event at the

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and a silver in the K1 team event at the

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Family

She comes from a canoeing family. Her father is

Ivan Hilgert Ivan Hilgert is a former Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1983 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Meran Merano (, ; ) or Meran () is a (m ...

, her mother is

Marcela Hilgertová Marcela Hilgertová (née Košťálová, born 1962) is a former Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. She won two bronze medals in the K-1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earnin ...

. Double Olympic champion Štěpánka Hilgertová is her aunt. Her uncle is Luboš Hilgert sr. and her cousin is Luboš Hilgert jr.

World Cup individual podiums

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* Czech female canoeists Living people 1997 births Canoeists at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships Sportspeople from Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav Canoeists from the Central Bohemian Region Canoeists at the 2023 European Games European Games silver medalists for the Czech Republic European Games medalists in canoeing {{CzechRepublic-canoe-bio-stub