Anna Kubešková (born 30 October 1989) is a
Czech curler from
Prague
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. She currently
skips the Czech national women's curling team.
Career
Kubešková represented the Czech Republic at four
World Junior Curling Championships (
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
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**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
,
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 ...
,
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
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 ...
) and at the
2011 Winter Universiade.
In women's play, Kubešková first represented her country at the
2010 European Curling Championships, where she led her country to a 12–1 record in the "B" Pool. She again played at the Euros
in 2012 playing
second
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for
Linda Klimova. The team finished with a 3–7 record in eighth place. Kubešková skipped the Czech Republic team at the
2013 European Curling Championships, where they finished the event with a 4–5 record in 6th place. The next month, the team played in the
Olympic qualifying tournament in order to play at the
2014 Winter Olympics. The team finished the event with a 2–4 record, which was not enough to qualify. Later that season they played at the
2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship.
Kubešková led the Czech Republic to an 8–3 record in the "B" Pool of the
2015 European Curling Championships and in 2016 they played in the
2016 Europeans, finishing in 4th place, which also qualified them for the
2017 World Women's Curling Championship. There, the finished with a 5–6 record. At the
2017 Euros, they finished with a 3–6 record, qualifying once again for the World Championship. At the
2018 World Women's Curling Championship, the Czech team qualified for the playoffs for the first time with a 6–6 record. They then lost the qualification game 7–3 to Russia's
Victoria Moiseeva. The
2018 Europeans were not successful for the Czechs as they did not qualify for the World Championship. The following season, they would qualify for the Worlds, after going 3–6 at the
2019 European Curling Championships. The
2020 World Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, but Kubešková represented the Czechs at the
2021 World Women's Curling Championship which was played in a bio-secure "bubble" to prevent spread of the virus. There, she led her team to a 3–10 record, in twelfth place.
Kubešková also participated in
mixed doubles curling with her father
Karel Kubeška. They finished in sixth place at the
2009 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, 9th at the
2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. At the
2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, she partnered with
Jiří Candra, and finished 21st.
Personal life
Kubeškova is a daughter of
Karel Kubeška, Czech curler and coach. Aside from curling she is also a professional journalist, having worked in economic desk of national
Czech TV.
As of 2020, she is a public relations professional.
References
External links
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Kubešková Anna (CC SOKOL LIBOC) - Player statistics (all games with his/her participation) - Czech Curling Association
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Living people
1989 births
Curlers from Prague
Czech female curlers
Czech curling champions