Jana Cieslarová (born 6 June 1971 in

Třinec Třinec (; ; ) is a city in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 34,000 inhabitants, making it the least populated Statutory city (Czech Republic), statutory city in the country. The city ...

) is a

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orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

competitor Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

who competed for

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until 1992. She won the 1991 Short distance

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

.World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006
(Retrieved on 25 November 2007) She also has a silver medal in the

Relay A relay Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off A relay is an electrically operated switc ...

championship from 1989, and bronze medals from 1991, 1993 and 1995.

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* 1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Třinec Czechoslovak orienteers Czech female orienteers Czech foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists {{CzechRepublic-orienteering-bio-stub