Veronika Vítková (; born on 9 December 1988) is a

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former

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

. She comes from a family of skiers and switched from cross-country to biathlon at age 10. She competed for the Czech Republic at the

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 ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Winter Olympics. At the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening ro ...

, together with

Ondřej Moravec Ondřej Moravec (; born 9 June 1984) is a former Czech biathlete. Life and career Moravec represented the Czech Republic at the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won silver medals in both the pursuit and the mixed re ...

Jaroslav Soukup Jaroslav Soukup (, born 12 July 1982) is a retired Czech biathlete. Career His first World Cup podium was in Östersund at the pursuit competition on 4 December 2011. Soukup won a bronze medal in biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in sprint ...

and Gabriela Soukalová, she won a silver medal in the Mixed relay. At the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Ko ...

she won the bronze medal in the 7.5 km sprint event. 23/4/2020 she announced retirement and her pregnancy.

Record

Olympic Games

3 medals (1 silver, 2 bronze)''

World Championships

2 medals (1 gold, 1 bronze)

World Cup

Podiums

World Cup Relay

Podiums

World Cup Position

References

External links

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International Biathlon Union – Veronika Vítková
1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Vrchlabí Skiers from the Hradec Králové Region Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Czech female biathletes Olympic biathletes for the Czech Republic Biathlon World Championships medalists Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Czech Republic Olympic bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Olympic medalists in biathlon Long stubs with short prose {{CzechRepublic-biathlon-bio-stub