Zdeňka Honsová (3 July 1927 in Jihlava – 16 May 1994) was a Czech gymnast who competed in the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...

. Honsová was the highest women's gymnastics individual all-around scorer at these Olympics, continuing the legacy of major-games-all-around-first-place-winning established by her Czechoslovak compatriate, the sport's first-ever women's World All-Around Champion and twice-first-place-finisher in the combined individual standings, Vlasta Děkanová, and continued later by another of her Czechoslovak compatriates, two-time Olympic All-Around Champion Věra Čáslavská. Honsova had a truly outstanding competition at these games in 1948, coming in 1st place in the individual total combined standings, the individual compulsory exercise combined standings,

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, and balance beam (combined compulsory and voluntary score). She was also the 2nd-place finisher on compulsory beam (behind her teammate Božena Srncová), and the 4th-place finisher on compulsory vault. Unfortunately, Honsová is not officially recognized as being an Olympic All-Around Champion like women gymnasts such as

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, Čáslavská, Nadia Comăneci, Elena Shushunova, or Simone Biles because individual medals were not awarded to women gymnasts at the Olympic games until 1952. This is a lack-of-individual distinction that she shares with Trudi Meyer as well as with whoever was the highest scorer of the women's gymnastics competition at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympic Games.

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1927 births 1994 deaths Czech female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Czechoslovakia Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in gymnastics Sportspeople from Jihlava Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics {{Czechoslovakia-Olympic-medalist-stub