Mária Vidláková
Mária Vidláková sometimes written as Marie Vidláková with marriage name Kuchovská (4 September 1904 - 13 August 1994) was a Czechoslovak track and field athlete, handball player and tennis player. She was active during the 1920s, the early era of women's athletics. She was a world record holder won a gold and bronze medal at the second Women's World Games in 1926.
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| Born | 4 September 1904 Třebíč, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 August 1994 (aged 89) Brno, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Czechoslovakia Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field athletics Handball Tennis | |||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | sprint, discus throw, shot put, javelin throw, hurdling | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | SK Trebic (1924-1925) AC Moravská Slavia Brno SK Židenice (1926-1929) | |||||||||||||||||
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Biography
changeVidláková was born in 1904 in Třebíč and was a member of SK Trebic (1924-1925), AC Moravská Slavia Brno and SK Židenice (1926-1929).[1][2] As an athlete she competed in sprint events, discus throw, shot put, javelin throw and hurdles.[3] She also played handball at national level and tennis.[1][2]
At the 1924 Brussels Femina Club international women's athletics meeting she won the discus throw event and finished third in the 83 metres relay event.[4]
On 12 July 1925, she set the world record in the 4 x 75 meters relay for the national team in Ljubljana (together with Miloslava Havlíčková, Kamila Olmerová and Zdena Smolová).[5]
On 11 October 1925 she set the world record in the discus throw with a disctance 31.15 meters in Prague.[3][1] In 1925 she also held the unofficial world record in the javelin throw.[2][1]
In 1926, she represented Czechoslovakia at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg. She won the gold medal in the shot put event ahead of Swedish Elsa Svensson and Polish Halina Konopacka.[6][7] She won the bronze medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay together with Zdena Smolová, Štepánka Kucerová and Ludmila Sychrová.[8][9]
On 19 June 1927 she became the first Czech shot putter throwing over 10 metres (with one hand) with a distance of 10.24 metres.[2]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Marie Kuchovská". Encyklopedie Brna (in cz).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Galerie slávy – K | Kuchovská Marie". mslavia.cz (in cz).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Marie Vidlakova". brinkster.net.
- ↑ "Le grand meeting du Brussels F.C." (in French). La Nation Belge. 10 August 1924. p. 4 – via uurl.kbr.be.
- ↑ "Athletics - Progression of outdoor world records until 31.10.2023 (Women)". sport-record.de.
- ↑ 90 lat polskiej lekkoatletyki 1919 - 2009 (PDF) (in Polish). Warsaw: Polish Athletics Association. 2009. p. 27. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ↑ "De vrouwenspelen van Gothemburg" (in Dutch). Sportwereld. 31 August 1926. p. 4. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ↑ "Les Jeux Mondiaux féminins de Gothebourg". La Dernière Heure (in French). 31 August 1926. p. 4.
- ↑ Svenska dagbladets Årsbok 1926 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet. 1927. p. 217-218. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via runeberg.org.