Zdena Smolová

Zdena Smolová also written as Zdeňka Smolová with marriage name Fleischerová (17 April 1908 - 25 November 1964) was a Czechoslovak track and field athlete during the 1920s and 1930s, the early era of women's athletics. She was world record holder. She won two silver medals and a bronze medal at the second Women's World Games in 1926 and also two bronze medals at the Olympics of Grace in 1931.

Zdena Smolová

Personal information
Born	(1908-04-17)17 April 1908 Brno, Czechoslovakia
Died	25 November 1964(1964-11-25) (aged 56) Bojkovice, Czechoslovakia
Sport
Country	Czechoslovakia
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	sprint, long jump, standing long jump, high jump
Club	AC Moravská Slavia Brno
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Czechoslovakia Women's World Games 1926 Gothenburg standing long jump 1926 Gothenburg long jump 1926 Gothenburg 4×110 y relay Olympics of Grace 1931 Gothenburg 4×75 m relay 1931 Gothenburg 4×100 m relay

Biography

Smolová was born in 1908 in Brno and was a member of AC Moravská Slavia Brno.

On 12 July 1925 she set with the national team the world record in the 4 x 75 meters relay with a time of 40.2 seconds.

In 1926, she represented Czechoslovakia at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg. She won the silver medal in the standing long jump event behind Japanese Kinue Hitomi and a bronze medal in the long jump event behind Hitomi and British Muriel Gunn. She won the bronze medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay together with Ludmila Sychrová, Štepánka Kucerová and Marie Vidláková.

She had also other international successes, including winning the long jump at the 1926 Stockholm international women's athletics meeting and had also a podium finish in the high jump. She also competed at the 1930 Women's World Games.