Martina Sáblíková

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Women's speed skating
Medal record
Martina Sáblíková
World Championships
Gold	2007 Salt Lake City	3000 m
Gold	2007 Salt Lake City	5000 m
European Championships
Gold	2007 Collalbo	Allround
World's Junior Championships
Silver	2006 Erfurt	Allround

Martina Sáblíková ['marcɪna 'sa:bli:kova:] (help·info) (born May 27, 1987 in Žďár nad Sázavou) is a Czech speed skater, specializing in long distance races.

As a junior, Sáblíková already achieved some notable results during international tournaments. In 2005 she came seventh in the 5,000 m during the World Single Distance Championships. On 18 November 2005 she skated the 3,000 m junior world record 4:00.69 in Salt Lake City. She became Czech youth champion in 1999, 2001 and 2004.

In the 2006 European allround championships in Hamar she finished fourth overall, by placing third at the 3,000 m and winning the 5,000 m. At the 5,000 meter she surprisingly beat favorite Claudia Pechstein.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin she finished fourth in the 5,000 m, behind Clara Hughes, Claudia Pechstein and Cindy Klassen. During her race against Cindy Klassen she was more than 3 seconds faster in the last round, but eventually she missed the bronze medal by a second.

Because of Sáblíková's results, her position on the all time world ranking, the Adelskalender, increased from the 94th to the 15th place, within a year. In March 2006, she skated a world record at the 10,000 m, beating Clara Hughes's former best time with more than 11 seconds.

In 2007, she won her first major tournament, the European allround championships in Collalbo, with an outdoor world record samalog score 162.954 points. She won both the 3,000m and the 5,000m in an outdoor world record time. She did not perform so well at the World alround championships in Heerenveen, where she finished fifth, but she managed to win the 2007 Speed Skating World Cup on the 3000/5000 m track. At the end of the season she won two gold medals at the 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City on 3,000 m and 5,000 m tracks. She also beat here the 5,000 m track world record and set it for 6:45.61, 1.3 seconds faster than the previous record of Claudia Pechstein.

March 15 2007 Sáblíková became the first female speedskater to skate a 10,000 m below 14 minutes when she did 13:48.33 in Calgary.^[1] She improved her own one year old world record by almost 20 seconds.

Personal records
Women's speed skating
Distance	Time	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	40.72	2006-03-18	Calgary
1000 m	1:17.87	2005-11-19	Salt Lake City
1500 m	1:54.55	2007-03-03	Calgary
3000 m	3:57.04	2007-03-04	Calgary
5000 m	6:45.61	2007-03-11	Salt Lake City	World record^[2]
10000 m	13:48.33	2007-03-15	Calgary	World record