Barbora Špotáková

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Medal record
Špotáková at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.
Women's athletics
World Championships
Gold	2007 Osaka	Javelin
European Championships
Silver	2006 Gothenburg	Javelin

Barbora Špotáková (IPA: ['barbora 'ʃpotaːkovaː]) (born 30 June 1981 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a Czech javelin thrower.

She won the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg.

Špotáková improved the Czech national record (previously 66.21 m held by herself since 2006) twice in the final of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. She took an early lead for 66.40 m in the first attempt and secured the gold medal in the third attempt (67.07 m) before German Christina Obergföll (66.46 m). Špotáková became the seventh woman in the world reaching 67 m mark. She has since improved this mark to 67.12. In 2008 she became the fourth woman in history, when she improves czech national record to 69.15 m.

Špotáková was a heptathlete in her early career, finishing fourth at the 2000 World Juior Championships.

She is currently a member of the elite ASO (Armádní sportovní oddíl, Army Sport Group) of TJ Dukla Praha where Rudolf Černý is her coach.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Extra
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	4th	Heptathlon 5689 points
2005	Universiade	İzmir, Turkey	1st	60.73m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	5th	61.60m
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	2nd	66.12m PB
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	1st	66.21m NR
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	1st	67.07m NR
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	1st	67.12m NR