Eva Bosáková

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Medal record
Eva Bosáková
Eva Bosáková
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Games
Silver 1956 Melbourne Balance beam
Silver 1960 Rome Team
Gold 1960 Rome Balance beam
World Gymnastics Championships
Silver 1954 Rome Individual all-around
Silver 1954 Rome Balance Beam
Silver 1954 Rome Floor Exercise
Silver 1958 Moscow Team
Silver 1958 Moscow Individual All-Around
Silver 1958 Moscow Uneven Bars
Gold 1958 Moscow Floor Exercise
Silver 1962 Prague Team
Silver 1962 Prague Uneven Bars
Gold 1962 Prague Balance Beam
European Gymnastics Championships
Bronze 1957 Bucharest Balance Beam
Bronze 1957 Bucharest Floor Exercise
Bronze 1959 Krakow Floor Exercise

Eva Bosáková was a Czech gymnast whose career spanned at least from the 1954 World Championships to the 1962 World Championships. Her father was also a gymnast for the Czech national team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

She and Vera Caslavska led the Czech women's gymnastics team to three successive World/Olympic Silver Medals in a row (1958 Worlds - 1960 Olympics - 1962 Worlds), establishing their nation as the foremost challengers to the dominant Soviet women's team during that era.

On balance beam, where she is credited for being the first woman gymnast to compete a cartwheel (at the 1956 Olympics), she was World (1962) and Olympic (1960) champion, and she was good enough on all four events combined to become All-Around Silver Medalist at two consecutive World Championships (1958, 1962).

After her competitive career was over, she became a member of the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble and later became a coach in her home country.

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