Ludmila Polesná

Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
World Championships
Gold 1961 Hainsberg Folding K-1
Gold 1963 Spittal Folding K-1
Gold 1967 Lipno K-1
Gold 1969 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1
Silver 1963 Spittal Folding K-1 team
Silver 1965 Spittal K-1 team
Silver 1967 Lipno K-1 team
Silver 1969 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
Silver 1971 Meran K-1
Bronze 1971 Meran K-1 team
Bronze 1975 Skopje K-1 team

Ludmila Polesná (August 31, 1934 in Písek - December 9, 1988 in Prague) was a Czechoslovak slalom canoer who competed from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with four golds (Folding K-1: 1961, 1963; K-1: 1967, 1969), five silvers (K-1: 1971, K-1 team: 1965, 1967, 1969, Folding K-1 team: 1963) and two bronzes (K-1 team: 1971, 1975).

Polesná also finished 16th in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

References

1949 (folding): Heidi Pillwein (AUT) · 1951 (folding): Gerti Pertlwieser (AUT) · 1953 (folding): Fritzi Schwingl (AUT) · 1955 (folding): Rosemarie Biesinger (FRG) · 1957 (folding): Brigitte Magnus (GDR) · 1959 (folding): Hilde Urbaniak (FRG) · 1961 (folding): Ludmila Polesná (TCH) · 1963 (folding): Ludmila Polesná (TCH) · 1965: Ursula Gläser (GDR) · 1967: Ludmila Polesná (TCH) · 1969: Ludmila Polesná (TCH) · 1971: Angelika Bahmann (GDR) · 1973: Sybille Spindler (GDR) · 1975: Maria Ćwiertniewicz (POL) · 1977: Angelika Bahmann (GDR) · 1979: Cathy Hearn (USA) · 1981: Ulrike Deppe (FRG) · 1983: Elizabeth Sharman (GBR) · 1985: Margit Messelhäuser (FRG) · 1987: Elizabeth Sharman (GBR) · 1989: Myriam Jerusalmi (FRA) · 1991: Elisabeth Micheler (GER) · 1993: Myriam Jerusalmi (FRA) · 1995: Lynn Simpson (GBR) · 1997: Brigitte Guibal (FRA) · 1999: Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE) · 2002: Rebecca Giddens (USA) · 2003: Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE) · 2005: Elena Kaliská (SVK) · 2006: Jana Dukátová (SVK) · 2007: Jennifer Bongardt (GER) · 2009: Jasmin Schomberg (GER) · 2010: Corinna Kuhnle (AUT) · 2011: Corinna Kuhnle (AUT)