Denisa Rosolová

Denisa Rosolová

Personal information
Born	(1986-08-21) August 21, 1986
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	Czech Republic
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long jump 400 m hurdles 400 metres Heptathlon 4 × 400m Relay
Medal record Competitor for  Czech Republic Women's athletics European Championships Silver 2012 Helsinki 400 m hurdles Bronze 2012 Helsinki 4 x 400m relay European Indoor Championships Gold 2011 Paris 400 m Bronze 2007 Birmingham Long jump Bronze 2013 Gothenburg 4 x 400m relay World Junior Championships Gold 2004 Grosseto Long jump World U17 Championships Silver 2003 Sherbrooke Long jump

Denisa Rosolová, née Ščerbová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪsa ˈrosolovaː ˈʃtʃɛrbovaː]) (born August 21, 1986 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech athlete who has won medals at the European Championships and European Indoor Championships.

Biography

Denisa Rosolová (track 5) in starting blocks at the 2010 Josef Odložil Memorial.

Rosolová's main event is the long jump, but she also competes in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump (July 2004 in Grosseto) and 5,828 points in the heptathlon (July 2006 in Tábor). Since 2001, she has been a member of AK SSK Vítkovice, an athletic club in Ostrava; her coach is Aleš Duda.^[1]

Rosolová took the silver medal in the long jump at the 2003 U17 World Championships in Sherbrooke and won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto. She came 25th in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also competed in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg but had to pull out because of an ankle injury.

At the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Rosolová matched her Czech indoor long jump record of 6.64 m and came in third, beating Bianca Kappler by one centimetre and winning her first major senior medal. As of March 2007, she was several-time champion of the Czech Republic (one outdoor and three indoor titles in the long jump and one title in the heptathlon). In February 2008 she improved her own indoor national record in pentathlon to 4632 points. In November 2008 she married tennis player Lukáš Rosol. In 2011, they divorced.^[1] In 2012, Rosolová started to compete in the 400 m hurdles and in her first season, she almost beat Zuzana Hejnová's national record.

Rosolová won a bronze medal with the Czech 4x400 metres relay at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships.^[2]

References

External links

• Denisa Rosolová profile at IAAF
• EAA profile for Denisa Rosolová
• Media related to Denisa Rosolová at Wikimedia Commons