Michaela Hejnová (born 10 April 1980) is a Czech former track and field athlete, specializing in the heptathlon.[1] She has competed for the Czech Republic at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has won a bronze medal in heptathlon at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea. Hejnova set a personal best score of 6065 points at a national meet in Hradec Králové.[2] While competing at PSK Olymp Praha in Prague, Hejnova trains for the national track and field team in heptathlon under the tutelage of her personal coach Martina Blažková.
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| Full name | Michaela Hejnová | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 April 1980 Liberec, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
| Club | PSK Olymp Praha | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Martina Blažková | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Heptathlon: 6065 points (2004) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editBorn in Liberec, Hejnova established her heptathlon history in 1999 with a silver-medal performance at the European Junior Championships in Riga, Latvia, producing a total score of 5786 points. Four years later, Hejnova highlighted her sporting career on the world stage at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea, where she claimed the bronze behind Australian duo Kylie Wheeler and Jane Jamieson in the women's heptathlon with a score of 5795 points.[3][4]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hejnova qualified for the Czech team in the women's heptathlon. Less than a month before the Games, she cleared the IAAF Olympic "B" standard and improved her personal best score to 6065 points at the national trials in Hradec Králové to book her place on the Czech Olympic track and field roster.[5][6] Despite putting up her rewarding effort in the javelin throw, Hejnova could only manage twenty-sixth place in the competition with a total score of 5716, nearly three hundred points below her entry standard.[7][8]
Personal life
editHejnova is also the sister of 400-metre hurdler Zuzana Hejnová, who later claimed the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and two championship titles at the Worlds (both in 2013 and 2015).[3]
Personal bests
edit| Event | Best | Venue | Year | Notes |
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| 100 meter hurdles | 13.21 s | Plzeň, Czech Republic | June 25, 2004 | |
| High jump | 1.73 m | Arles, France | June 5, 2004 | |
| Shot put | 12.69 m | Hengelo, Netherlands | July 3, 2004 | |
| 200 metres | 24.87 s | Prague, Czech Republic | July 3, 2004 | |
| Long jump | 6.09 m | Prague, Czech Republic | July 23, 2000 | |
| Javelin throw | 51.01 m | Alhama de Murcia, Spain | May 20, 2001 | |
| 800 metres | 2:14.14 | Prague, Czech Republic | July 23, 2000 | |
| Heptathlon | 6,065 points | Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | July 18, 2004 |
- All information taken from IAAF profile.
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michaela Hejnová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "Will the next stars emerge in Desenzano? – Multistars preview". IAAF. 10 May 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Michaela Hejnová – Atletika.cz". Czech Athletics Federation. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "XXII. letní světová univerziáda v Daegu" [Athletics at the XXVII Summer Universiade in Daegu]. University of Hradec Králové. 1 November 2003. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "Hejnová chce limit do Atén" [Hejnová aims to surpass the limit in Athens] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 16 July 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Vícebojařský šampionát okořenila Hejnová limitem na OH" [Hejnová achieves the Olympic standard at the all-around national championships] (in Czech). Czech Athletics Federation. 18 July 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "IAAF Athens 2004: Women's Heptathlon". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ^ "Hejnová po výšce klesla na 26. místo" [Hejnová has dropped to twenty-sixth place in the rankings] (in Czech). Czech Athletics Federation. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
External links
edit- Michaela Hejnová at World Athletics
- Czech Olympic Team Bio (in Czech)
