Eva Bosáková
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Born | Mladá Boleslav | December 18, 1931||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eva Bosáková-Hlaváčková, née Věchtová (18 December 1931 in Mladá Boleslav – 10 November 1991 in Prague)[1] was a gymnast from Czechoslovakia 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.
During the time period of 1958-1962, Bosakova and her famous teammate Věra Čáslavská were always the two highest-scoring Czechoslovakian women gymnasts at the largest, most prestigious championships during those years - the 1958 World Championships, 1959 European Championships, 1960 Olympics, 1961 European Championships, and 1962 World Championships. As a very strong "one-two punch", they continued the Czechoslovakian legacy in the sport of Women's Artistic Gymnastics established by the sport's first-ever Women's World All-Around Champion Vlasta Děkanová, and others such as Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Matylda Pálfyová, and Zdeňka Honsová. Bosáková and Čáslavska led the Czechoslovakian women's gymnastics team to three successive World/Olympic silver medals in a row (1958 Worlds, 1960 Olympics, 1962 Worlds), therefore being the foremost challengers to the dominant Soviet women's team during that era.
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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, Bosakova became a member of the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble and later became a coach in her home country. She starred in the 1963 film Something Different, directed by Věra Chytilová.
See also[]
- List of top medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
References[]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eva Bosáková". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
External links[]
- "Czechoskovak Life - Eva Bosakova". Gymn Forum. 2002-04-25. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
- "Results : Gymn Forum". Gymn-forum.net. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
- "Innovators in Gymnastics". Gymn Forum. 2004-04-02. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
- 1931 births
- 1991 deaths
- Czech female artistic gymnasts
- Czechoslovak female artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts of Czechoslovakia
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- World champion gymnasts
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Mladá Boleslav