Miroslava Knapková
Czech rower
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Full name | Miroslava Topinková Knapková | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Mirka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1980-09-19) 19 September 1980 (age 43) Brno | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Miroslava "Mirka" Topinková Knapková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪroslava ˈknapkovaː], born 19 September 1980) is a Czech rower who competed in single scull.
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Knapková was born in 1980 in Brno in Czechoslovakia (since 1993 in the Czech Republic). Her father is Miroslav Knapek.[1] At the 2011 World Rowing Championships, she became world champion in single scull at Lake Bled, Slovenia.[2] She was the winner in the same discipline at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1] Between 2008 and 2015, she won the European Rowing Championships five times in this boat class.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Mirka Topinková Knapková". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Miroslava Topinkova Knapkova". World Rowing Federation. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
External links
- Miroslava Topinkova Knapkova at Olympics.com
- Miroslava Topinkova Knapkova at Olympic.org (archived)
- Miroslava Topinková Knapková at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)
- Miroslava Topinková Knapková at Olympic.cz (in Czech) (archived)
- Mirka Topinková Knapková at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Mirka Knapková at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Olympic champions – Women's single sculls
- 1976:
Christine Scheiblich (GDR)
- 1980:
Sanda Toma (ROU)
- 1984:
Valeria Răcilă (ROU)
- 1988:
Jutta Behrendt (GDR)
- 1992:
Elisabeta Lipă (ROU)
- 1996:
Ekaterina Karsten (BLR)
- 2000:
Ekaterina Karsten (BLR)
- 2004:
Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski (GER)
- 2008:
Rumyana Neykova (BUL)
- 2012:
Miroslava Knapková (CZE)
- 2016:
Kim Brennan (AUS)
- 2020:
Emma Twigg (NZL)
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