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Dana Zátopková

1922 - 2020

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Dana Zátopková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdana ˈzaːtopkovaː]; née Ingrová [ˈɪŋɡrovaː], 19 September 1922 – 13 March 2020) was a Czech javelin thrower. She won the gold medal for javelin at the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m), and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dana Zátopková has received more than 128,342 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Dana Zátopková is the 72nd most popular athlete (down from 52nd in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 237th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Athlete.

Dana Zátopková is most famous for being the first woman to win a world championship in the sport of skeleton.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Dana Zátopková ranks 72 out of 6,025. Before her are Yelena Isinbayeva, Vera Krepkina, Shizo Kanakuri, Irena Szewińska, Jürgen Schult, and Irving Baxter. After her are Mohammed Gammoudi, Merlene Ottey, Lee Haney, Dorando Pietri, Fritz Hofmann, and Vladimir Kuts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Dana Zátopková ranks 138. Before her are Gershon Kingsley, Cyd Charisse, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, András Hegedüs, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Russ Meyer. After her are Vasili Mitrokhin, Elissa Aalto, Fikret Amirov, Dilip Kumar, Tadeusz Borowski, and Manolis Glezos. Among people deceased in 2020, Dana Zátopková ranks 139. Before her are Albert Memmi, Ivry Gitlis, Gene Deitch, Margaret Burbidge, Sergei Khrushchev, and Jean Kennedy Smith. After her are Amfilohije Radović, Ben Cross, Georg Ratzinger, Manolis Glezos, Mustafa Nadarević, and Claude Bolling.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Dana Zátopková ranks 258 out of 1,200. Before her are Vincenz Priessnitz (1799), Beatrice of Luxembourg (1305), Václav Neumann (1920), Max Dvořák (1874), Karel Reisz (1926), and Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796). After her are Wojciech Żywny (1756), Otto Wichterle (1913), Alois Eliáš (1890), Vilém Mathesius (1882), Pavel Haas (1899), and Jan Stráský (1940).

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Among ATHLETES In Czechia

Among athletes born in Czechia, Dana Zátopková ranks 3. Before her are Emil Zátopek (1922), and Jan Železný (1966). After her are Dominik Hašek (1965), Ludvík Daněk (1937), František Pospíšil (1944), Olga Fikotová (1932), Helena Fibingerová (1949), František Janda-Suk (1878), Jaroslav Holík (1942), Karel Mejta Sr (1928), and František Čapek (1914).

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