Taťána Kocembová
Taťána Kocembová (after marriage Slaninová; born May 2, 1962 in Ostrava ) is a former Czechoslovak sprinter. It was 1983 vice world champion in the 400 - meter dash and the 4 x 400 - meter relay.
After she became 1981 champion of Czechoslovakia in the 400 -meter run, she took at the European Indoor Championships in Milan in 1982 on her first major championship part. In 51.62 seconds she lay in fourth place 0.05 seconds behind Gaby Bussmann, won the bronze. Outdoors, she won the 1982 state championship in the 100 - meter dash and the 200 -meter run. At the European Championships in 1982 in Athens, she stepped up to the 400 -meter run and won bronze in 50.55 seconds with 2.4 seconds off the world record running Marita Koch and 1.7 seconds behind Jarmila Kratochvílová. In the 4 x 400 meters relay she ran in third position behind Vera Tylová and Milena Matějkovičová; they handed over to Kratochvílová that ensured after 3:22,17 minutes behind the silver relay from the GDR.
1983 Taťána Kocembová was re- country champion in the 200 meters. At the World Championships 1983 in Helsinki, they met again at about 400 meters. Kratochvílova won with a world record time of 47.99 seconds before Kocembová, who ran a personal best in 48.59 seconds. In the relay, she ran on, handed to Matějkovičová, followed by Zuzana Moravčíková and Kratochvílova. This quartet was able to reduce the gap to the GDR three seconds in Athens at 0.6 seconds, and again won silver.
At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in 1984 Kocembová won in 49.97 seconds. In the outdoor season 1984, she again won the national championship over 200 meters. On the 400 - meter course she could first defeat Kratochvílova their Jahresbestzeit had run 48.73 seconds in Prague. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she was unable to attend, as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic joined the Olympic boycott of the Soviet Union. In 1985 she won the national champion over 100 meters. In 1986, she was at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 53.16 seconds over 400 meters Fourth, outdoors, she was once again champion of Czechoslovakia about 200 meters.
After her marriage and the birth of her daughter in 1987, she joined in 1989 as Taťána Slaninová at the European Indoor Championships in The Hague and was in 54.16 seconds in five.
At a height of 1.69 m her competition weight was 55 kg.