Katerina Smutna
Kateřina Smutná ( born June 13, 1983 in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech, Austrian cross-country skier now.
Life
Smutná began as her mother as a child in gymnastics, but decided at age eleven to operate prefer cross-country skiing. Your first international assignment had Smutná at the Junior World Championships in 2001 in Karpacz. There, her best result of the 41st place over a distance of 5 km was classic. A year later, in Schonach could occupy the 13th place the classical specialist about 15 km classic ( mass start ). At the beginning of the 2002/ 03 Smutná was inducted into the Czech national team, and came to their first World Cup competition. At the World Cup in Kiruna, she took about 5 km freestyle the 65th place among 73 starters. When Sprint World Cup in Cogne she missed as 33 just their first World Cup points. Due to health problems in advance they could not improve their performance in the previous year Sollefteå at the Junior World Championship in 2003. About 5 km classic was 16th and 18th in the sprint Nevertheless, she was nominated for the 2003 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy. There they occupied 10-kilometer classic and schlechtplatzierteste Czech athlete of the 51st place. After this poor result under its then- Czech coach Stanislav Fruehauf sabotage and threw them two days later from the national squad.
After Smutná 2004 and 2005 could only participate in smaller FIS races, she went with her discoverer and exercise bike Radim Duda on the search for a new athletic home. The two were successful in Saalfelden in Austria. After the Austrian Ski also be interested in Smutná had expressed, it was in March 2006 officially Austrian citizen. Since the season 2006/07, it belongs to the Austrian World Cup team. Already in November 2006, she managed to win with number 22 in the sprint in Kuusamo their first World Cup points. A day later, it was over a distance of 10 km classic even 17 your best season result were each tenth place in the sprint in Otepaeae and Drammen. She finished the season with 30th place in the overall standings of the Sprint Cup and No. 41 in the World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo 2007, she reached the semi-finals in the sprint competition, finishing in eleventh place. In the 2007 /08 season Smutná managed the sprint in Stockholm with her seventh place until then best career result. On 16 January 2009 she reached fourth place in the sprint event in Vancouver, Canada.