Martina Sáblíková

Martina Sáblíková? / I ( born May 27, 1987 in Nové Město na Moravě ) is a Czech speed skater. She is a specialist in long - and medium-range multi- fighter. She is also in Speed ​​Skating and as a cyclist successfully.

Speed ​​skating career

Martina Sáblíková grew up with her parents with her younger brother in Zdar nad Sázavou and starts for the NOWIS team. As an eleven year old, she began her athletic career as a basketball player at BK Zdar nad Sázavou. Once there, they moved to speed skating, cycling and speed skating. In speed skating, she debuted in November 2002 at the World Cup in Erfurt. In November 2006, she reached for the first time in a World Cup race in Heerenveen a place in the top three. Twice she improved in November 2005, the junior world record in the 3,000 m, this is still valid today. In January 2007, Martina Sáblíková was in Italian rides with a score of 162.954 (outdoor world record) surprisingly all-around European Champion, while also improved the outdoor world record individual times about 3,000 and 5,000 m. She also holds the world record for the rarely spilled in the women's 10,000 m distance.

In 2006 Sáblíková first participated at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, where it was launched on the two long distances. Both over 3,000 m and 5,000 m she missed a medal, but at the 5,000 - meter race she had in fourth less than a second behind the bronze medal of Cindy Klassen. The 3,000 -meter race she finished in seventh.

After Sáblíková had already gone to the starting line at the ISU World Single Distance Championships in 2004 and 2005, but there had been less successful cut, it was 2007 World Champion on the two long-range 3,000 and 5,000 m in the year. A year later she was able to defend in the Nagano 5,000 m title, had in fourth over 3,000 m, however, give to Kristina Groves. Also at the 2009 World Championships she was able to defend the title in the 5,000 m.

In the all-around world championships Sáblíková had these successes not, here they could each achieve a fifth place in the years 2007 and 2008. She was also at the Junior World Cup in 2006, also in the four-way battle, silver medalist. Sáblíková could triumph even in the all around Only at European Championships, here dated her title from 2007, to 2008, she won the bronze medal.

In the overall World Cup Sáblíková get three wins in the 3.000/5.000 m World Cup, also about other distances, particularly over the 1500 meters, reach their Top 10 rankings. Overall, they reached 13 World Cup victories, nine more than 3,000 m and 5,000 m four. The only podium finish, which did not go over one of these two routes, was a second place over 1,500 m. About 1,000 meters you get only in the B- group ranks near the top ten. On the 500 m distance they went only once in the World Cup at the start and was 49

At times, coached Sáblíková in the Berlin group training of their great model Claudia Pechstein. As they had, however, achieved a performance that brought them into the world top and thus the German greats like Pechstein and Anni Friesinger vulnerable, she had to leave this training group again.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, she won two gold medals over 3,000 and 5,000 m. Sáblíková was over a distance of 5,000 meters in three years unbeaten, but was against the second, Stephanie Beckert, only with great difficulty to enforce 48- hundredths of a second.

Speedskating

In addition to the speed skating Sáblíková operating regularly in the summer speed skating on inline skates. In 2006 she won the first official Czech championship over the marathon distance.

Cycling career

Since 2007 Sáblíková the Czech national team belongs to in road cycling. The same year she finished third at the European Championships in Sofia road ( junior ). 2007 and 2008, they were each third at the national championships in the individual time trial. In June 2010, she was two-time Czech Champion in the road race and time trial. In the road world championship 2011, she is ranked 28 in the time trial. To prepare for the 2012 World Championships, she joined in July 2012 the UCI Women 's Team Dolmans Boel on. When ITT Sablikovà reached 9th place

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