Miloslava Rezková

Milena Rezková (actually Miloslava Rezková temporarily Hübnerová; born July 22, 1950 in Prague ) is a Czech former high jumper, the 1968 Olympic champion was starting for Czechoslovakia.

With 1.69 m, it was unusually small for a high jumper. Only beyond the age of 20 she still grew 5 cm. Apart from their size, she was handicapped by recurrent hip problems as well as their short-sightedness ( 3 diopters ). As they took off the glasses before each jump, she could see the bar is blurred. She started for the club Red Star Prague.

Life

Together with her sister she grew up in Holešovice, where she attended Masaryk school. The sporty and talented girls danced ballet and operational rhythmic gymnastics. For athletics, she came by accident when she took a sick classmate in a high jump competition and won on felling. As a 13 - year-old she had recorded a personal best of 1.33 m.

She stepped into the public spotlight in 1968 when she nad Nisou Jablonec surprisingly won the national championship. At the beginning of their personal best had stood at 1.66 m. In the indoor season, she could be increased to 1.70 m. Now made ​​in Jablonec an explosive performance to 1.82 m. The advice of their coach Rudolf Hübner to let themselves through nothing from the rest, she followed a peculiar way: At the Olympic Games in Mexico City they passed the time between jumps with the reading of Jerome K. Jerome's book Three cheerful man in a boat, which they laughed heartily at times.

After their two gold medals at the 1968 Olympic Games and the European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, she was able to win more medals no further. Their victories height of Athens handed two years later at the European Championships in Helsinki only for fifth place at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich she came with 1.82 m in 15th place, and at the European Championships 1974 in Rome, it was 1.86 m Fifth.

Four times, it was national Master (1968, 1969, 1972, 1974). In 1969 she was awarded the Czechoslovak athlete of the year. Your last competition they played in 1977 in Tallinn.

Your marriage in 1970 with Rudolf Hübner failed. The single mother of Linda (* 1975) and Jiří (* 1982 ) has been employed by Red Star Prague as a youth coach. Miloslava Rezková referred her life with the exception of the years as a top athlete as "very ordinary ".

International rankings

• Olympic games 1968 in Mexico City: gold with 1.82 m in front of the Russian Antonina Okorokowa and the Ukrainian Walentyna Kozyr each with 1.80 m 1972 Munich: As 15 for the final battle not qualified
• European Championships 1969 Athens: Gold with 1.83 m in front of Antonina Lazareva ( - Okorokowa ) and her compatriot Maria Mrachnová ( The first four jumped over 1.83 m. ) 1971 in Helsinki: Fifth at 1.83 m ( height of the Austrian victories Ilona Gusenbauer: 1.87 m) 1973 Rotterdam (Hall ): Sixth 1974 in Rome: Fifth at 1.86 m ( height of victory Rosemarie Witschas (DDR ): 1.95 m ) 1975 Katowice (Hall ): Eleventh