Soňa Nováková

As of July 3, 2012

Soňa Novakova - Dosoudilová ( born October 6, 1975 in Olomouc) is a Czech volleyball and beach volleyball player. On sand she was twice European champion, won world bronze and participated in two Olympic tournaments.

Career

Volleyball

The setter played in the season 1999/2000 in their home at Královo Pole. She then moved to Austria, where she won the 2005 and 2006 twice the national championship with telecom Post Wien over the years. After a year break, she went to Greece for Iraklis Kifissia Athens. Novakova 2009 returned back home and was in her first season at UK Prostějov Czech champion. In 2011 she moved on to league rivals PVK Přerov.

Beach volleyball

Novakova graduated in 1996 its first international Beach tournament with Eva Celbová. In the same year she was with her partner in Pescara by a final victory against the German duo Bühler / Müsch European champion. The duo reached the following year several top -tone finishes in Open tournaments and participated in the first World Cup in Los Angeles, which is handed to a ninth. At the European Championships in Riccione, the defending champions picked up bronze this time. The next continental tournament in Rhodes again they decided for themselves. The following year Celbová / Novakova occupied at the World Championships in Marseille 17th place, while they won their next medal at the European Championships in Palma as third parties.

The Olympic tournament in Sydney they finished after a defeat in the second round against the Japanese women Takahashi / Saiki than ninth. Successful was the World Cup 2001; in Klagenfurt were the Czechs with his victory over the U.S. women Youngs / Fontana third parties. 2002 in Basel, there was the third time EM bronze. The next two tournaments in 2003 and 2004 in Alanya Timmendorfer beach ended for Celbová / Novakova in ninth and four. Between these two competitions they played at the 2003 World Cup and had to in the second round to eventual champions Walsh / May- Treanor defeated in three sets. At her second Olympic tournament Celbová / Novakova excreted in Athens in 2004 again in the second round against McPeak / Youngs.

After two open tournaments in 2006, the longtime partners split. At the European Championships in 2007 Novakova subject with their new team-mate Petra Novotná the German duo Goller / Ludwig and Holt Wick / Semmler. Two years later and Lenka Novakova Háječková lost at the World Championships in Stavanger the next round against the Austrian sister Doris and Stefanie Schwaiger. Since 2010 Novakova forms a duo with Tereza Tobiasova who was at her side in 2008. At the World Cup 2011 Novakova / Tobiasova eliminated in the first round against the Brazilians Talita / Antonelli.