Denisa Helceletová, formerly Rosolová, née Ščerbová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪsa ˈrosolovaː ˈʃtʃɛrbovaː]) (born 21 August 1986 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech former athlete who has won medals at the European Championships and European Indoor Championships.[1][2][3]
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| Birth name | Denisa Ščerbová | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 1986 Karviná, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long jump 400 m hurdles 400 metres Heptathlon 4 × 400m Relay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
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Rosolová's main event is the long jump, but she also competes in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump (July 2004 in Grosseto) and 5,828 points in the heptathlon (July 2006 in Tábor). Since 2001, she has been a member of AK SSK Vítkovice, an athletic club in Ostrava; her coach is Aleš Duda.
Rosolová took the silver medal in the long jump at the 2003 U17 World Championships in Sherbrooke and won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto. She came 25th in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also competed in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg but had to pull out because of an ankle injury.
At the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Rosolová matched her Czech indoor long jump record of 6.64 m and came in third, beating Bianca Kappler by one centimetre and winning her first major senior medal.[4] As of March 2007, she was several-time champion of the Czech Republic (one outdoor and three indoor titles in the long jump and one title in the heptathlon). In February 2008 she improved her own indoor national record in pentathlon to 4632 points.[5] In 2012, Rosolová started to compete in the 400 m hurdles and in her first season, she almost beat Zuzana Hejnová's national record.[6]
Rosolová won a bronze medal with the Czech 4x400 metres relay at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[7]
Personal life
editIn November 2008 she married tennis player Lukáš Rosol.[8] In 2011, they divorced.[9] On 7 November 2017 Rosolová announced her pregnancy and an end of her athletic career.[10] On 15 June 2019 she married athlete Adam Helcelet.[11] She has two daughters with Helcelet, born in May 2018 and September 2021.[12]
References
edit- ^ "Denisa Helceletová". Czech Athletics Federation (in Czech). Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ Denisa Helceletová at World Athletics
- ^ "Denisa Rosolová". EAA. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "Ščerbová skončila v dálce na ME třetí". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 3 March 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Čeští atleti lámali v Sheffieldu rekordy". Deník (in Czech). 4 February 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Rosolová excelovala na 400 m př., Maslák vyrovnal český rekord na 200 m". Deník (in Czech). 17 June 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "GREAT SHAKES STRIKES TWICE, LAVILLENIE DEFENDS IN DRAMATIC POLE VAULT AT EUROPEAN INDOORS". iaaf.org. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ^ "Atletka Denisa Ščerbová si vzala tenistu Lukáše Rosola". Deník (in Czech). Vltava Labe Media. 14 November 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ "Atletka Denisa a tenista Lukáš Rosolovi se rozvádí". Blesk (in Czech). Czech News Center. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ "Rosolová ukončila atletickou kariéru, je těhotná". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Mafra. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Bývalá manželka tenisty Rosola se vdala: Měla trápení s novým příjmením!". Blesk (in Czech). Czech News Center. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ "Nový přírůstek do štafety, okomentoval narození druhé dcery atlet Helcelet". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Mafra. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
External links
edit- Denisa Rosolová, Strong, fast and so beautiful! a Czech 400m runner on YouTube
- Interview and photo gallery at Xman.cz (in Czech)
Media related to Denisa Rosolová at Wikimedia Commons
