Eva Bosáková

Eva Bosáková
Eva Bosáková in c. 1960
Personal information
Born(1931-12-18)18 December 1931
Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia
Died10 January 1991(1991-01-10) (aged 59)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Sport
Country Czechoslovakia
Medal record
Olympic Games
1960 Rome Balance Beam
1956 Melbourne Balance Beam
1960 Rome Team
1952 Helsinki Team
World Championships
1958 Moscow Floor Exercise
1962 Prague Balance Beam
1954 Rome All-Around
1954 Rome Balance Beam
1954 Rome Floor Exercise
1958 Moscow Team
1958 Moscow All-Around
1958 Moscow Uneven Bars
1962 Prague Team
1962 Prague Uneven Bars
1954 Rome Team
European Championships
1957 Bucharest Balance Beam
1957 Bucharest Floor Exercise
1959 Krakow Floor Exercise

Eva Bosáková-Hlaváčková, née Věchtová (18 December 1931 – 10 January 1991) was a Czech gymnast who represented Czechoslovakia. Her career spanned at least from the 1954 World Championships to the 1962 World Championships. Her father was also a gymnast for the Czech national team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.[1]

During the time period of 1958-1962, Bosakova and her famous teammate Věra Čáslavská were always the two highest-scoring Czechoslovak women gymnasts at the largest, most prestigious championships during those years – the 1958 World Championships, 1959 European Championships, 1960 Olympics, 1961 European Championships, and 1962 World Championships. As a very strong "one-two punch", they continued the Czechoslovak legacy in the sport of Women's Artistic Gymnastics established by the sport's first-ever Women's World All-Around Champion Vlasta Děkanová, and others such as Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, Matylda Pálfyová, and Zdeňka Honsová. Bosáková and Čáslavská led the Czechoslovak women's gymnastics team to three successive World/Olympic silver medals in a row (1958 Worlds, 1960 Olympics, 1962 Worlds), therefore being the foremost challengers to the dominant Soviet women's team during that era.

On balance beam, where she is credited for being the first woman gymnast to compete a cartwheel (at the 1956 Olympics), she was World (1962) and Olympic (1960) champion, and she was good enough on all four events combined to become All-Around silver medalist at two consecutive World Championships (1958, 1962).

After her competitive career was over, Bosáková became a member of the Czechoslovak Song and Dance Ensemble and later became a coach in her home country. She starred in the 1963 film Something Different, directed by Věra Chytilová, inspired in part by Bosáková's own gymnastic career.

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References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eva Bosáková". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
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