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Czech sprinter

Lada Vondrová

Vondrová during the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Personal information
Born (1999-09-06) 6 September 1999 (age 25)Nové Město na Moravě, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic
Height 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country Czech Republic
Sport Athletics
Event Sprinting
Club University Sports Club Prague[1]
Coached by František Ptáčník
Achievements and titles
Personal best 400 m: 50.92 (Budapest 2023)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the Czech Republic World Championships Bronze medal – third place 2023 Budapest 4×400 m mixed European Games Gold medal – first place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 4×400 m mixed Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk 4×400 m mixed European U23 Championships Gold medal – first place 2021 Tallinn 400 m Gold medal – first place 2021 Tallinn 4×400 m relay Silver medal – second place 2019 Gävle 400 m

Lada Vondrová (born 6 September 1999)[2] is a Czech track and field athlete who specializes in sprint races. She won several Czech national titles.

Vondrová competed in the women's 400 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships where she finished 13th in the semifinal.[3]

At the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar, Vondrová finished the semifinals of the 400 m event in 20th place.

She competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 400 metres, where she got a personal best of 51.14 seconds.[4]

At the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, Vondrová competed in the 200 metres, where she finished 11th overall with a time of 23.44 seconds. Later the same day, she would anchor the Czech mixed 4 x 400m relay team to a victory in a new national record of time of 3:12.34, an improvement of 2.5 seconds over the previous national record.

Later the same year, she would compete at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, in the mixed 4 x 400m relay as well as the individual 400 metres. The team consisting of Matěj Krsek, Tereza Petržilková, Patrik Šorm and Lada Vondrová finished 3rd in the second heat and would go on to take the bronze medal in the final, with a further improved national record time of 3:11.98. In the individual 400m, Vondrová would improve her personal best to 50.92 seconds in the heats. She would finish 19th in the semifinals, not progressing to the final.

  1. ^ "LADA VONDROVÁ - Athlete Card". Czech Athletics Federation. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Lada Vondrová". IAAF. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  3. ^ Start list
  4. ^ "Athletics VONDROVA Lada". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.