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Věra Čáslavská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvjɛra ˈtʃaːslafskaː]; 3 May 1942 – 30 August 2016) was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.
Věra Čáslavská, provdaná Věra Odložilová (3. května 1942 Praha – 30. srpna 2016 Praha) byla československá sportovní gymnastka, trenérka a sportovní funkcionářka, sedminásobná olympijská vítězka, čtyřnásobná mistryně světa, jedenáctinásobná mistryně Evropy a čtyřnásobná Sportovkyně roku Československa.
Věra Čáslavská was a Czech gymnast who won a total of 34 medals, including 22 gold medals, at the Olympic Games and at world and European championships in the 1950s and ’60s. Her career was curtailed after she expressed support for greater freedom in her homeland.
As the most successful female gymnast of the 1960s, Vera Caslavska of the Czech Republic has achieved worldwide admiration for not only her dominating performances, but her dignified defiance of political and social strife in her homeland.
Oct 20, 2018 · Vera Caslavska won seven gold and four silver Olympic medals at three different Olympic Games
Vera CASLAVSKA was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast who won seven Olympic medals, including four golds, in 1960 and 1964. She defied Soviet oppression by signing a manifesto and hiding in the mountains before the 1968 Games, where she became a folk hero.
Aug 31, 2016 · Vera Caslavska, a Czech gymnast whose seven Olympic gold medals in the 1960s made her a dominant figure in the sport and whose public opposition to the Soviet invasion of her homeland ended her...
