Šárka Kašpárková
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| Women's Athletics | ||
Representing  Czech Republic
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | Triple jump |
| World Championships | ||
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1997 Athens | Triple jump |
| World Indoor Championships | ||
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1997 Paris | Triple jump |
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1999 Maebashi | Triple jump |
| European Championships | ||
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1998 Budapest | Triple jump |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
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1996 Stockholm | Triple jump |
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1998 Valencia | Triple jump |
Šárka Kašpárková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈʃaːrka ˈkaʃpaːrkovaː]) (born 20 May 1971 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a former Czech track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.
She attended her first Summer Olympics in 1992, participating in the high jump. She switched to the triple jump when it was given world championships status and won an Olympic bronze medal in the discipline at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She won another bronze at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and improved further by becoming the world champion at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics – her winning jump of 15.20 m was the second farthest ever at the time.
She won both the indoor and outdoor silver medals at the European Athletics Championships. She won the bronze at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships with her personal best indoor jump of 14.87 m, but failed to reach the podium at any major championships after that point, suffering a sharp decline in form.
At 1.86 metres tall, Kašpárková started her professional athletics career as a high jumper and finished sixth at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She won the bronze medal in the 1989 European Athletics Junior Championships, and she went on to participate in the women's high jump at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for Czechoslovakia. Her last period as a high jumper also brought her best performance – she jumped a personal best of 1.95 m in Banská Bystrica in early 1993.
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