Jiřina Ptáčníková at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics
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Full name | Jiřina Ptáčníková |
Nationality | Czech |
Born |
Plzeň, Czechoslovakia |
May 20, 1986
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
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Country | Czech Republic |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Pole vault |
Club | USK Praha |
Coached by | František Ptáčník, Pavel Sluka |
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Jiřina Ptáčníková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjɪr̝ɪna ˈptaːtʃɲiːkovaː]; born 20 May 1986) is a Czech pole vaulter. She won the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and the 2014 World Indoor Championships.
She is the daughter of the Czech sprinter .
Ptáčníková achieved a personal best (indoor) of 4.70 metres in Donetsk in 2012. This was a Czech record. She improved to 4.71 m in 2014, which was also a Czech record.
She also achieved outdoor personal best of 4.76 metres in Plzeň in September 2013.
On 21 September 2012 she married the hurdler Petr Svoboda, however the couple divorced in 2014.