Martina Sáblíková

Martina Sáblíková

Personal information
Born	(1987-05-27) 27 May 1987 (age 29) Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
Country	Czech Republic
Sport	Speed skating, Cycling
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 3 1 1 World Championships 17 6 1 European Championships 5 3 1 Winter Universiade 2 0 0 World Junior Championships 0 1 0 Total 26 11 3 Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver 3000 m 2010 Vancouver 5000 m 2014 Sochi 5000 m 2014 Sochi 3000 m 2010 Vancouver 1500 m World Championships 2007 Salt Lake City 3000 m 2007 Salt Lake City 5000 m 2008 Nagano 5000 m 2009 Hamar Allround 2009 Vancouver 5000 m 2010 Heerenveen Allround 2011 Inzell 5000 m 2012 Heerenveen 3000 m 2012 Heerenveen 5000 m 2013 Sochi 5000 m 2015 Heerenveen 3000 m 2015 Heerenveen 5000 m 2015 Calgary Allround 2016 Kolomna 3000 m 2016 Kolomna 5000 m 2016 Berlin Allround 2017 Gangneung 5000 m 2009 Vancouver 3000 m 2011 Inzell 3000 m 2012 Moscow Allround 2013 Sochi 3000 m 2017 Gangneung 3000 m 2017 Hamar Allround 2011 Calgary Allround European Championships 2007 Collalbo Allround 2010 Hamar Allround 2011 Collalbo Allround 2012 Budapest Allround 2016 Minsk Allround 2015 Chelyabinsk Allround 2017 Heerenveen Allround 2008 Kolomna Allround 2009 Heerenveen Allround 2014 Hamar Allround Winter Universiade 2013 Trentino 3000 m 2013 Trentino 5000 m World Junior Championships 2006 Erfurt Allround

Martina Sáblíková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmarcɪna ˈsaːbliːkovaː]) (born 27 May 1987) is a Czech speed skater, specializing in long distance races. She is an Olympic gold medal winner and a multiple European and World allround champion. She became the first Czech to win two Olympic gold medals at one Winter Games in the 2010 Olympiad. Sáblíková also competes in inline speed skating and road cycling races as a part of her summer preparation for the skating season. In cycling, she focuses especially on individual time trial discipline in which Sáblíková possesses multiple Czech Republic National Championships titles and belongs to world's top 15 female time-trialists. Sáblíková is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.

As a junior, Sáblíková already achieved some notable results during international tournaments. In 2005, she came seventh in the 5000 m during the World Single Distance Championships. On 18 November 2005, she skated the 3000 m junior world record 4:00.69 in Salt Lake City. She became Czech youth champion in 1999, 2001 and 2004.

In the 2006 European allround championships in Hamar, she finished fourth overall, by placing third at the 3000 m and winning the 5000 m. At the 5000 meter she surprisingly beat favorite Claudia Pechstein.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she finished fourth in the 5000 m, behind Clara Hughes, Claudia Pechstein and Cindy Klassen. During her race against Klassen she was more than three seconds faster in the last round, but eventually missed the bronze medal by a second.

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