Country Czech Republic Name Denisa Rosolova Height 1.75 m | Sport Athletics Role Athlete Weight 68 kg | |
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Born August 21, 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-08-21 ) Spouse Lukas Rosol (m. 2008–2011) Events Long jump, 400 metres hurdles, 400 metres, Heptathlon, 4 × 400 metres relay People also search for Lukas Rosol, Diana Rosol, Emil Rosol | ||
Denisa Rosolova 2015, Strong, fast and so beautiful! a Czech 400m runner
Denisa Rosolova, nee Scerbova ( [ˈdenɪsa ˈrosolovaː ˈʃtʃerbovaː]) (born August 21, 1986 in Karvina, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech athlete who has won medals at the European Championships and European Indoor Championships.
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- Denisa Rosolova 2015 Strong fast and so beautiful a Czech 400m runner
- Biography
- Personal life
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Biography
Rosolova's main event is the long jump, but she also competes in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump (July 2004 in Grosseto) and 5,828 points in the heptathlon (July 2006 in Tabor). Since 2001, she has been a member of AK SSK Vitkovice, an athletic club in Ostrava; her coach is Ales Duda.
Rosolova took the silver medal in the long jump at the 2003 U17 World Championships in Sherbrooke and won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto. She came 25th in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She also competed in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg but had to pull out because of an ankle injury.
At the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Rosolova matched her Czech indoor long jump record of 6.64 m and came in third, beating Bianca Kappler by one centimetre and winning her first major senior medal. As of March 2007, she was several-time champion of the Czech Republic (one outdoor and three indoor titles in the long jump and one title in the heptathlon). In February 2008 she improved her own indoor national record in pentathlon to 4632 points. In 2012, Rosolova started to compete in the 400 m hurdles and in her first season, she almost beat Zuzana Hejnova's national record.
Rosolova won a bronze medal with the Czech 4x400 metres relay at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Personal life
In November 2008 she married tennis player Lukas Rosol. In 2011, they divorced.
