Zdeňka Šilhavá, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Zdeňka Šilhavá

Czech discus thrower and shot putter

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1954

Place of Birth: Krnov, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Profession: discus thrower, shot putter

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Zdenka Bartonová-Šilhavá (born 15 June 1954 in Krnov, Czechoslovakia) is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of 74.56 metres (244.6 ft).
That mark still is the national record.Šilhavá represented Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in sixth place (67.84 metres (222.6 ft)) in the women's discus, and in eleventh place in the women's shot put event (18.86 metres (61.9 ft)).
She threw again in the 1996 Summer Olympics at the age of 42.
Three years after the Olympics, she threw masters W45 world records in both the shot put and discus that still stand.