Dana Zátopková, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dana Zátopková

Czech javelin thrower

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1922

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

Profession: athletics competitor, javelin thrower

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Dana Zátopková (Czech pronunciation: ['dana 'za?topkova?]; née Ingrová ['??grova?], born 19 September 1922) is a Czech former javelin thrower.
She won the gold medal for javelin in the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m), and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958.
She also set a world record in 1958 (55.73 m) when she was 35, making her the oldest woman to break one in an outdoor athletics event. Zátopková and her husband were the witnesses at the wedding ceremony of Olympic gold medalists Olga Fikotová and Harold Connolly in Prague in 1957.
Emil spoke to the Czechoslovak president Antonín Zápotocký to request help in Olga getting a permit to marry Connolly.
While it's not clear how much this helped, they surprisingly received a permit a few days later.