Martina_Kniezkova

Martina Kniezková

Martina Kniezková

Czech Paralympic athlete

Martina Kniezková (21 August 1975 – 24 February 2015) was a Paralympian athlete from the Czech Republic who competeted mainly in category F52 discus events.

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Kniezková was born 21 August 1975 in Havířov. She competed in three Paralympic Games, each time in the discus and javelin. Her first appearance in the 2000 Summer Paralympics was her most successful, winning the F51-54 discus and finishing second in the F52-54 javelin. Then in 2004 in Athens she defended her discus title in the F32-34/51-53 class but couldn't quite win a medal in the javelin. In Beijing in the 2008 Summer Paralympics she was unable to win a medal in either the discus or javelin. She died on 24 February 2015.[1]

References

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    "Smutná zpráva – opustila nás zlatá paralympionička Martina Kniezková" [Sad news - the golden Paralympian Martina Kniezková has left us]. Vozíčkář (in Czech). Archived from the original on 20 March 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2017.


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