Petra Klosova

Who is Petra Klosova?

Petra Klosová is a Czech swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian and a multiple-time national champion and record holder for the freestyle and backstroke events.

Klosova made her official debut, as an 18-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay, along with her fellow swimmers Jana Myšková, Sandra Kazíková, and Ilona Hlaváčková. Swimming the second leg, Klosova recorded a split of 56.49 seconds, and the Czech team went to finish heat one in seventh place, and thirteenth overall, for a total time of 3:46.83.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Klosova qualified as an individual swimmer for the 100 m backstroke, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 1:02.98 from the Missouri Grand Prix in Columbia, Missouri, United States. She challenged seven other swimmers in the third heat, including 14-year old Sarah Sjöström of Sweden, and three-time Olympian Sherry Tsai of Hong Kong. She raced to sixth place by six tenths of a second behind Mexico's Fernanda González, with a time of 1:02.76. Klosova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.