Zdeňka Šilhavá

Olympic athlete

1954 –

70

Who is Zdeňka Šilhavá?

Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá 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. That mark still is the national record.

Šilhavá represented Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in sixth place in the women's discus, and in eleventh place in the women's shot put event.

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Born
Jun 15, 1954
Nationality
  • Czech Republic

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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