Petra Klosová

Petra Klosová (born 16 April 1986) is a Czech swimmer who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian and a multiple-time national champion and record holder for the freestyle and backstroke events (50, 100, and 200 m).[2]

Petra Klosová
Personal information
Full namePetra Klosová
National team Czech Republic
Born (1986-04-16) 16 April 1986
Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, backstroke
College teamSouthern Methodist University (U.S.)

Olympic participation

Klosová made her first Czech team, as an eighteen-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, Klosová 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.[3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Klosová competed as an individual swimmer in the 100 m backstroke. Leading up to her second Games, she cleared a FINA B-cut of 1:02.98 at the Missouri Grand Prix in Columbia, Missouri.[4] 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 (0.6) behind Mexico's Fernanda González, with a time of 1:02.76. Klosová failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.[5]

Club swimming

Klosová was also a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of international studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She was a member of the Kopřivnice swimming team, but changed clubs to swim with Nový Jičín in 2011.[6] She retired from competitive swimming in May 2012.[7]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petra Klosová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. "Czech National Championships Continue Through Second Day of Swimming". Swimming World Magazine. 14 July 2007. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  3. "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. "SMU Women's Swimming Places Two In Top 10 on Final Day of Missouri Grand Prix". SMU Mustangs. 18 February 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  5. "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  6. "Plavkyně Klosová změnila klub a pomýšlí na olympiádu". idnes.cz (in Czech). 19 May 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  7. "Petra Klosová: S Phelpsem jsem konec kariéry neprobírala". denik.cz (in Czech). 13 January 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
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