Maria Homolova
Personal information
Country represented Slovakia
Born (1987-09-29) September 29, 1987
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
(Slovakia national team)
Years on national team1997 - 2012

Maria Homolova (born 29 September 1987, Zvolen[1]) is a former Slovak female artistic gymnast and member of the national team. She participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.[2][3] This was her first Olympic Games, having narrowly missed qualifying for both the Athens and Beijing Games (missing out in 2008 by three one-hundredths of a point).[4] After suffering many injuries during her career (including a damaged Achillies tendon in the run up to the 2008 Olympics), she retired after the 2012 Olympics.[5]

She was the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 and 2011 Slovakian national gymnastics champion in the all-around.[6][7] She was also junior champion in 2000, 2001 and 2003.[7]

She has studied Media Communications.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Mária Homolová Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  2. ↑ "2011 World Gymnastics Championships athletes - Maria Homolova". longinestiming.com. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "BBC Sport - London 2012 Olympics - Maria Homolova : Slovakia, Gymnastics - Artistic". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  4. ↑ s., P E R E X , a. (2012-07-14). "Londýn bude vrcholom kariéry, tvrdí slovenská gymnastka Homolová - Pravda.sk". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2017-05-06.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Azet.sk. "Gymnastka Mária Homolová: Po olympiáde začína od nuly". aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  6. 1 2 s., SPORT.SK, s.r.o. & Azet.sk, a. "Mária Homolová" (in Slovak). Retrieved 2017-05-06.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. 1 2 3 a.s., Petit Press. "Mária Homolová: Naučila som sa prekonávať samu seba". zena.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2017-05-06.
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