Milena Duchková

Milena Duchková
Medal record
Women's diving
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City Platform
Silver medal – second place 1972 Munich Platform
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1973 Belgrade Platform
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1970 Barcelona Platform
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1973 Moscow Platform
Silver medal – second place 1973 Moscow Springboard

Milena Duchková (born 25 April 1952 in Prague) is a Czech diver. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal in Platform Diving.[1] She received a silver medal in 1972.

Personal life

In late 1980, Duchková applied for permanent Canadian residency, along with her husband Petr Neveklovsky, then 33 years old and 22-month-old daughter Misa. Although her husband could only speak very little English, he was a highly regarded volleyball coach. Outside of diving, Duchková was also registered as a doctor, dentist and an oral surgeon, with hopes to open her own practice in Newfoundland following acceptance of their residency application. The family were concerned about raising their daughter in Czechoslovakia, according to her diving coach Don Webb, who had arranged for her one-year visa in Canada.[2]

Awards

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1983.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Diving" Archived 2008-09-29 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 13, 2008)
  2. ↑ "Medal-winning Czech diver seeks to remain in Canada". Lethbridge Herald. October 21, 1980. p. 23 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
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