Petra Sičaková
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| Born | 14 April 2003 (age 22) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 60.91 m (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Petra Sičaková (born 14 April 2003) is a Czech javelin thrower. A Czech national champion for the first time in 2022, she competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. She won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]A member of AK Škoda Plzeň, she placed fifth in the U23 category in the javelin throw at the 2022 European Throwing Cup in Portugal.[2]
She won the silver medal in the U23 tournament at the 2023 European Throwing Cup in Leiria.[3] She became senior Czech national champion by winning the Czech Athletics Championships in July 2023 with a throw of 58.60 metres.[4]
She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where she did not reach the final from the preliminary heat, throwing 52.86 metres.[5][6] She made her Olympic debut at the age of 21 years-old at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, but did not progress to the final finishing fourteenth in her qualifying group.[7] She threw a new personal best of 60.91 metres whilst competing in Zagreb in September 2024.[8]
In July 2025, she won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway with a throw of 58.14 metres.[9] She was runner-up to Andrea Železná at the Czech Athletics Championships in August 2025.[10] She was selected as part of the Czech team to compete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Petra Sičaková". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ Váchal, Ondřej (12 March 2022). "Sičakové na Evropském poháru vrhačů vzal limit na MS chybující rozhodčí". Deník.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ "Devatero českých stop v Leirii". Atletika.cz (in Czech). 10 March 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ "Czech championships". World Athletics. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ "Na ME pojede 52 českých atletů, medaile budou obhajovat Vadlejch a Staněk". Livesport.cz (in Czech). 30 May 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ "Japonské oštěpařské zlato Kitagučiové se slavilo i v Domažlicích". České noviny (in Czech). Czech News Agency. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ "Sičaková skončila druhá v Záhřebu". Atletika.cz (in Czech). 8 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ "Czech Championships". World Athletics. 24 August 2025. Retrieved 18 September 2025.
- ^ "Nominace atletů pro mistrovské Tokio: 25 jmen, obhájce medaile i finálové naděje". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 1 September 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
