Petra Klosová
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Petra Klosová |
| National team |
 Czech Republic |
| Born |
16 April 1986 Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke |
| Club | KVS Koprivnice |
| College team | Southern Methodist University (U.S.) |
| Coach | Vlastimir Perna |
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]
Klosova 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, Klosova 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, Klosova 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. Klosova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.[5]
Klosova 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.
References
- ↑ "Petra Klosová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ↑ "Czech National Championships Continue Through Second Day of Swimming". Swimming World Magazine. 14 July 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 13 January 2013.