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Zdeňka Veřmiřovská

Personal information

Born

(1913-06-27)June 27, 1913
Kopřivnice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary

Died

May 13, 1997(1997-05-13) (aged 83)
Prague, Czech Republic

Gymnastics career

Discipline

Women's artistic gymnastics

Country represented

Czechoslovakia

Medal record

Representing Czechoslovakia

Olympic Games
	1948 London	Team
	1936 Berlin	Team
World Championships
	1934 Budapest	Team
	1938 Prague	Team
	1938 Prague	All-around
	1938 Prague	Uneven Bars

Zdeňka Veřmiřovská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈzdɛɲka ˈvɛr̝mɪr̝ofskaː]) (June 27, 1913, Kopřivnice, Moravia – May 13, 1997) was a Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics receiving silver in the team event, and in the 1948 Summer Olympics winning gold in the team event.

She was born in Kopřivnice and died in Prague.

Veřmiřovská was a long-time mainstay of the Czechoslovakian women's gymnastics team, helping her team to gold at the inaugural World Championships for women in 1934. She demonstrated consistent excellence by helping her team successfully defend their world team champion status at the next World Championships in 1938. She showed enough tenacity to persevere and help her team to gold again, a whole 14 years after initially helping them to their first world team title, at the 1948 London Summer Olympics, despite weathering the disappointment she and her teammates sustained when they lost the team title to the German team at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.

Veřmiřovská was an exceptionally good competitor on balance beam. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, she logged the competition's second-highest optional balance beam exercise score of 14.10, tied with Germany's Erna Bürger, and only behind top-scorer Gabriella Mészáros of Hungary. Her combined compulsory and optional exercise total of 23.10 on this apparatus was second outright, behind, again, only Mészáros. At the 1948 London Summer Olympics, she performed even more brilliantly in her voluntary exercise on this apparatus, garnering a first-place finish for that part of the competition.

Veřmiřovská was also a virtuoso who excelled in the all-around combined exercises. At the first-ever world championships for women in 1934, where individual and team placements were decided not only by gymnastics events, but also athletics events, in the gymnastics-events-only segment of the competition, she logged the 2nd-highest total of 30.85, ahead of even her teammate, the first-ever women's World All-Around Champion in the sport Vlasta Děkanová, and just behind Judit Tóth of Hungary. (The scores in the athletics events, combined with the gymnastics events, meant that Děkanová was the highest overall-finisher at those games, whereas Veřmiřovská finished 5th.) Veřmiřovská actually repeated the feat of defeating Děkanová when, incredibly, both still competing after World War II, they were the top 2 competitors at a domestic (Czechoslovakian) gymnastics competition held on 6 October 1946. Dozens of participants competed, including 3 individuals who were on the Olympic team less than 2 years later: Miloslava Misáková, Olga Šilhánová, and Věra Růžičková, all outscored by many percentage points by both Veřmiřovská and Děkanová who were in a class by themselves, despite both being well into their thirties. Veřmiřovská scored 67.2 points, or 96% of the maximum possible score of 70, while Děkanová placed 2nd with 66.7 points, at 95.28% of the maximum possible score. The next-highest competitor was Bozena Kalova who scored a full 5 percentage points lower than Dekanova. The majority of the other gymnasts scored under 76% of the maximum possible score.

Veřmiřovská achieved what was probably her greatest individual accolade in her competitive career at the 1938 World Championships where she won the silver medal in the All-Around just behind her teammate Děkanová who successfully defended her 1st-place finish from the immediately previous worlds in 1934. Additionally, she had a high placement of 7th in the individual standings at the 1936 Olympics.

References

^ "1938: The First All-Around World Champion in Women's Gymnastics". Gymnastics-History.com. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
^ "1934: Women Compete at the World Championships for the First Time". Gymnastics-History.com. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
^ David Cecil, ed. (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF). London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. p. 402. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
^ THE XIth OLYMPIC GAMES BERLIN, 1936, OFFICIAL REPORT (PDF). Berlin: Wilhelm Limpert. 1936. pp. 870–871. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
"Vysledky vyhledavaciho zavodu zen 6. Rijna 1946 v Tyrsov dome" [The results of the women's search office on 6 October 1946 in Tyrs's house]. Sokolsky Vestnik (in Czech). Vol. 44, no. 41. November 11, 1946. p. 529. Retrieved December 21, 2020.

External links

Zdenka Vermirovská at databaseOlympics.com
Official Olympic Report 1936
Official Olympic Report 1948
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-06-15.

v t e Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team All-Around
Summary
1928: Netherlands 1936: Germany 1948: Czechoslovakia 1952: Soviet Union 1956: Soviet Union 1960: Soviet Union 1964: Soviet Union 1968: Soviet Union 1972: Soviet Union 1976: Soviet Union 1980: Soviet Union 1984: Romania 1988: Soviet Union 1992: Unified Team 1996: United States 2000: Romania 2004: Romania 2008: China 2012: United States 2016: United States 2020: ROC 2024: United States
1948: Czechoslovakia (TCH), Zdeňka Honsová, Marie Kovářová, Miloslava Misáková, Milena Müllerová, Věra Růžičková, Olga Šilhánová, Božena Srncová, Zdeňka Veřmiřovská