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Achievements

Achievements

Věra Čáslavská

1964,1966,1967,1968	Sportsmen of the year
1968	The best world sportwomen and 2nd most known world women
1989	Prize of Pierra de Coubertina, by International Committee, fair play by UNESCO
1991	Inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame
1991	Olympic Order, by International Olympic Committee
1995	State Medal of Merit Medal II. degree, by prezident Vaclav Havel
2010	Japanese Order by Japanese ambasador Mr. Harada in Prague residence
2014	Prize of Hanno R. Ellenbogenové
2016	Prize of Gratias Agit for good name of the Czech Republic abroad

Medals

Summer Olympic Games

gold	Tokyo 1964	All around
gold	Tokyo 1964	Vault
gold	Tokyo 1964	Beam
gold	Mexico City 1968	All around
gold	Mexico City 1968	Unveven bars
gold	Mexico City 1968	Floor
gold	Mexico City 1968	Vault
silver	Řím 1960	Team
silver	Tokyo 1964	Team
silver	Mexico City 1968	Beam
silver	Mexico City 1968	Team

World Championships

gold	Prague 1962	Vault
gold	Dortmund 1966	All around
gold	Dortmund 1966	Vault
silver	Prague 1962	All around
silver	Dortmund 1966	Beam
silver	Dortmund 1966	Floor
bronze	Prague 1962	Floor

Created: 28 November 2018

Czech Design Week and Věra Čáslavská

Vera Caslavska Foundation has launched a partnership with Czech Design Week. Linking the two organizations are the festivities commemorating the 50^thanniversary of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico (going on now through January, 2019), as well as the 100^thanniversary of the founding of the Czech Republic.

Created: 06 November 2018

A reminder of Věra Čáslavská’s legacy linking Prague and Mexico City

A spectacle of festivities is underway in Mexico City commemorating the 50^thanniversary of the Summer Olympics of 1968: a year that left its mark on Czech as well as world history. The most successful female athlete of the Olympics, and of the year 1968, was Czechoslovak gymnast Věra Čáslavská. Her popularity went beyond the world of sports. That same year, she was the second most popular woman on the planet, after former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Created: 12 October 2018

The Exhibition Věra 68 in Mexico City

On October 12, 1968, the Games of the XIX Olympiad opened in Mexico. Věra Čáslavská successfully defended her victories from the previous Summer Olympics in Tokyo, winning 4 gold medals and 2 silver Olympic medals. Mexico was also the culmination of her athletic career and after the Olympics closed, she married track and field athlete Josef Odložil. In 1968, she was declared the greatest female athlete in the world; she was the second most popular woman on the planet after Jacqueline Kennedy.

Věra Čáslavská

For the individual who is willing to take the risk and confront the world with courage, a huge reward awaits.

The reward is SELF-ESTEEM.

Věra Čáslavská, Život na Olympu

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