Politics does not belong in sports
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Šárka Kašpárková was born in May 1971 in Karviná, but she spent her entire childhood in Havířov. Since early age, she enjoyed sports, starting with basketball, but athletics became her discipline. At the sports grammar school in Brno she began to devote herself intensively to high jump and very soon started collecting the first prizes. Even before 1989, she used to go abroad to compete, for example at the Junior World Championships in Canada in 1988. She spent the Velvet Revolution as a student at the Faculty of Education in Ostrava, remembering the great fear of omnipresent police officers. Shortly after joining the university, injuries took place and she even thought of ending her sports career, but fortunately with the help of a capable coach, Šárka went on with it. In 1992, she attended the Olympic Games in Barcelona, and although she did not pass the qualifying race, it was still a great success for her. Then she switched from a high jump to a triple jump, which was the discipline she represented the Czech Republic at three other Olympic Games - in Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004). However, he considers the gold medal from the World Athletics Championships (1997) to be her greatest success. She ended her sports career in 2006. Today she works with children as part of the Sazka Olympic multi-sport. She has a daughter with his partner Michal, who was also her coach.
