Vondrová during the2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1999-09-06)6 September 1999 (age 26) Nové Město na Moravě,Vysočina Region, Czech Republic |
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprinting |
| Club | University Sports Club Prague[1] |
| Coached by | František Ptáčník |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personalbest | 400 m: 50.92 (Budapest 2023) |
Medal record | |
Lada Vondrová (born 6 September 1999)[2] is a Czechtrack and field athlete who specializes insprint races. She won several Czech national titles.
Vondrová competed in thewomen's 400 metres at the2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships where she finished 13th in the semifinal.[3]
At the2019 World Athletics Championships held inDoha, Qatar, Vondrová finished the semifinals of the400 m event in 20th place.
She competed at the2020 Tokyo Olympics in the400 metres, where she got apersonal best of 51.14 seconds.[4]
At the2023 European Athletics Team Championships, Vondrová competed in the200 metres, where she finished 11th overall with a time of 23.44 seconds. Later the same day, she would anchor the Czechmixed 4 x 400m relay team to a victory in a new national record of time of 3:12.34, an improvement of 2.5 seconds over the previous national record.
Later the same year, she would compete at the2023 World Athletics Championships, in themixed 4 x 400m relay as well as the individual400 metres. The team consisting ofMatěj Krsek,Tereza Petržilková,Patrik Šorm and Lada Vondrová finished 3rd in the second heat and would go on to take the bronze medal in the final, with a further improved national record time of 3:11.98. In theindividual 400m, Vondrová would improve her personal best to 50.92 seconds in the heats. She would finish 19th in the semifinals, not progressing to the final.