Iveta Vacenovská | |
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![]() Vacenovská in 2016 | |
Personal information | |
Full name | Iveta Vacenovská |
Nationality | ![]() |
Residence | Linz, Austria |
Born | Hodonín, Czechoslovakia | 22 March 1986
Playing style | Shakehand |
Equipment(s) | Butterfly |
Highest ranking | 29 (December 2012) [1] |
Club | Linz AG Froschberg |
Iveta Vacenovská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɪvɛta ˈvatsɛnofskaː]; born 22 March 1986) is a Czech Table tennis player. She resides in Linz, Austria and plays for Linz AG Froschberg. [2]
Based on her world ranking in May 2011, she qualified directly for the London 2012 Olympic Games, where she reached the third round before losing to Wu Jiaduo of Germany. [3] [4]
Vacenovská began playing table tennis when she was six years old, because of her uncle, who is a table tennis coach. Besides being a professional athlete, she is also a student at the Charles University in Prague in the Department of Sport and Physical Education, and enjoys all kinds of sporting activities.
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