Martina Sáblíková
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Martina Sáblíková ['marcɪna 'saːbliːkovaː] (born 27 May 1987 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.
In 2007 she won her first major tournament, the 2007 European Speed Skating Championships in Collalbo, with an outdoor world record samalog score 162.954 points. She won both the 3,000 m and the 5,000 m in an outdoor world record time. She did not perform so well at the World alround championships in Heerenveen, where she finished fifth, but she managed to win the 2006–07 Speed Skating World Cup on the 3,000 and 5,000 m track. At the end of the season she won two gold medals at the 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City on 3,000 m and 5,000 m tracks. She also beat here the 5,000 m track world record and set it for 6:45.61, 1.3 seconds faster than the previous record of Claudia Pechstein.
Martina Sáblíková Media
Sáblíková (left) with Ester Ledecká at Old Town Square in Prague after their return from Olympic Games in South Korea
Martina Sáblíková at the 2007 World Championships in Heerenveen.
Other websites
- at SpeedSkatingResults.com
- Martina Sáblíková - official website Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Photos of Martina Sablikova Archived 2007-08-03 at Archive.today