Barbora Horáčková (15 January 1969, in

Ostrava Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...

– 8 April 2018) was an athlete from the

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who competed in

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. At the

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Horáčková finished her ranking round with a total of 620 points. This gave her the 44th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Viktoriya Koval in the first round. The archer from

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eliminated her straight away with a 109-107 score.Athlete biography: Barbora Horackova
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 23 2008 Her daughter

Marie Horáčková Marie Horáčková (; born 24 December 1997) is a Czech archer. She competed in the women's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career On 6 August 2023, Horáčková became the first Czech Republic athlete to win a recurve bow Indi ...

is another Czech Olympic archer.

References

1969 births 2018 deaths Olympic archers for the Czech Republic Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Czech female archers Athletes from Ostrava {{CzechRepublic-archery-bio-stub