Iveta Miculyčová
Czech cyclist (born 2005)
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| Full name | Iveta Miculyčová | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2005-09-15) 15 September 2005 (age 18) Kostelec nad Orlicí, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle BMX, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Iveta Miculyčová (born 15 September 2005) is a Czech BMX cyclist. In 2022 she became the European Champion in Freestyle Park and won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships.
Early life
Miculyčová is from Kostelec nad Orlicí in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. In 2018 a skatepark was built in her hometown and her parents bought her a BMX for Christmas.[1] She also played football and made it to the under-15 national team and received an offer to play from Sparta Prague but her mother preferred her to stay at home and finish her education.[2]
Career
Miculyčová became the first Czech rider to complete a back flip in competition. She won the 2022 European BMX Championships in Munich, Germany, in August 2022, triumphing over a field that included Olympic medalists Charlotte Worthington and Nikita Ducarroz. This win came about despite Miculyčová suffering a hematoma in her thigh which hampered her later runs in the competition.[3] She followed this up with bronze at the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships held in Abu Dhabi.[4]
Olympics 2024
Miculyčová qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics thanks to her 3rd place finish at the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships. She became the first Czech rider, both male or female, to qualify for BMX Freestyle Park event at the Olympics. She finished fifth in the qualification round at the Olympics and qualified for the final. In the first final run Miculyčová posted 82.30 points to place fifth. In the second run she had an early foot-down and eventually finished sixth.[5]
Competitive history
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 5th, 2024
Olympic Games
| Event | Freestyle Park |
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 2024 Paris | 6th |
UCI Cycling World Championships
| Event | Freestyle Park |
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 2022 Abu Dhabi | Bronze |
 2023 Glasgow | 9th |
UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Rank | Points |
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| 2022 | MON 12 | BRU — | GOL 15 | 17 | 660 | |
| 2023 | DIR — | MON — | BRU 13 | BAZ 5 | 25 | 350 |
References
- ^ "QUICK QUESTIONS WITH IVETA MICULYČOVÁ". thebloombmx. 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Iveta Miculyčová, European BMX champion: My parents didn't want me to do freestyle". welovecycling.com. 15 August 2022.
- ^ "European Freestyle BMX Champion Iveta Miculyčová: I do the backflip trick at least three times in every training session". sport.rozhlas.cz. 25 August 2022.
- ^ "Urban Cycling World Championships 2022: Hannah Roberts wins fourth BMX freestyle park title". Olympics.com.
- ^ "Olympic Games Paris 2024: China's Yawen Deng wins women's BMX Freestyle". UCI. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
External links
- Iveta Miculyčová at Olympics.com
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