Bohumila Řimnáčová

Bohumila Řimnáčová
Medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico City Team
World Championships
1966 Dortmund Team
1970 Ljubljana Team

Bohumila Řimnáčová (later Řešátková; 9 September 1947 – 9 September 2025) was a Czech gymnast.

Biography

Řimnáčová's most remarkable achievements came in 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (second best after Věra Čáslavská in the golden women´s team) and in the 1968 Summer Olympics (silver team).[1]

After 1972 Olympics, she married, studied for a degree in organic chemistry, but retrained to be a gymnastics coach. Later she also contributed to the development of Aerobic gymnastics in the Czech Republic.[2]

Řimnáčová died on 9 September 2025, her 78th birthday.[3]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bohumila Řimnáčová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Bohumila Řešátková (1947)". Memory of Nations (in Czech). Post Bellum. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Zemřela Bohumila Řešátková, s Čáslavskou vybojovala olympijskou medaili". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Mafra. Czech News Agency. 10 September 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.