Jarmila Kratochvílová = world champion - celebrates 70th birthday today

From Wikipedia:

Jarmila Kratochvílová [ˈjarmɪla ˈkratoxviːlovaː]  born 26 January 1951, in Golčův Jeníkov) is a Czech former track and field athlete. In 1983, Kratochvílová broke the 800 m world record with a time of 1:53.28. At the World Championships shortly afterwards, she set a world record of 47.99 seconds to win the 400 m.

This record is the longest-standing world record in official disciplines in the history of women's athletics. Kratochvílová also holds the second-best time in history in running the 400 meters with a time of 47.99 s .

Kratochvílová was a late developer, not breaking 53 seconds for the 400 metres until she was 27, and she was 32 when she set her world records !
Here is the list of some medals she won:

Miroslav Kváč has been training Kratochvilova for 20 years. When at first he watched her run, he realized: this is a rolling tank! The tank was a girl from the farm, who at home folded 100kgs of potatoes, mowed a meadow, folded a ladder of hay. A resilient being, unyielding in pain.
Kváč came up with an ingeniously simple thing: "the athlete must develop the ability to move, for which he has the greatest disposition. With Jarmila, it was power."

He built everything on the development of strength. Before the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Kratochvilova pumped 750 tons per year. For one training, she also lifted 16 tons. Ten times in a row she jumped with a barbell of 110 kilograms on her back. In the morning, she managed to run 18times  300 meters on the track.

She still works and trains young athletes. For people in Czechia and I think not only for us she is a living legend.

Inspiration to practise running in corona-times ?

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