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Miriam Bobková | |
Fullname: | Miriam Bobková-Cupáková |
Birth Date: | 2 March 1979 |
Birth Place: | Spišská Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia |
Weight: | 580NaN0 |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 100 metres hurdles |
Club: | AK Spartak Dubnica |
Coach: | Eugen Laczo |
Pb: | 100 m hurdles: 13.04 s (2007) |
Miriam Bobková-Cupáková (born March 2, 1979, in Spišská Nová Ves) is a retired Slovak sprint hurdler.[1] At the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, Bobková set both a national record and a personal best time of 13.04 seconds, by finishing seventh in the preliminary heats of the women's 100 hurdles.[2]
Bobkova represented Slovakia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 100 m hurdles. She ran in the first heat against seven other competitors, including Turkey's Nevin Yanıt and Poland's Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch. She finished the race in last place by twenty-six hundredths of a second (0.26) behind Belarus' Katsiaryna Paplauskaya, with a time of 13.65 seconds. Bobkova, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-seventh overall, and was ranked farther below two mandatory slots for the next round.[3]