Biathlonist Gabriela Soukalova: photo, achievements

Twice the silver medalist of the Sochi Olympics in 2014, the owner of the gold medal in the mixed relay race of 2015 and the Small Crystal Globe 2013-2014 for individual races, the world biathlon champion in the summer (2014) in the mixed relay race. Young, slim and most beautiful sportswoman of the Czech Republic. All these titles have Sukalova Gabriela - a legendary and wonderful biathlete.

Gabriela Sukalova: photo, brief biography

In 1989, Gabriela Sukalova was born on 1 November in the town of Jablonec nad Nisou. Her mother acted in her time for the Czechoslovak national team in skiing and became in 1984 a prize-winner of the Olympics in the relay race. However, Gabriela did not follow in her footsteps and decided to engage in biathlon with 16 years, and her mother as her personal trainer began to assist her in training.

For the first time Gabriela tried her hand at biathlon in 2005. For a short period of time (of the order of several years), it achieved fairly good results at the level of its country. The coaches of the Czech national team began to train it in the national team of the country.

Successes in sports

Not too successful first junior competitions did not deprive the faith of her coaches, due to which the athlete began to progress quickly. Already in the season 2009-2010. Gabriela Sukalova participated in the IBU Cup and almost a year later became the best biathlonist in the sprint standings. After that, she entered the main national team of the country and began to travel to all stages of the World Cup.

Her performance was also successful in the 2011-2012 season, where she became a silver medalist in the sprint team. The next year was more successful in terms of achievements. The year of 2013 was marked by a victory in the sprint race in Pokljuk (Slovenia).

In the same year, the bronze medal of the world championship was also won in the mixed relay race. The final stage of the World Cup, held in Russia (Khanty-Mansiysk), for Gabriela was marked by the conquest of the first places in all three individual races: mass start, sprint and pursuit race.

Achievements of recent years

In the last season, Gabriela Soukalova pleased fans of this wonderful sport with her remarkable successes. In individual races at the World Cup (stage 5 - January 14, 2016) Gabriela, even with unclosed targets, climbed to the podium.

The beautiful sportswoman continues to demonstrate stability, without dropping below 9 lines in the standings. After the individual race at this stage of the World Cup (Ruhpolding), she is the leader in the overall standings. After 12.5-kilometer mass start in the same competition Gabriela Sukalova again became the leader in the classification of this species. As a result, her victory was the tenth in the World Cup for her entire career. Team silver in the relay (4x6 km) was won by it on January 24 in Anterselva.

A total of 36 awards have Gabriela (including 21 - individual), and, in addition, she leads by points in the individual competition.

Gabriela Sukalova: personal life

Little is known about the biathlete's personal life. She has a boyfriend named Peter Koukal, who is also a badminton athlete. Gabriela gives her free time to work on charity.

It is known that she shot a nude camera for one of the Czech editions of Today magazine together with Koukal for a project aimed at fighting the century's disease - cancer.

Also, Sukalova participated in a photo session in support of babies abandoned by parents and living in orphanages in anticipation of new parents. The funds raised from the action are sent to the Children's Center, located in the Tomaira Hospital in Prague.

Given the undeniable experience and great abilities of Gabriela, we can safely assume that in the future she will achieve great success in this wonderful sport and delight her numerous fans.