Milena Duchková

Milena Duchková (born April 25, 1952 in Prague) is a diver from the Czechoslovakia and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a gold medal in Platform Diving.[1] She received a silver medal in 1972.

Milena Duchková

Milena Duchková
Medal record
Women's Diving
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico City Platform
1972 Munich Platform
World Aquatics Championships
1973 Belgrade Platform

Personal

In late 1980, Duchková applied for permanent Canadian residency, along with her husband Petr Neveklovsky, then 33 years old and 22-month-old daughter Misa. Although her husband could only speak very little English, he was a highly regarded volleyball coach. Outside of diving, Duchková was also registered as a doctor, dentist and an oral surgeon, with hopes to open her own practice in Newfoundland following acceptance acceptance of their residency application. The family were concerned about raising their daughter in Czechoslovakia, according to her diving coach Don Webb, who had arranged for her one-year visa in Canada.[2]

Awards

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1983.

See also

References
  1. "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Diving" Archived 2008-09-29 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 13, 2008)
  2. "Medal-winning Czech diver seeks to remain in Canada". Lethbridge Herald. October 21, 1980. p. 23 – via Newspaperarchive.com.


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