Kateřina Baďurová

Kateřina Baďurová, married Kateřina Janků, is a Czech former pole vaulter.
She finished twelfth at the Athletics at the [2004 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault|2004 Olympic Games]. She also competed at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 without reaching the finals.
Her best success came at the 2007 [World Championships in Athletics] in Osaka, Japan, where she took silver for 4.75 m vault, setting new Czech national record. She took early retirement from the sport due to a serious rupture of the ligament in her left knee. After retirement, she planned to continue in the field of child physiotherapy.
Since 2010 she works as an athletic head coach.

Personal life

In 2010, Baďurová married Czech high jumper, Tomáš Janků. In 2007, Janků presented Baďurová with 465 roses at a press conference after she set a new national record in the pole vault of 465cm. The pair have two daughters Ellen and Nikolet.
She won StarDance (Czech [TV series)|StarDance], the Czech version of Dancing with the Stars, in 2012.