Hana Machatová-Bogušovská

Hana Machatová-Bogušovská (born 31 July 1938) is a retired Czech rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1965 World individual all-around silver medalist and three times Czech champion (1963, 1965, 1966). Her twin, Jiřina Machatová, is also very successful gymnast and ballet dancer. Now she is a coach of young rhythmic gymnasts in Czech republic. In April 2019 was released a book about the famous twins Machatovy.

Hana Bogušovská
Full nameHana Machatová-Bogušovská
Country represented Czechoslovakia
Born (1938-07-31) 31 July 1938
Brno, Czechoslovakia
HometownBrno
ResidenceBrno
DisciplineRhythmic gymnastics
Head coach(es)Květa Černá

Biography

Machatová was born in Brno and competed in three World Championships. She made her first appearance at the 1963 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary finishing 4th in all-around. At the 1965 World Championships, with 12 countries competing, she competed in front of a home country crowd in Prague where she won bronze in All-around and silver in Freehands. She competed in her last Worlds at the 1967 World Championships finishing 6th in all-around.

After her retirement, Machatová-Bogušovská was a soloist ballerina from years 1957-1982 of the ballet company of the State Theatre in Brno, she was also an external teacher/lecturer at Masaryk University and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts. In 2012, she was the Chair of the South Moravian region in rhythmic gymnastics. In 1976, she married Vlastimil Bubník [1]

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