Iveta Vacenovská | |
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Full name | Iveta Vacenovská |
Nationality | Czech Republic |
Residence | Linz, Austria |
Born |
Hodonín, Czechoslovakia |
March 22, 1986
Playing style | Shakehand |
Equipment(s) | Butterfly |
Highest ranking | 29 (December 2012) |
Club | Linz AG Froschberg |
Iveta Vacenovská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɪvɛta ˈvatsɛnofskaː]; born March 22, 1986) is a Czech Table tennis player. She resides in Linz, Austria and plays for Linz AG Froschberg.
Based on her world ranking in May 2011, she qualified directly for the London 2012 Olympic Games, where she reached the third round before losing to Wu Jiaduo of Germany.
Vacenovská began playing table tennis when she was six years old, because of her uncle, who is a table tennis coach. Besides being a professional athlete, she is also a student at the Charles University in Prague in the Department of Sport and Physical Education, and enjoys all kinds of sporting activities.