Iveta Vacenovská is a Czech Table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 player. She resides in Linz

Linz

Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and plays for Linz AG Froschberg.

Based on her world ranking in May 2011, she qualified directly for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Life

Vacenovská began playing table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 when she was six years old, because of her uncle, who is a table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 coach

Coach

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. Besides being a professional athlete, she is also a student at the Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...

 in the Department of Sport and Physical Education, and enjoys all kinds of sporting activities.

Career records

• 2003 European Youth Champion Singles
• 2006 U21 Winner ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals
• 2009 3rd place Team European Championships
• 2009 Champions League Winner with Linz AG Froschberg
• 2005, 2007, 2011 Winner Stadtmeisterschaften Singles