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Růžena Košťálová

Czechoslovak sprint canoeist (born 1924)

Růžena Košťálová (February 21, 1924 – January 2013) was a Czechoslovak sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s. She won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in London.

Košťálová moved to Switzerland in 1968, where she died in January 2013, at the age of 88.

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    • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: fla*er (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
    • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of fla*er (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
    • Růžena Košťálová's profile at Sports Reference.com