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Miriam Bobková
Personal information
Full name	Miriam Bobková-Cupáková
Nationality	Slovakia
Born	2 March 1979 (age 45); Spišská Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	100 metres hurdles
Club	AK Spartak Dubnica
Coached by	Eugen Laczo
Achievements and titles
Personal best	100 m hurdles: 13.04 s (2007)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Slovakia
European Youth Summer Olympic Festival

Miriam Bobková-Cupáková (born March 2, 1979, in Spišská Nová Ves) is a retired Slovak sprint hurdler.^[1] At the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, Bobková set both a national record and a personal best time of 13.04 seconds, by finishing seventh in the preliminary heats of the women's 100 hurdles.^[2]

Career

Bobkova represented Slovakia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 100 m hurdles. She ran in the first heat against seven other competitors, including Turkey's Nevin Yanıt and Poland's Aurelia Trywiańska-Kollasch. She finished the race in last place by twenty-six hundredths of a second (0.26) behind Belarus' Katsiaryna Paplauskaya, with a time of 13.65 seconds. Bobkova, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-seventh overall, and was ranked farther below two mandatory slots for the next round.^[3]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Miriam Bobková". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
^ "Event report: Women's 100m Hurdles – 1st Round". 2007 Osaka. IAAF. 27 August 2007. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
^ "Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 – Heat 1". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.