Ludmila Sychrová with marriage name Hrazdírová (7 January 1904 - 15[1] or 19[2] March 1996) was a Czechoslovak track and field athlete during the 1920s, the early era of women's athletics. She was world record holder in the 80 metres hurdles and won a gold and bronze medal at the second Women's World Games in 1926.
Biography
Sychrová was born in 1904 in Bořitov and was a member of AC Moravská Slavia Brno.[2]
On 6 July 1926 she set her first (unofficial) world record in the 80 metres hurdles in Prague. On 1 July 1928 she improved twice her world recordin Prague first to 12.6 seconds and later to 12.2 seconds, that also became the world record.[3][2]
In 1926, she represented Czechoslovakia at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg. She won the gold medal in the 100 yards hurdles event ahead of British Edith White and Hilda Hatt.[4][5][6] She won the bronze medal in the 4 × 110 yards relay together with Zdena Smolová, Štepánka Kucerová and Marie Vidláková.[7][8]
She had also other international successes, including winning the 100 yards hurdles at the 1926 Stockholm international women's athletics meeting ahead of the French Geneviève Laloz.[9]
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