Hana Machatová-Bogušovská

Hana Machatová-Bogušovská (born 31 July 1938) is a retired Czech rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1965 World individual all-around silver medalist and three times Czech champion (1963, 1965, 1966). Her twin, Jiřina Machatová, is also a very successful gymnast and ballet dancer. Now she is a coach of young rhythmic gymnasts in Czech Republic. In April 2019 a book was released about Machatová-Bogušovská and her sister Jiřina.^{[citation needed]}

Hana Bogušovská
Full name	Hana Machatová-Bogušovská
Country represented	Czechoslovakia
Born	(1938-07-31) 31 July 1938 (age 86) Brno, Czechoslovakia
Hometown	Brno
Residence	Brno
Discipline	Rhythmic gymnastics
Head coach(es)	Květa Černá
Medal record Representing  Czechoslovakia World Championships 1965 Prague Freehands 1965 Prague All-around

Biography

Machatová was born in Brno and competed in three World Championships. She made her first appearance at the 1963 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary finishing 4th in all-around. At the 1965 World Championships, with 12 countries competing, she competed in front of a home country crowd in Prague where she won bronze in All-around and silver in Freehands. She competed in her last Worlds at the 1967 World Championships finishing 6th in all-around.

After her retirement, Machatová-Bogušovská was a soloist ballerina from years 1957-1982 of the ballet company of the State Theatre in Brno, she was also an external teacher and lecturer at Masaryk University and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts. In 2012, she was the Chair of the South Moravian region in rhythmic gymnastics. In 1976, she married Vlastimil Bubník ^[1]

References

1. Bogušovská Profile

External links

• Bogušovská Sports Bio
• Rhythmic Gymnastics Results