Petra Sičaková
Czech javelin thrower (born 2003)
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Petra Sičaková (born 14 April 2003) is a Czech javelin thrower. A Czech national champion for the first time in 2022, she competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. She won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships.[1]
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| Born | 14 April 2003 (age 23) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Javelin: 60.91 m (Zagreb, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
A member of AK Škoda Plzeň, she placed fifth in the U23 category in the javelin throw at the 2022 European Throwing Cup in Portugal.[2]
She won the silver medal in the U23 tournament at the 2023 European Throwing Cup in Leiria.[3] She became senior Czech national champion by winning the Czech Athletics Championships in July 2023 with a throw of 58.60 metres.[4]
She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where she did not reach the final from the preliminary heat, throwing 52.86 metres.[5][6] She made her Olympic debut at the age of 21 years-old at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, but did not progress to the final finishing fourteenth in her qualifying group.[7] She threw a new personal best of 60.91 metres whilst competing in Zagreb in September 2024.[8]
In July 2025, she won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway with a throw of 58.14 metres.[9] She was runner-up to Andrea Železná at the Czech Athletics Championships in August 2025.[10] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan without advancing to the final.[11][12]