Linda Suchá
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| Born | 28 September 2001 Plzeň, Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Triple jump: 14.03m (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Linda Suchá (born 28 September 2001) is a Czech triple jumper and long jumper. She won the triple jump at the Czech Athletics Championships in 2025 and the silver medal in the triple jump at the 2025 Summer World University Games.[1]
Life
Linda Suchá was born on 28 September 2001 in Plzeň.[2] She studied teaching at the University of West Bohemia.[3]
Career
She is a member of Škoda Plzeň athletics club in Plzeň.[3] She won both the triple jump and long jump at the Czech Junior Championships in September 2020 in Vítkovice.[4] She qualified for the final and placed seventh overall in the triple jump at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland.[5]
In January 2025, she won the women's triple jump at the Otrokovice Jump 2025, part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger, clinching victory with a jump of 13.71m, an indoor best.[6] In March 2025, she competed in the triple jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, her senior major championship debut.[7][8] She competed in the Czech team at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid, Spain, placing sixth overall in the triple jump.[9]
She won the silver medal in the triple jump at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany, in July 2025 finishing behind Sharifa Davronova.[10][11] She set a new personal best of 14.03 metres the following month as she won the Czech Athletics Championships.[12] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, jumping 13.72 metres without advancing to the final.[13][14]
Suchá won both the long jump and the triple jump at the 2026 Czech Indoor Athletics Championships in Ostrava.[15][16]
References
- ^ "Linda Suchá". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Linda Suchá" (in Czech). Czech Olympic Committee. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
- ^ a b "Linda Suchá, a teaching student, claimed the silver medal at the World University Games". University of West Bohemia. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 14 October 2025.
- ^ "Plejáda rekordů v Ostravě". Atletika.cz (in Czech). 5 September 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Suchá veze z Espoo sedmé místo". Atletika.cz (in Czech). 14 July 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Czech teenage prospect Meindlschmid shines in Otrokovice". European Athletics. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 6 March 2025. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
- ^ "Na HME odcestuje 26 českých atletů". Atletika.cz (in Czech). 26 February 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Team Championships First Division". World Athletics. 28 June 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 27 July 2025. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
- ^ Soukup, Zdeněk (21 August 2025). "Atletka Suchá má první světovou medaili a teď sní o účasti na šampionátu v Tokiu". Deník.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Czech Championships". World Athletics. 23 August 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
- ^ "Běžec Dudycha neprošel na MS do semifinále. Jak úplný blb, zlobil se na sebe". Deník.cz (in Czech). 16 September 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ "Czech Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
- ^ "Czech Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 4 March 2026.