Biographical study of sports career of the olympian Dana Zátopková

Title of diploma work: Biographical study of sports career of the Olympian Dana Zátopková Student: Alena Chocholová Supervisor: PhDr.Aleš Kaplan, Ph.D Aim: To evaluate, describe and monitor sports career of Dana Zátopková within a biographical study. Methods: The work was divided into four main parts. The ftrst part contains detailed and complete summary of all articles written about Dana Zátopková during her sixteen-year career. Because of seriousness, I chose daily newspaper Mladá fronta which started to be published in 1945 and was published without interruption until 1961. I statistically processed an amount of articles in a year, categorized articles according to pre-determined criteria and found out frequency of authors writing about Zátopková during her sixteen- year career. I used methods of processing of historically obtained documents from Jan Volf's diploma work (2007) and as well sociological methods by Sekot (2006). The second part of work contains processed information obtained by Dana Zátopková during a directed interview. The fourth part is a total summary of Dana Zátopková's greatest successes and sport performances. Results: In the presented diploma work I managed to evaluate, describe and monitor Dana Zátopková's sport career based on a study of available materials. Using content..