Margaréta Schieferová

Margaréta Schieferová

Personal information
Full name	Margaréta Schieferová
Nationality	Slovak
Born	(1914-03-29.)29 March 1914 Trstín, Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia
Died	September 2006 (aged 92) Wien, Austria
Alma mater	Comenius University
Sport
Country	Czechoslovakia
Sport	Athletics
Event	Discus throw
Club	VŠ Bratislava
Achievements and titles
Personal best	DT – 35.68 m (1936)
Medal record Representing Slovak krajina Czechoslovak Athletics Championships 1936 Prague Discus Throw
Updated on 27 July 2022.

Margaréta Schieferová (born March 29, 1914 in Trstín, district Trnava, Austria-Hungary (today Slovakia), died September 2006 in Wien) was a Slovak athlete who competed for Czechoslovakia in the discus throw in the 1936 Olympic Games, finishing in 12th place. She was the first female athlete from Slovakia to participate in the Olympic Games.

Biography

She was born in the village of Trstín, and since 1933 she has been studying law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University. During her studies, she joined the athletics department of VŠ Bratislava. The talented and well-physically built athlete went from jumping to discus throwing, where she developed into the best Czechoslovak discus thrower in the second half of the 1930s, as she became a Czechoslovak champion in 1936.

After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the athlete, who achieved the title of Doctor of Laws, devoted herself to athletics only non-competitively, until the 1943–44 season, because she married in Vienna, and lived there under the surnames Imhof and Dusby. She died in September 2006.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Czechoslovakia
1936	Olympic Games	Berlin, Germany	12th	Discus	34.03 m

National titles

Czechoslovak Athletics Championships

• 1936 Prague: (Discus throw, 35.68 m PB)

Personal bests

Outdoor

• Discus throw - 35.68 m NR, 1936
• Shot put - 11.10 m
• 60m - 8.2s
• Long jump - 4.92 m