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The history of pains and success

The beginning and the first success               72-77

The gymnastics group in Detva was officially founded in 1973 but Detva girls performed this sport few years before as vocational leisure activity. Under Darina Krkosova´s, Anna Lakotova´s, Eva Scirankova´s and Ing. Viera Zifcakova´s leadership trainees started to perfom difficult excersises. The first gymnastics championship took place in II.primary school gym on 9th March 1972.

Detva girls made themself known I gymnastic circles by the participation Regional Championship and Slovak Championship.And thanks to trainer Zifcak a new gymnastics group came to begin.MuDr.Drahomir Marecek became its first  chairman and Ing. Ján Becherbecame the secretary. Three trainers: Viera Zlatonová and married couple Zifcakworked there with 11 trainees.

Just since its beginning  gymnastics group PPS Detva became interesting for sport experts in Czechoslovakia . Gymnasts Eva Mareckova, Edita Drdosova and Viera Melichová under the leadership of the couple Zifcák in the group´sfirst year of existence made their way to Czechoslovak Championship. A year leter Detva was talked about like the nest of talents. E. Drdosová and E. Marecková were nominated into CSSR junior team. In 1975 five Detva gymnasts took part in  UherskeHradiste. E . Marecková gained the title junior champion of CSSR. Girls of Detvabrought home 10 out of 15 gold medals.

Success continue         77-78

Every next year Detva gymnasts kept their prominent rank in Slovak gymnastics. In 1977 that time 3 years old Eva Marecková won the title Champion  ofChampion of CSSR in women´s category by which she became the youngest women championin CSSR gymnastics history.

In 1978 represented CSSR on Europe Youth Championship only gymnasts from Detva- Eva Marecková, Jana Labaková and Martina Malusová. Two years later were these girls members of Czechoslovak Olympic team. The Olympic Games in Moskvain 1980 where they gained fourth place. In the competition of  individuals E. Marecková won 12th and J . Labáková11th place in the floor exercise. Detva girls shocked proffesional public by their almost unbelievable results. As the first in the republic they started to perform ´cukahara´somersault on balance beam, quadruple screws, double somersault. Mareckováas the first performed the loop. These were the reasons why a new centre of top performacce youth sport was founded in 1976. A year later a new special gym  tohelp improving of training process was commenced. And girls had success again. In CSSR Championship in 1981 E. Marecková and J. Labaková won for Detva all five Champion titles. Eva gained 4 gold and 1 bronz and Jana  won 1 gold and 4 bronzmedals.

The next generation    80ties

The beganning of  80ties ment also beginning of  the next gymnastics generation. Except experienced representatives E. Mareckova and J . Labáková- bronzmedal in parallel bars European Championship 1983 GOTEBORG and J. Gajdosova  and new Detva gymnasts- Libusa Slezaková, Gabriela Skalová , Diana Sablaturova succeeded. They won titles and medals from the top tournaments home and abroad- CSSR Championship, Europe Junior Championship, the Championship of Olympic hopes- Druzba. They fought and won also top international European and Chinese championships.

The member of Detva active trainees was forty. There were The Centre of top performance sport- trainer Zifcáková, Training Youth Centre- trainer Ing. Viera Zlatonová later Mgr.Ján Zifcák, The School Sport Centre- trainer Hana Zifcáková. The group was governed by 7 member team. Since 1983 was the secretary for the years 1976-1993.

The gymnastics groups had their representatives in all Slovak representative teams beginning with women and ending with schoolgirls. The number of representative participations of Detva gymnasts at international tournaments was over 150. The competitioners and trainers took part in top gymnastics competitions- Olympic Games, World and European Championship, World Univerziad and Druzba Competitions. On their representative starts they visited 23 countries of three continents.

In 1985 Czechoslovak Junior Championship took place in Detva. . Katka Cmarková fought out silver medal in the vault and in the floor exercise and Diana Sablatúrováin balance beam. And the next generation so far juniors: Katka Cmarková, Adriana Slezáková, sisters Zuzka and Katka Krekánová, Jana Kroupová and others, later M. Krnácová and Stanislava Harmadiová owned tens of medals from Slovak an Czechoslovak Championship and International Cup Tournament.Mária Krnácová was member of Czechoslovak team at World Championship  in Switzerland in 1987. Malignant illness and death of Vierka Zifcáková and subsequently death of her husband Ján Zifcák tragically touched  the training process. Despite  the ettempts of the others trainers including mature children of Zifcák- Ján and Hana the premature death of Detva gymnastics founders reflected  in stagnation and depression. Also the changes in region´s economic situation enforced by the change of political regime in 1989 was not profitable for Detva´s gymnastics. The state donations rapidly fell and so far the main sponsor PPS Detva completely stopped financing the club because of their own bad economic situacion. A lot of changes of this period was engagement of trainers pair from Ukraine - Nadyia and Mykola Havryshchuk and the fact that the club continued in spite of big finance problems  with help of  the chairman  Ján Mravec. Another change in the leading team at the end of 1996 ( PhDr. K. Pazmányová, PhDr. J. Kucbelová,V. Zlatonová A. Luptáková,P. Krnác, J.Homola, J.Lievaj, Z. Kocvarová) and soon after change also in conception of work finally made the club economic situation better.

Today the number of club´s members is close to 100. They daily visit the gym in Detva, The School Sport Gymnastic Centre was founded and since september works The Center of Talented Youth. Except the trainers Nadyia and Mykola Havryshchuk, Viera Zlatonová and also former gymnasts Gabika Fasangová-Skalová a Michaela Chebenová help to educate new gymnastics youth.

They need not wait long for sport success. Martina Mravcová won the title Champion of Slovak Republic in 1994,1997 and 1998(junior). As member of Slovak representative team she participated in semifinal on Europe Championship in Hungary in 1995, The olympic days in Spain and European Championship in Sanct Peterburg in 1998.

Another 3 gymnasts Janka Luptaková,Mária Homolová and Petra Mudráková are members of Slovak representative team of schoolchildren. Janka Luptáková is Champion of Slovakia for the year 1996 and1997. She gained the first place inthe vault also from the Cup competition UMB Banská Bystrica in 1997 and 1998. Mária Homolová was Champion of Slovakia in1996 and she was second in 1997. In the years 1997 and 1998 she was first in her category on the Cup competition UMB BB and from Sumperk she brought first place in balance beam. One year younger Petra Mudraková has bronz medal from Slovak Championship in 1996 and 1997.

(History of years 1999 - 2002 continued in december 2003)

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Copyright: © 2003 Michal Ovčiarik, Klub športovej gymnastiky Detva. Prevádzkované vďaka podpore fy Disy Detva.   Zmena: november 12, 2003