| Nikoleta Jíchová | |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Birth Date: | 29 August 2000 |
| Pb: | 400 m hurdles 54.59 (Rome, 2024) |
Nikoleta Jíchová (born 29 August 2000) is a Czech track and field athlete. She is a multiple national champion over 400m hurdles, and a European U23 Championships gold medalist.[1]
Jíchova is coached by former Czech national champion hurdler Jindřich Šimánek.[2] She is a member of TJ Dukla Prague.[3] She raced over 100m hurdles before switching to the longer distance of 400m hurdles in 2020.[4]
In Zlín in June 2021, Jíchová won the senior 400m hurdles at the 2021 Czech Athletics Championships.[5] In 2021 she was part of the Czech team that won gold at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
The following year Jíchová retained the Czech national title over 400m hurdles, at the Czech Championships held in June 2022 in Hodonín.[6] Jíchová ran a time of 55.93 to qualify win her heat and to qualify for the semi-finals of the 400m at the 2022 European Championships held in Munich, Germany.[7] [8] In the semi-finals Jíchova set a new personal best time of 55.48s without progressing to the final.[9]
Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, she qualified for the semi-finals.[10]
On 10 June 2024, she ran a personal best 54.59 seconds to qualify for the final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. In the final, she finished fourth overall in a time of 54.91 seconds.[11] [12] She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[13]
Jíchová has done modelling work, and featured on magazine covers in her homeland. She attributed this to an increase in her social media followers.[14] In 2021 Jíchová announced she was in a relationship with fellow athlete Martin Růžička.[15]