24. November 2015  
Prague, CZE  
Artistic Gymnastics

Former FIG TC President Jaroslava Matlochova died at the age of 85

Jaroslava Matlochová (roz. Rybnikářová), one of the most successfully Czech coach and trainer of the Czech gymnastics legend Vera Caslavska, died last week, on Nov 13, in Prague at the age of 85 years.
Jaroslava was born in 1930. In 1949 she graduated from High school. The awareness of citizens of the former Czechoslovakia signed on as coach of the legendary national team in gymnastics, eight times Olympic champion Vera Čáslavská. For many years after the end of a successful coaching career she worked as President of the women's technical committee of the International Gymnastics Federation.
She was married with her husband, the Czech coach Vit Matlocha who died last year, 2014, April 12...
 

Czechoslovakian Team at the 1962 Worlds in Prague:
- from left
: Coach J. Matlochová, coach , H. Ružičková, Cmíralová, E. Bosáková, V. Čáslavská, Šínová, A. Tkačíková. (c) Archive A. Gajdos