Martina Sáblíková

Martina Sáblíková  (born 27 May 1987 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.

In 2007, she won her first major tournament, the 2007 European Speed Skating Championships in Collalbo, with an outdoor world record samalog score 162.954 points. She won both the 3,000-metre and the 5,000-metre in an outdoor world record time. She did not perform so well at the World alround championships in Heerenveen, where she finished fifth, but she managed to win the 2006–07 Speed Skating World Cup on the 3,000-metre and 5,000-metre track. At the end of the season she won two gold medals at the 2007 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City on 3,000-metre and 5,000-metre tracks. She also beat here the 5,000-metre track world record and set it for 6:45.61, 1.3 seconds faster than the previous record of Claudia Pechstein.

Other websites
 at SpeedSkatingResults.com
 Martina Sáblíková - official website 
 Photos of Martina Sablikova 

Category:Czech sportspeople
Category:1987 births
Category:Living people