Jana Dukátová

Jana Dukátová (born 13 June 1983) is a former Slovak slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2021.

[2] Dukátová's first major international competition were the 1999 European Junior Championships, where she finished 28th in the K1 event.

She earned her first World Cup podium in Athens in 2005, where she finished second and she backed it up with another silver in Augsburg that year.

The following year was a disappointment for Jana as she lost the internal qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics to the defending champion Elena Kaliská.

Despite her success in the canoe, she would drop the discipline from her program after the 2010 season to fully focus on her goal to qualify for her first Olympics.

Eventually she did qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, beating the two-time champion Kaliská.

She earned one World Cup win in 2014 and one in 2015, finishing 2nd in the overall stadings on both occasions to her great rival Corinna Kuhnle.

In 2015 they both amassed the same number of points, but Kuhnle won the tie-break, which was the better result in the World Cup final.

She missed the entire 2018 season due to motherhood and came back in 2019, but was unable to recapture her best form.

[3] 2021 was her final season and she managed to claim one last medal, a bronze in the K1 team event at the 2021 World Championships on her home course in Bratislava.

Jana Dukátová at the 2012 Olympic Games.
Jana Dukátová at the 2019 Canoe Slalom World Championships.