Miroslava "Mirka" Topinková Knapková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪroslava ˈknapkovaː], born 19 September 1980) is a Czech rower who won an Olympic gold medal in the single scull.
Knapková was born in 1980 in Brno in Czechoslovakia (since 1993 in the Czech Republic).
[1] Between 2008 and 2015, she won the European Rowing Championships five times in this boat class.
[2] In 2015, Knapková won her fifth Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the V.K.
Having previously won the event in 2010, 2011 2013 and 2014, the fifth success equalled the record number of wins, set by Maria Brandin in 1998.