Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia)

Sportsperson of the Year (Czech: Sportovec roku, Slovak: Športovec roka) was a prize awarded annually to the best athletes of Czechoslovakia from 1959 to 1992 by the Club of Czechoslovak Sports Journalists.

[2] The individual prize was usually awarded to a single sportsperson, but on two occasions, two people received it – Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman (ice dancers) in 1962, and the Pospíšil brothers (cycle-ball players) in 1979.

The prize was given to 28 different athletes, 22 men and 6 women, in 23 sports disciplines.

Gymnast Věra Čáslavská won the prize four times, the most of any sportsperson.She was also the sole recipient to have received it in three consecutive years (from 1966 to 1968).

Ice hockey goaltender Josef Mikoláš and cross-country skier Květa Jeriová were the only people who won both the individual and the team prize[3] (Mikoláš as a member of the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team at 1961 World Championships[4] and Jeriová as a member of ski relay at the 1984 Winter Olympics[5]).

Three young women standing on a sportspodium with medals around their necks. The winner, standing in the middle on the top, is wearing a gymnastics dress with a little lion on her left arm. The silver and bronze medalists, standing on the sides, are wearing casual sports clothes with a sign "DDR". The winner and the silver medalist are smiling happily, the bronze medalist looks serious.
Věra Čáslavská , an artistic gymnast, stands on the top of the podium at the 1967 European Championships.