Hana Říčná

Hana Říčná
Born	(1968-12-20) 20 December 1968 (age 56) Brno, Czechoslovakia
Residence	Coventry, Rhode Island
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Gym	Zbrojovka Brno
Head coach(es)	Radek and Drahomira Kriz
Eponymous skills	Ricna (uneven bars)
Medal record Representing  Czechoslovakia World Championships 1983 Budapest Balance beam 1985 Montreal Uneven bars European Championships 1985 Helsinki Balance beam Friendship Games 1984 Olomouc All-around 1984 Olomouc Balance beam 1984 Olomouc Team

Hana Říčná (born 20 December 1968 in Brno) is a former artistic gymnast who represented Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the team final and 29th in the all-around final.^[1] She won two medals at the World Championships, a silver on beam in 1983^[2] and a bronze on the uneven bars in 1985.^[3] Hana competed in the Olomouc Friendship Games, held as an alternative to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, which the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states boycotted, where she won a silver medal in the all around and on beam. She also won a silver medal on beam at the 1985 European Championships.^[4]

Říčná is one of a few female gymnasts to have competed the Comaneci salto on uneven bars.^[5]

Říčná moved to the United States in 1994 and is the head coach at Rise Gymnastics in Coventry, Rhode Island.^[6] Her son, David Jessen,^[7] is an elite gymnast who represented the Czech Republic at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[8]

Eponymous skill

Říčná has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.^[9]

Apparatus	Name	Description	Difficulty[a]
Uneven bars	Ricna	Stalder to counter reversed straddled hecht over high bar	E

1. Valid for the 2022–2024 Code of Points

References

1. "Hana Říčná". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
2. "1983 World Championships Women's EF". Gymn Forum. 2 February 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
3. "1985 World Championships Women's EF". Gymn Forum. 2 February 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
4. "1985 European Championships Women's EF". Gymn Forum. 21 November 1997. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
5. "Hana Ricna performs Comaneci salto (1985 Europe UB at 0:31)". YouTube. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
6. "Hana Ricna". Rise Gymnastics. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
7. "Hana Ricna (CSSR)". Gymn Forum. 25 August 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
8. "The Leading Source of Gymnastics News".
9. "2022–2024 Code of Points Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. p. 89, 207. Retrieved 22 January 2022.