Hana RICNÁ

Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Date of birth

20 December 1968

Hometown

Florida, USA

Place of birth

Brno

Profession

coach

Height

 

cm

Children

1 son: David

Weight

 

kg

Start gymnastics

 

Gender

Female

Club

Zbrojorka Brno 

Nickname

 

Head coach

Radek & Drahomira KRIZ 

Spouse name

Lorin Jessen 

Favourite apparatus

 

 

World class in

1983

First competition

1981

Last competition

1988

 

Hana was born on December 20, 1968 in Brno.  She trained at Zbrojorka Brno with coaches Radek and Drahomira Kriz (Drahomira's maiden name was Smolikova, and she finished 9th AA at the 1975 European Championships).  Hana came to the USA in 1994 and coached for a while at a gym in Florida.  She is married to Lorin Jessen and they have a three-year-old son, David.  The couple currently coach at Patti Dunne's School of Gymnastics in Connecticut.

 

Medal Total

Year

Competition

Team

AA

Vault

Uneven Bars

Beam

Floor

1981

Intl. Jr Championships, Tokyo
Intl. Jr Championships, Sapporo
Jr Friendship Tournament (Druzhba) 

-
-
-

7
-
7

-
-
-

2
2
-

-
5
-

5
-
-

1982

Chunichi Cup 
3. Jr European Championships
Junior GDR-TCH Dual Meet 
Moscow News 
TCH-ITA Dual Meet 
Tokyo Cup 

-
-
-
-
1
-

3
9
1
4
1
-

-
-
-
7
-
-

4
8
-
-
-
5

2
-
-
-
-
-

4
5
-
5
-
-

1983

14. European Championships 
Riga International 
TCH Championships
22. World Championships 

-
-
-
6

13
7
1
14

-
-
-
-

8
1
-
8

-
-
-
2

6
-
-
-

1984

American Cup 
Chunichi Cup
CSSR Spartakiade (Olomouc) 
Kosice International 
Tokyo Cup 

-
-
-
-
-

8
5
2
2
-

-
-
-
2
-

-
1
8
2
1

1
1
2
2
5

-
-
4
-
-

1985

Champions All 
Chunichi Cup 
15. European Championships
French International 
Tokyo Cup 
23. World Championships

-
-
-
-
-
5

2
1
4
-
-
8

-
-
-
-
-
-

-
1
4
1
1
3

-
2
2
1
2
5

-
2
4
2
-
-

1986

Ahoy Cup 
Kosice International 
TCH-GDR "B"-HUN 
World Cup 

-
-
-
-

13
1
1
5

-
3
-
-

-
1
-
4

-
2
-
5

-
-
-
5

1988

24. Olympic Games 

7

29

-

-

-

-

 

World Championships 1983, Budapest, Hungary

Julianne MacNamara, Maxi Gnauck, Gabriele Fähnrich, Silvia Topalova, Lavinia Agache, Hana Ricna

 

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