Tags: Gymnast.
Vlasta Děkanová (September 5 1909 – October 16 1974) was a Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast two-time World All-Around Gymnastics Champion who also competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.At the 1936 Berlin Olympics she helped her Czechoslovakian team to the silver this being her only Olympic medal due to the world wars and the lack of recognition of women for individual medals at the Olympic games until the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.She also was two-time World All-Around Champion at successive World Gymnastics Championships (1934 and 1938) as well as Balance Beam Champion at the latter (some sources conflict as to what other events she won – vault and/or uneven/parallel bars) where women’s individual event medals were first awarded.