Women
CZE
Karolina Erbanova
CZE- Date of birth27 Oct 1992
- Height176 CM
- ProfessionAthlete
- HometownHeerenveen
- Place of birthVrchlabí
- Start skating Club She took up the sport at age 14 in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. Team AfterPay: Netherlands
- HobbiesListening to music, wood carving, reading, sudoku. (NOC Media Guide, 2018)
- LanguagesCzech, Dutch, English
- CoachN/A
- ChoreographerN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- Practice low seasonN/A
- Practice high seasonN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
She was named the 2011 and 2012 Junior Athlete of the Year by Czech sports journalists. (idnes.cz, 19 Dec 2012; ceskatelevize.cz, 21 Dec 2011)
Don't allow the fear of losing to eliminate you from the game. (NOC Media Guide, 2018)
Czech ice hockey player Jaromir Jagr, Canadian speed skater Christine Nesbitt. (NOC Media Guide, 2014; Athlete, 12 Mar 2012)
Czech speed skater Martina Sablikova. (Athlete, 14 Dec 2012)
She has broken her clavicle on three occasions during her career. (Athlete, 26 Jan 2017)
Winning gold in the sprint combination at the 2017 European Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, and competing at the Olympic Winter Games in 2010 and 2014. (Athlete, 26 Jan 2017)
MOVING TO THE NETHERLANDS
In 2014 she moved to the Netherlands to train and compete. "Teams there specialise in sprint training and I see my future in sprints, while in the Czech Republic skaters are more focused on longer distances." (tyden.cz, 09 Jan 2017; idnes.cz, 09 Jan 2017, 06 Oct 2016)
In 2014 she moved to the Netherlands to train and compete. "Teams there specialise in sprint training and I see my future in sprints, while in the Czech Republic skaters are more focused on longer distances." (tyden.cz, 09 Jan 2017; idnes.cz, 09 Jan 2017, 06 Oct 2016)
She competed in road cycling at the 2010 and 2011 national championships in the Czech Republic. (SportsDeskOnline, 26 Jan 2014)
When I first saw speed skating on television at the age of 14 in 2006, I was laughing about the suits. What a crazy sport. I was playing ice hockey at the time. Then my gym teacher took me to a training camp with Martina [Sablikova], because there were two Czech girls in speed skating and they needed a third for the team pursuit. I did not want to do speed skating in the beginning, because I had my future planned in ice hockey, but speed skating went well and at the age of 16 I went to World Cups with Martina.
