Ivana Sekyrová

Ivana Sekyrová (, née Rubášová; born 13 October 1971) is a Czech long-distance runner. She represented her nation at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon. She is the Czech national record holder in the one hour run. Sekyrová has also achieved success in other athletics events including the 400 metres hurdles, 10,000 metres and half marathon.

Career Sekyrová won her first two national championships gold medals in the 1990s, both in the 400 metres hurdles event. Her first victory, in Nitra, was at the last meeting of the Czechoslovak Athletics Championships in 1992. She followed that up with another win in the 1994 Czech Athletics Championships. Sekyrová's distance of 16,422 metres set a Czech national record.

In 2010, Sekyrová finished second in the 10,000 metres at the Czech Athletics Championships, 11 seconds behind winner Petra Kamínková. She won the 2010 Běchovice – Prague Race and defended her title in 2011 with a time of 36 minutes, 3 seconds.

In May 2012's Czech Athletics Championships held in Hradec Králové, Sekyrová won the national title in the women's 10,000 metres. She competed in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 67th with a time of 2:37:14.

Sekyrová finished second behind Petra Pastorová at the 2013 Pardubice Viticultural Half Marathon, which served as the Czech national championship that year. In August 2011 she qualified for the 2011 World Mountain Running Championships.