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Renata Kolarova

Swiss speed skier (born 1966)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ140312035 ↗
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Renata Kolarova (born 14 April 1966) is a Swiss former speed skier. She won the bronze medal in the women's speed skiing demonstration event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

At the 1992 Olympics, Kolarova and the rest of the Swiss team were given the choice to race or withdraw after the death of their team colleague Nicolas Bochatay in a training run. Kolarova and Silvano Meli decided to compete while two other male racers withdrew. In the competition, Kolarova placed third with a speed of 210.526 kilometres per hour (131 mph).

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This entry incorporates text from “Renata Kolarova” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.