Nickname
Vendi, Venda (Adela Merkova Instagram profile, 29 Nov 2021)
Hobbies
Cycling, skiing, snowboarding, inline skating, trampolining. (Facebook page, 30 Nov 2020)
Spoken languages
Czech, English
Club
Gymnastika Zlin: Czech Republic
Sporting relatives
Her twin sister Adela has also competed in parkour at World Cup level. (Gymnastika Zlin Facebook page, 12 Sep 2022)
Other sports
Before switching to parkour, she and her twin sister Adela competed in artistic gymnastics at international level. She represented the Czech Republic at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. (SportsDeskOnline, 18 Jan 2022; gymnastique.sport, 03 Jun 2019; swt-longinestiming.azurewebsites.net, 01 Jun 2016)
Start sporting career
She began artistic gymnastics at age four. She began training in parkour in early 2019 in Zlin, Czech Republic.
Reason for taking up the sport
She and her twin sister Adela were offered the chance to train in parkour after their artistic gymnastics careers ended. "The love of sport did not leave us even after the end of our gymnastics career, and when we got the offer to train in parkour in Zlin at the beginning of 2019 and to represent the Czech Republic again, we could not refuse."
Additional information
COACHING
She has worked as a coach at the Gymnastic Parkour Freerun Club [GPFC] in Prague, Czech Republic. (Parkourpraha GPFC Facebook page, 17 Feb 2021; parkourpraha.cz, 01 Jan 2020)
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