"I'm going to have a child with my partner. It would have been difficult to reconcile everything, so I decided to announce it to you," said Hejnova, 2013 and 2015 world champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the low hurdles. .

"I have had a great career (but) now I have to take on my new role," added the athlete, on the flank since September 2020 due to injuries.

Hejnova was named European Female Athlete of the Year in 2013, that of her first world title in Moscow where she set what is still her personal best in the women's 400m hurdles (52 sec 83).

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