Markéta Sluková

Sluková competed on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and was named the FIVB Rookie of the Year in 2010 with her partner Kristýna Kolocová.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idnes.cz/sport/ostatni/kolocova-a-slukova-ziskaly-cenu-pro-beachvolejbaloveho-novacka-roku.A101112_133602_vol_beach_rou|title=Kolocová a Sluková získaly cenu pro beachvolejbalového Nováčka roku|language=cs|trans-title=Kolocová and Sluková won the prize for beach volleyball Rookie of the Year|work=idnes.cz|date=12 November 2010|access-date=2 April 2025}} With Kolocová she achieved fifth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. During the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Sluková and Kolocová won gold medals at the Prague Open and Berlin Grand Slam,{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/Open/2013/Event/viewPressRelease.asp?No=45904&Language=en&TournCode=WPRA2014|title=Prague Open 2014 Press Release|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/WorldTour/2013/Event/viewPressRelease.asp?No=46845&Language=en&Tourncode=WBER2014|title=Berlin Grand Slam 2014 Press Release|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} as well as a bronze medal at the Gstaad Grand Slam.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/WorldTour/2014/Event/viewPressRelease.asp?No=47184&Language=en&Tourncode=MGST2014|title=Gstaad Grand Slam 2014 Press Release|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}

From August 2015 until 2021, Sluková played with Barbora Hermannová,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fivb.com/players/players-database/player/120746/|title=Barbora Hermannová|last=|first=|date=|website=FIVB Player Database|publisher=|access-date=2 April 2025}} and they were coached by Simon Nausch. Their first success was winning gold at the October 2015 World Tour tournament in Antalya. The pair reached the final of the {{ill|2016 European Beach Volleyball Championships|de|Beachvolleyball-Europameisterschaft 2016}}, winning silver after losing in the final to defending champions Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. It marked the first time a Czech team had won a European medal in beach volleyball since 2002, and Sluková was named the championship's most valuable player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idnes.cz/sport/ostatni/finale-me-v-plazovem-volejbalu-slukova-hermannova.A160605_161156_volejbal_par|title=Sluková a Hermannová získaly na evropském šampionátu stříbro|language=cs|trans-title=Sluková a Hermannová won silver at the European Championships|work=idnes.cz|date=5 June 2016|access-date=2 April 2025}} They took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where they reached the round of 16.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/sport/ostatni-sporty/plazovy-volejbal-navrat-marketa-nausch-slukova-olympijske-hry-v-parizi_2208241214_lis|title=Nausch Sluková se vrací po porodu dcery. S hvězdnou Havelkovou chce na olympiádu|language=cs|trans-title=Nausch Sluková returns after giving birth to a daughter. She wants to go to the Olympics with star Havelková|work=Czech Radio|date=24 August 2022|access-date=2 April 2025}}

Although they qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, held in 2021, the team had to withdraw after Nausch Sluková became the fifth member of the Czech team to test positive for COVID-19, just two days before the start of the competition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/sport/olympijske-hry/markete-nausch-slukova-covid-olympiada-plazovy-volejbal-nakaza-izolace_2107221703_mim|title=Noční můra pro každého olympionika, říká Nausch Sluková. Beachvolejbalistka Tokiu obětovala vše|language=cs|trans-title=Nightmare for every Olympian, says Nausch Sluková. Beach volleyball player sacrificed everything for Tokyo|first=Štěpán|last=Pokorný|work=Czech Radio|date=22 July 2021|access-date=2 April 2025}} Due to the same reason, Nausch Sluková did not participate in August 2021's European Championships, and was replaced in the Czech team by Marie-Sára Štochlová.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/sport/ostatni-sporty/marketa-nausch-slukova-plazovy-volejbal-evropsky-sampionat-nakaza-covid_2108061723_mim|title=Plážová volejbalistka Nausch Sluková přijde i o mistrovství Evropy, izolace jí znemožnila přípravu|language=cs|trans-title=Beach volleyball player Nausch Sluková will also miss the European Championship, quarantine prevented her from training|work=Czech Radio|date=6 August 2021|access-date=2 April 2025}} At the end of August 2021 Nausch Sluková announced she was taking a break from the sport to start a family.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/sport/ostatni-sporty/nausch-slukova-hermannova-beachvolejbal-pauza_2108311519_mov|title=Nausch Sluková si dá od beachvolejbalu pauzu, chce založit rodinu. Láká ji návrat na olympiádě v Paříži|language=cs|trans-title=Nausch Sluková is taking a break from beach volleyball to start a family. She is tempted to return for the Paris Olympics|first=Alena|last=Benešová|work=Czech Radio|date=31 August 2021|access-date=2 April 2025}}

Sluková married Austrian volleyball coach Simon Nausch in the United States in 2016 after a seven-year relationship.{{Cite web|url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/revue/spolecnost/marketa-maki-slukova-simon-nausch-svatba-usa-bez-kiki.A160915_141925_lidicky_zar|title=Tajná svatba Maki v USA. Plážová volejbalistka Sluková je vdanou paní|language=cs|trans-title=Maki's secret wedding in the USA. Beach volleyball player Sluková is a married woman|first=Rastislav|last=Zárodňanský|work=idnes.cz|date=15 September 2016|access-date=2 April 2025}} On 26 December 2021, Nausch Sluková posted on her Instagram that she was excited to be expecting a baby with her coach Simon Nausch.{{cite web|title=Radostná zpráva! Plážová volejbalistka Nausch Sluková je těhotná|date=26 December 2021|url=https://www.sport.cz/clanek/micove-sporty-radostna-zprava-plazova-volejbalistka-nausch-slukova-je-tehotna-3012916|publisher=sport.cz|access-date=27 December 2021}} She gave birth to a daughter in June 2022.

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|File:Kolocová Sluková autogramiáda Blanka 2012 02.JPG|Sluková with her first teammate, Kristýna Kolocová, in 2012

|File:Magazín ČD pro vás.PNG|Sluková and Kolocová on the cover of {{ill|ČD pro vás|cs}} magazine (March 2013)

|File:20180804 Beach Volleyball Vienna Major 3210.jpg|Sluková and Barbora Hermannova celebrate their gold medal at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Major Series Vienna on 4 August 2018

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Category:1988 births

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