Miss World and MasterChef: Top women from Czechia, part 2

New Miss World is Krystyna Pyszková

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Brand new Miss World is from Czechia. Her name is Krystyna Pyszková. She was crowned on Saturday 9^th in Mumbai, India, where the international pageant of Miss World was held this year. Krystyna Pyszková, the new beauty queen of the world, has beaten 111 other contestants from around the globe.

Krystyna Pyszková comes from Třinec in Silesia part of Czechia, close to the borders with Poland, and has a passion for learning and exploring. She is currently pursuing a law degree at Charles University in Prague, as well as studying marketing in Austria. She is also a model and has a humanitarian project to educate children in Tanzania. She loves traveling, discovering different cultures, playing violin, and riding horses.

She is the second Czech woman to achieve this feat, following Taťána Kuchařová, who won the Miss World crown in 2006 in Warsaw.

Kristína Nemčková: The youngest winner of MasterChef

She became the world’s youngest winner of the MasterChef cooking competition. That was in 2018, when Kristína Nemčková was just 17 years old. This success led to Forbes including her in its 30 Under 30 rankings.
 
She used the money she earned to pay to for classes at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu school and worked at the Story restaurant in London. Now she works as sous-chef at the world's most famous restaurant, Geranium, in the Danish capital Copenhagen.



She has enjoyed baking and cooking since she was a little girl. At the age of 11, she started a social media profile called "I'm the MasterChef", now renamed as Made by Kristina. Since then, she has been sharing her culinary inspiration and recipes on social media.
 
She likes the restaurant Entrée in Olomouc, we can warmly recommend it, she had an internship at Aromi, a famous Italian restaurant in Prague. In main Czech metropole she does not miss a visit to the Asian luxury restaurant Taro.

Eliška Junková, the queen of fast cars

She knew personally Mr. Ferrari and Mr. Porsche and was an ambassador for Bugatti. She was the only woman in the history of the legendary Grand Prix who could keep up with even the best male drivers. That was Eliška Junková, the first lady of motorsport, who in her time was amongst the cream of the racing elite, holding her own among the men.
 
Her style was described as "smart", she drove shamelessly fast, and is still hailed in Czechia and around the world as the most famous female racing driver of all time. Her biggest achievements, not counting her two women's wins at the Paris Autodrome, were the first victory by a woman in the international hill race (Zbraslav–Jíloviště), her win at the First German Grand Prix in 1927, the 1928 Targa Florio and topping the leaderboard in the ladies and non-factory driver category.

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She helped choose the track at the Masaryk Circuit in Brno. Her name attracted some prominent racers at the time, such as Louis Chiron, the designers Ferdinand Porsche and Enzo Ferrari, and others. She later worked for Jan Baťa in Zlín, in the new tyre production department. It was there that she came up with the name Barum and pushed to keep the stylized Baťa font for this new brand, which Barum still uses today.
 
She lived in a house in Hradčany, Prague. The building now houses the Swedish Embassy. You can also go and see the world's oldest Bugatti with the serial number 365 in the National Technical Museum in Prague.

Olympic champion Eva Adamczyk likes to wear a moustache

Her maiden name was Eva Samková and she’s one of Czechia’s most successful athletes. Besides winning medals and awards for snowboarding, she became famous for appearing in the TV dance competition Star Dance. In 2014, she won the snowboard cross event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. This was the first gold medal for the Czechs, and the fifth ever Czech individual gold from the Winter Games.



She’s a woman with a great sense of humour. She has also made a name for herself by drawing a moustache on her face before she competes. Unfortunately, her love of sport has recently suffered a major setback due to a number of injuries, including very serious tibia fractures above both ankles, as well as family tragedies, both her parents having died of cancer. She has not given up and continues to race, winning the World Championship in her snowboard cross discipline.
 
Her role model is another great sportswoman from Czechia. Věra Čáslavská was the most successful Czechoslovak Olympic athlete, who won 7 gold and 4 silver Olympic medals in gymnastics, was World Champion four times and held the title of European Champion 11 times. After the Soviet occupation in 1968, she was persecuted for her political views.

Věra Chytilová, New Wave film star

Věra Chytilová was undoubtedly the most important and distinctive director and screenwriter in Czechia. She became world famous for films from the New Wave, or the Golden Sixties. The BBC even ranked her film Daisies as one of the top ten best films made by women.
 
The first lady of Czech cinema was born on 2 February 1929 in Ostrava, and studied architecture in Brno until she found her place at FAMU, the film and art college in Prague. There, she was in the same year as some other great names in Czech film, who went on to become famous all over the world, winning Oscars or Oscar nominations for their films. These included Jiří Menzel, Evald Schorm and Jan Němec.

 
She held some very sharp views on life and politics. She couldn't stand being bored, liked to improvise while shooting her films, asked a lot of herself and the actors, and didn’t mince words when it came to men. After all, she lived her life following this motto, which caught on in Czechia: "Yeah, men, they don’t get old. They look good with grey hair, glasses suit them, wrinkles are sexy. No varicose veins. No cellulite. No menopause. But then suddenly… they die.”

Pavlína Pořízková, famous model from Sports Illustrated and Playboy.

Pavlína Pořízková is an American model; she was born in Czechia but emigrated with her parents in 1968. She first worked in Sweden and moved to the U.S. after her success as a model in Paris. There, she was the youngest model in history to appear on the front page of Sports Illustrated swimwear magazine, and also on the cover of Playboy.


 
She signed a contract with the cosmetic company Esteé Lauder. People saw her in magazines, advertisements, and movies. In 1992, Harper's Bazaar magazine ranked her one of the ten most beautiful women in the world.
 
Nowadays she spends part of her time in Czechia, where she loves visiting an Old Town square with an “orloj”, the famous astronomical clock.