Matylda Pálfyová
Matylda Vilma Pálfyová (11 March 1912 – 23 September 1944) was a Slovak gymnast who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, helping her team to a silver medal.[4] In addition to her job, she worked hard on herself, which earned her participation in the search competition in sports gymnastics, which took place on 16 July 1935 in Prague.She scored 7.3 and took fourth place in the so-called elimination (i.e. nomination) Sokol competitions on 18 May 1936 and thereby secured participation in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.[9] At the 1938 World Gymnastics Championships in Prague, the strength of the Czechoslovak team, operating on the basis of the Sokol physical education units, was fully demonstrated.As a member of the Czechoslovakia team, Pálfyová won the title of world champion, while she received the highest marks in rings and vault.[6][10] In 1939, after the establishment of the First Slovak Republic, she quit gymnastics because she refused to train in the physical education organization Hlinkova garda.