Vlasta Děkanová
Born	(1909-09-05)September 5, 1909
Died	October 16, 1974(1974-10-16) (aged 65)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Czechoslovakia
Medal record Olympic Games 1936 Berlin Team Template:MedalWorldArtisticGymnasticsChampionships 1934 Budapest Team 1934 Budapest Individual all-around 1938 Prague Team 1938 Prague Individual all-around 1938 Prague Balance Beam

Vlasta Děkanová (September 5, 1909 – October 16, 1974) was a Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast two-time World All-Around Gymnastics Champion who also competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, she helped her Czechoslovakian team to the silver, this being her only Olympic medal due to the world wars and the lack of recognition of women for individual medals at the Olympic games until the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.

She also was two-time World All-Around Champion at successive World Gymnastics Championships (1934 and 1938), as well as Balance Beam Champion at the latter (some sources conflict^[1][2] as to what other events she won - vault and/or uneven/parallel bars) where women's individual event medals were first awarded. This makes her the most decorated woman gymnast at the worldwide level before the introduction of the women's full program (where women could compete, for the first time, for individual medals and not just team medals) into the Olympics, which occurred in 1952.

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