{"id":41804,"date":"2020-02-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378974"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:00:00","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-jana-hlavaty-nordic-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-jana-hlavaty-nordic-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: Jana Hlavaty, Nordic skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakPerformers2-SDN-021420-897x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"wp-image-378975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakPerformers2-SDN-021420-897x1024.jpg 897w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakPerformers2-SDN-021420-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakPerformers2-SDN-021420-768x876.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/PeakPerformers2-SDN-021420.jpg 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\"><figcaption><strong>Jana Hlavaty, a native of Czechoslovakia, has been one of the most influential figures in Summit County winter sports since she relocated to the United States and represented Team USA in Nordic skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.<\/strong><br \/><em>Summit Daily file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Readers are invited to nominate their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. The Summit Daily News is accepting nominations through Saturday. To make a nomination, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.secondstreetapp.com\/Peak-Performers-2020\/\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em> <em>Voting begins Feb. 23.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: Jana Hlavaty<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: Nordic skiing<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Czechoslovakia, Jana Hlavaty has found a home as one of the most influential figures in the Summit County Nordic skiing community after a long career as a Nordic skier that included a spot on Team USA at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>After skiing for the Czech national team, Hlavaty relocated to the U.S., and the endurance racer competed in the 5-kilometer, 10K, 20K and relay races at the 1976 games. She did so after having her U.S. Oath of Allegiance only two days before she left for the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>As the director of programs at the Keystone Nordic Center for decades, Hlavaty has been a force in helping people of all ages learn to ski and enjoy the sport here in Summit County. Her work at the Keystone Nordic Center has included teaching classic and skate skiing via a women\u2019s clinic called Mountain Women.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-performers-nominee-jana-hlavaty-nordic-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jana Hlavaty, a native of Czechoslovakia, has been one of the most influential figures in Summit County winter sports since she relocated to the United States and represented Team USA in Nordic skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.Summit Daily file Editor\u2019s note: Readers are invited to nominate their all-time favorite Summit County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 12:05:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}