Tennis player from Prague and other talents. Gifted children received the Golden Nut award Company News Pražská Drbna
Four girls and three boys won the Golden Nut Award for 2021, which is intended for talented children from six to 14 years. The director of the Nut Foundation, Simona Šedá, informed about the winners of the 23rd year of the competition. Among the winners are musical talents, an exceptional ballerina, athlete and tennis player, an enthusiastic fisherman and a young popularizer of natural sciences. They have traditionally received a check worth 20,000 crowns for their talents.
Ballerina with musicians
Eleven-year-old ballerina Laura Mohylová from Olomouc received an award not only for her dance, but also for her talent in singing and playing several musical instruments, namely the flute, clarinet, piano and harp. According to the competition, the ballet received a recommendation from a pediatrician due to flat feet at the age of three. She is now the world champion in the Classical Ballet category and the world vice-champion in the Song and Dance category.
Fourteen-year-old Matthew Stephen Hockaday from Olomouc and twelve-year-old Alexandra Pokorná from Brno also master the game of more musical instruments. Born into a bilingual family, Matthew lived in the UK for six years, where he began playing the recorder. After returning to the Czech Republic, he added clarinet, piano and vocals. He holds many Czech and foreign awards. At the age of five, Alexandra loved playing the dulcimer. In 2021 she won the International Dulcimer Festival in Valašské Meziříčí, the year before she finished in second place.
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Athlete, fisherman and popularizer
Fourteen-year-old tennis player Tereza Valentová from Prague and a year younger biathlete and runner Monika Železníková from Babice near Uherské Hradiště received the award. Tereza currently plays for the Sparta Prague tennis club. The parents applied for the Golden Nut on the recommendation of the Czech Tennis Association, which considers the girl to be one of the greatest junior talents. Monika is a multiple winner of the Czech summer biathlon and cross-country running championships, the best woman in the five-kilometer run and the best younger student in the Czech Republic in the 1,500-meter run.
Eleven-year-old Zdeněk Vlach from Ždírec nad Doubravou in the Vysočina region, who has been leading fishing charts for up to 15 years, also won the award. Its biggest catch to date is according to the Gray Fourteen-kilogram carp, which measured 92 centimeters. The seventh winner is thirteen-year-old Jan Herzig, who is a successful solver of a number of science olympiads. For several years he has been fascinated by the universe, preparing professional lectures on selected topics, dealing with complex scientific topics and writing his own texts.
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The competition noted covid-19
The Golden Nut competition, similarly to a year earlier, was marked by the covid-19 epidemic. Thanks to the coronavirus, only one regional preliminary round was completed. From 152 applications, the organizers and professional advisers selected 21 nominated children and children’s groups.
Many children who took part in the Golden Nut competition in the past later achieved top successes. These include, for example, chess player David Navara, world and European bike trial champion Václav Kolář and pianist Lukáš Vondráček. In the past, the award was also won by the Boni Pueri choir or the Baby Ballet Prague dance ensemble.
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