Stock Photo - ***FILE PHOTO FROM 2012 Summer Olympics, London, August 2nd, 2012.*** Czech kayaker Stepanka Hilgertova, a double Olympic winner in water slalom, ends her professional sport career at the age of 49 years, she has said in an interview with the Czech Olympic Committee's website, October 19, 2017. Her job contract in the Dukla sport club will expire at the end of October. She said she would like to keep competing on an amateur level. Hilgertova started at six Olympic Games from Barcelona in 1992 to London in 2012. She won gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 and in Sydney four years later. She gained the World Cup title twice, in 1992 and 1998. She also won 15 medals at the European Championships, including seven golds. (CTK Photo/Radek Petrasek)