At the beginning, Věra Čapková had nothing to do with fishing. But her husband, a doctor, was passionate fisher as his grand-dad had been. During their honeymoon near Světlá nad Sázavou town he introduced her fishing and she did catch her first pike. He challenged her to join the castingsport. As she was studying faculty of sport education, she was very closed to sport. She loved swordplay and skiing but she wanted to meet castingsport.

It was a time of two organizations - ICF (International Casting Federation) and CIPS with part of casting, called Federation of Casting Sport (FCS) later on. ICF was casting to water, CIPS was casting to target on land. In 1961 CIPS introduced its first rules of castingsport containing 10 events (6 events for ladies).

Beginning of castingsport was not easy. As Věra Čapková remembers, no material or know-how we had in Czechoslovakia. When someone came to our republic for fishing and knew something about casting, Prague made a deal with him/her about some exhibition. Some of them even brought blanks and other stuff, paid by Prague club. But sometimes it was possible to buy an equipment. Casters bought their bamboo rod by themselves and for spinning distance very popular reel called "Tap" made by Mr. Tlustoš could be bought.

We can find first information about Věra in almanac from 1974 made by Czech Angling Union for 40th anniversary of casting in Czech republic. There we can see Věra on a photo from 1961. That time casting ladies from East Germany came to Prague and introduced events of CIPS rules to Czech casters.

Among the supporters and teachers of our casting ladies we can even find the greatest caster that time, Helga Wischer (3rd lady from left).
Close to her we can see the first Czech medalist, Ludmila Geryková (2nd lady from left) that gained bronze medal in 1960. We can also see Marie Wolfová (4th from left), national team partner of Věra Čapková at world championships in 1963 and 1964 and also the second world champion from czechoslovakia (fly arenberg - 1964).

But there was another action in 1963 - 4th world championship of CIPS, hosted by Zürich (Switzerland). Czechoslovakia sent team of men and also team of women, Věra Čapková and Marie Wolfová. They had to deal with very strong team from East Germany - Helga Wischer and Hanna Maisel. Marie Wolfová could gain silver in her perfect event - fly arenberg.

But lot of medals was given to Věra Čapková. She gained bronze medal at spinning arenberg and silver medal in spinning distance. Spinning distance was her the most popular event till metal plug was still used.

In fly event she event won the first gold medal for czechoslovakia. She did cast 84 centimeters more than Hungarian Mrs. Barth and 1.17 meters more than Helga Wischer. She also gained 3rd place in spinning triathlon and 3rd place in fly triathlon. In all-round she was on 3rd place too, just behind Helga and Hanna.

Great first participation meant 6 medals for Věra (1 - 1 - 4). Plus she got silver for 2nd place in team competition, that she was fighting together win Marie Wolfová.

1965 was sad, no national championship, no world championship.

But 1966 contained both champs. National one was hosted by Tábor town on 8th to 10th June. This championship was legen - wait for it - dary. No needs Věra Čapková to get down from podium of first place because she won everything. In addition to that she made a problem to men too. She had full points in in fly skish as the only lady. There was only one man that was able to cast full point of fly skish - František Mrkáček (from České Budějovice city). Věra also had 100 point in fly arenberg that only her colleagues Josef Bejšák, Jan Kolek and František Dušánek were able to cast too.

On this competition and in her most favorite event - spinning distance - she was able to cast 72.53 meters that was new national and world record too. Best man had 4 meters less than Věra. For more, Věra gained 7 points more in all-round than best man, Jan Kolek.

This year, czechoslovakia hosted world championship for first time. It was placed to Slovakian town Svit. Among the organizers there were great legend names like Marie Wolfová or one of greatest national supporter of casting, Mr. Jaroslav Skuhra.

Again, Věra Čapková won a gold medal. Gained at fly arenberg. She added bronze medals for spinning arenberg, spinning distance and fly triathlon. So Věra got 4 medals (1 - 0 - 3) and bronze for team, gained with her partner Božena Křenková.

In 1967 there was 7th world championship in Bulgarian Varna. In point of Czech ladies this was the greatest championship until new century. Duo Věra Čapková - Božena Křenková gained 6 gold from 9 available. Věra won 4th gold medal in spinning arenberg, 5th gold medal in fly arenberg and 6th gold for winning the all-round. In addition to those she gained silver in fly skish and spinning triathlon and also bronze medals for spinning distance and fly triathlon. In summary, Věra gained 8 medals from 9 available (3 - 2 - 3). Aaand gold from team competition. Following counts of medals for each championship, this was the greatest world championship of Věra's career.

8th world championship was hosted by Güstrow in East Germany. The same members on Czech ladies team, bronze medal this time. Věra could won 7th gold medal for fly arenberg and added bronze medals for spinning arenberg and fly triathlon.

9th world championship was placed to Kiel of West Germany. Ladies team consisted of Věra Čapková and Růžena Zelinková. Bronze medal gained. Věra won 8th gold for spinning distance and added silver for fly skish and spinning triathlon. She also got bronze ones for spinning skish and all-round.

10th world championship was in Swedish Kalmar. First competition where ICF and CIPS did cast together. Not so easy champ, Czech caster had to deal with casting to water courts. There also were new events not know by CIPS rules. For first time there was pentathlon. But this competition was quite successful for Czech men. Jan Kapustík had great time, he won first gold medal for Czech men and he got first medal from pentathlon.

Věra Čapková was also great, 9th gold medal for spinning distance in new world record. It was so big distance so she would be sixth in men category. The result was even longer and casts of all Czech men. She also got silvers for fly skish, fly distance and pentathlon and she got bronzes for fly triathlon and spinning triathlon.

With nine titles of world champion and medal summary of 38 medals (9 - 11 - 18) and 7 team medals (1 - 1 - 5) Věra said goodbye to old rules. Since 1971 CIPS prepared new rules and new events.

New saga of castingsport started.

Legendary year 1982. The year Czechoslovakia hosted world championship for second time. Placed to Karlovy Vary. It was very important competition for czechoslovakia team. Members had to attend four special preparation camps. Věra Čapková was in final nomination together with Iva Světelská and Alena Člaňková (Alena Kläusler).

The results of all caster were incredible. For example, 5 ladies had 100 points from fly skish, four times 98 points from spinning arenberg, twice 100 points from spinning skish.. The rivalry was big and hard. But every Czech lady got medal. Věra got the gold one (19th gold) from spinning arenberg. She also got silver at spinning distance, only 4 cm for gold. Ladies team consisted of Věra and Alena gained bronze medal. Although there were much younger ladies, Věra was still convincing about her casting quality.

European championship in 1983 was placed to Duisburg, West Germany. And wait a second - this was not a championship. Only an European cup! No medals for events, only medals for pentathlon and team competition. A pity. But Věra gained a medal, she was third in pentathlon and at team competition she and Alena won.

Year 1983 for one more time. International cup of friendship in Prague was a great competition for Věra. She made a new record in pentathlon - 595.605 points.

And this was it. No more championships with Věra Čapková. For some time people were saying that she should leave team and let younger ladies cast for team. So after 1984 she was simple not chosen for team. Although she was still attacking first three places on national competitions, she never participated another world or European championship. But 6 years later, in 1990 she was still be able to win a national cup (Memorial of Jiří Vítek, Pilsen). A year later she was still in first 3 ranking places (Cup of south Bohemia, České Budějovice).

Since 1991 she participated national Veteran cup (7th cup that time). But sometimes she participated national championship and won her favorite spinning distance (1997, České Budějovice) and then she was casting for happiness again. But, it was not good as before, the casting was different. Since new rules after 1993 plastic plug and 0.18mm line size required different technique and Věra was not able to feel the plug on rod tip as before. But - she was able to gain a medal from that event in 2005 (national championship in České Budějovice).

Since 2003 she started to participate Veteran world championship. Again she was gaining gold medals (like 3 golds in 2005 or 3 golds in 2007, ...). But in her words, she was never caring of medals. She did much more respect the results, how many point the caster had or how far she or he did cast.

The true is that not only medals but also lot of records and incredible result Věra had a lot.