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Otilie Týmalová was born on 24 September 1934 in Borovany, but she and her family, father Alois Fuchs and mother Otílie Fuchsová, lived in České Budějovice. They went to Borovany very often and helped their grandparents in the Sýmalka inn. It was here that the witness got a lifelong affection for Sokol; her grandfather was a member of the Czechoslovak Church of the Brethren and one of the Sokol founders in České Budějovice. Father Alois Fuchs was in the regime’s sights after 1948 and the family had to move to Jindřichův Hradec. Otilie Týmalová started flying gliders there, and in the 1950s she switched to tobogganing, eventually competing in the national championships. After the revolution in 1989, she returned to Sokol and actively participated in its renewal. She was the chief of the Sokol from 1995 to 2000; she also worked as the secretary of the South Bohemian district of the Sokol. She received the gold Sokol Medal in 2016. After completing high school, she worked in the accounting department of the South Bohemian Power Plants all her life, and in 2024 she lived in České Budějovice.
