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Kateřina Nash (née Hanušová, born 9 December 1977 in Prachatice) is a Czech cross country skier and cyclist who competed from 1994 to 2003 in skiing and as of 2017 is still active in cycling. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she finished sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at Nagano in 1998 and had her best individual finish of 20th in the 15 km event in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Hanušová's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 19th in the 5 km + 10 km combined pursuit at Ramsau in 1999. Her best World cup finish was 18th in a 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit in the United States in 2001.
Hanušová earned four individual career victories up to 10 km in FIS races from 1997 to 2001.
In January 2010 she won an UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race in Roubaix and also finished 4th in 2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships and 3rd in 2011 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.
She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in 14th place in the women's cross-country mountain bike event.[2]
On 16 September 2015 she won the CrossVegas Cyclocross World Cup race in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was the first-ever UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race to be run outside Europe. Following her World Cup victory, she won The Night Weasels Cometh[3] in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on 30 September 2015.
