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Czech athlete Eliška Klučinová has won the bronze medal in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague. The 26-year-old Klučinová took 4687 points, creating a new national record in the women’s pentathlon and setting her own personal record in 60 metres hurdles, shot put and 800 metres. Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson took the gold with 5000 points, ahead of Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam, who took 4700 points.

A court in Prague on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man to seven years in prison for killing a woman in a hit-and-run incident. Last August, Marek Půček drove his black BMW into a bus stop at Prague’s district of Smíchov, hitting a 21-year-old woman who died at the scene. He abandoned the car and fled before turning himself in to the police later that day after his photo appeared in the media. The man received a suspended sentence for breaking into cars and shops in the past.

The transport of munition from the Vrbětice depot, which was severely damaged last year by a blast, to an army storage site in Květná will continue on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Zlín police department told the ctk news agency on Friday. Thirty-one lorries with munition belonging to several private companies have so far been removed from the site. According to the Interior Ministry, there were some 7,000 tonnes of ammunition, including some 1,000 tonnes of explosives, in the storage facility at the time of the blast. The ministry expects it will take up to 400 lorries to remove all the material.

Czech farmers made a record profit in 2014, according to the figures released by the Czech Statistics Office on Friday. Agricultural earnings increased by nearly 40 percent, to 22.9 billion crowns, which represents the best results since 1989, when monitoring started. The record figure is the result of an extraordinarily good harvest and higher subsidies. The value of agricultural production increased by more than eight billion crowns compared with 2013 to 136.6 billion. Revenues from cultivation of crops reached 79.5 billion and livestock production rebounded after several years of decline to total 51.6 billion.