Ester Ledecká

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Ester Ledecká
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Personal information
Born (1995-03-23) 23 March 1995 (age 29)
Prague, Czech Republic
Residence Prague, Czech Republic
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country  Czech Republic
Sport Snowboarding
Alpine skiing
Event(s) Parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom
Downhill, super-G, combined
Club Dukla Liberec
Coached by Justin Reiter (snowboard)
Tomáš Bank, Ondřej Bank (ski)[1]
Achievements and titles
World finals Gold medal with cup.svg Gold medal in parallel
slalom at Kreischberg 2015
Gold medal with cup.svg Gold medal in parallel giant
slalom at Sierra Nevada 2017
Silver medal with cup.svg Silver medal in parallel slalom at Sierra Nevada 2017
Highest world ranking 1st in Parallel World Cup
(2016, 2017)
Medal record
Representing  Czech Republic
Women's snowboarding
International snowboarding competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 2 1 0
Junior World Championships 2 0 0
Total 5 1 0
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Parallel giant slalom
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kreischberg Parallel slalom
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sierra Nevada Parallel giant slalom
Silver medal – second place 2017 Sierra Nevada Parallel slalom
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Erzurum Parallel slalom
Gold medal – first place 2013 Erzurum Parallel giant slalom
Women's alpine skiing
International alpine skiing competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Championships 0 0 0
Total 1 0 0
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Super-G
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Ester Ledecká with Martina Sáblíková (left) at Old Town Square in Prague after their return from Olympic Games in South Korea

Ester Ledecká (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛstɛr ˈlɛdɛtskaː], born 23 March 1995) is a Czech snowboarder and alpine skier. At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang Ledecká won gold medals in the super-G in alpine skiing and in the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding. She is the first person to win two gold medals at the same Winter Olympics using two different types of equipment (skis and a snowboard). She is the second woman to win gold in two separate disciplines after Anfisa Reztsova, and the first woman to do so in a single Winter Olympics. She is the first Czech to win the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding at the FIS Snowboard World Cup.

Personal life

Ester Ledecká was born in Prague, to mother Zuzana, a figure skater[2] and father Janek, a well-known musician in the Czech Republic.[3][4] She comes from a sporting family: her grandfather is former ice hockey player Jan Klapáč, who was a seven-time World Championship and two-time Olympic medallist.[4] In 2014, she was still at high school, attending a distance-learning programme in Prague.[5]

Ice hockey was the first sport she took up as a child, before taking up skiing at the age of four and later switching to snowboarding.[2] Her hobbies include playing the guitar and singing.[6] She also enjoys participating in summer sports such as beach volleyball and windsurfing.[2]

Career

Ester Ledecká competed in her first World Cup tournament in 2012–13 competition, finishing in 13th place in the parallel giant slalom event.[3]

In March 2013 at the age of 17, Ester Ledecká won gold in the parallel slalom event at the Junior World Championships, her second gold of the competition.[7]

She was named "Junior Sportsperson of the year" at the Czech Republic's 2013 Sportsperson of the Year awards.[8]

During the 2013–14 FIS Snowboard World Cup, she placed second behind Patrizia Kummer in the first parallel slalom event in Bad Gastein and third in the second event. She subsequently won gold at Rogla in the parallel giant slalom event at the same competition, becoming the first Czech to do so.[9] In doing so, she also became just the third Czech to win any World Cup snowboarding event.[10]

Ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, The Daily Telegraph's Andrew Lawton mentioned Ledecká as the "one to watch" in the women's snowboarding competition.[9] She was among the Czech athletes most expected to win a medal at the games, along with Martina Sáblíková, Gabriela Soukalová and fellow snowboarder Eva Samková.[11] After Ledecka had finished ninth in qualifying for the Alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics, the Czech Ski Association attempted to register her as a competitor, however the FIS rejected the proposal, reiterating that only eight Czechs could compete.[6][12]

Ledecká made her Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics on 19 February 2014 in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding event. She reached the quarter final stage before being eliminated by Patrizia Kummer, who went on to win the gold medal in the event. Ledecká was classified as seventh overall.[13]

Ledecká has combined her snowboarding career with competing in alpine skiing: she made her debut on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in February 2016, finishing 24th in her first race, the Kandahar downhill in Garmisch.[14] She went on to score points in four of her first five World Cup races, competing in the downhill and Super-G disciplines.[2] In 2017 she became the first sportsperson to compete in World Championships in both skiing and snowboarding, taking a gold in the parallel giant slalom and a silver in the parallel slalom at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, and scoring top 30 finishes in the downhill, super-G and alpine combined at the Alpine Skiing World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1]

Ledecká made her Olympic debut in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, while also being qualified for alpine snowboarding. She won the gold medal in super-G in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics in a historic upset. She was visibly shocked after finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of the 2014 Olympics defending gold medalist Anna Veith, who had already been proclaimed the winner by many media outlets.[15][16] Ledecká was ranked 49th in the event prior to the Olympics and had never medalled in any international skiing event.[17] After victory in the parallel giant slalom she became the first ever female athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in two different sports during the same Winter Olympics.[18] She was chosen as the flag bearer for the Czech Republic at the closing ceremony.[19]

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[20]

Snowboarding

Season titles

  • 5 titles – (3 parallel overall, 2 parallel giant slalom)
Season Discipline
2016 Parallel overall
Parallel giant slalom
2017 Parallel overall
2018 Parallel overall
Parallel giant slalom

Season standings

Season  Age  Parallel
overall		 Parallel
slalom		 Parallel
giant slalom
2013 17 15 16 15
2014 18 2 2 3
2015 19 3 8 2
2016 20 1 5 1
2017 21 1 2 3
2018 22 1 16 1

Standings through 3 March 2018.

Race podiums

  • 15 wins – (13 PGS, 2 PSL)
  • 22 podiums – (16 PGS, 6 PSL)
Season Date Location Discipline Place
2013–14 10 January 2014 Austria Bad Gastein, Austria Parallel slalom 2nd
12 January 2014 Parallel slalom 3rd
18 January 2014 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia  Parallel giant slalom  1st
2014–15 9 January 2015 Austria Bad Gastein, Austria Parallel slalom 1st
7 February 2015 Germany Sudelfeld, Germany Parallel giant slalom 1st
28 February 2015 Japan Asahikawa, Japan Parallel giant slalom 3rd
2015–16 12 December 2015 Italy Carezza, Italy Parallel giant slalom 1st
23 January 2016 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia Parallel giant slalom 1st
30 January 2016 Russia Moscow, Russia Parallel slalom 3rd
27 February 2016 Turkey Kayseri, Turkey Parallel giant slalom 1st
2016–17 15 December 2016 Italy Carezza, Italy Parallel giant slalom 2nd
17 December 2016 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Parallel slalom 1st
28 January 2017 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia Parallel giant slalom 1st
5 March 2017 Turkey Kayseri, Turkey Parallel giant slalom 1st
18 March 2017 Germany Winterberg, Germany Parallel slalom 2nd
2017–18 14 December 2017 Italy Carezza, Italy Parallel giant slalom 1st
15 December 2017 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Parallel giant slalom 1st
5 January 2018 Austria Lackenhof, Austria Parallel giant slalom 1st
20 January 2018 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia Parallel giant slalom 1st
26 January 2018 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria Parallel giant slalom 1st
3 March 2018 Turkey Kayseri, Turkey Parallel giant slalom 2nd
10 March 2018 Switzerland Scuol, Switzerland Parallel giant slalom 1st

Alpine skiing

Season standings

Season  Age  Overall Super-G Downhill
2016 20 93 42 37
2017 21 77 38 34
2018 22 68 43 25
  • Standings through 4 February 2018

Top 10 results

Season Date Location Discipline Place
2017–18 2 December 2017 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill 7th

Olympic results

  • 2 medals – (2 golds)

Snowboarding

  • 1 medal – (1 gold)
Year  Age  Parallel
slalom		 Parallel
giant slalom
Russia 2014 Sochi 18 6 7
South Korea 2018 Pyeongchang 22 N/A 1

Alpine skiing

  • 1 medal – (1 gold)
Year  Age  Giant slalom Super-G
South Korea 2018 Pyeongchang 22 23 1

World Championships results

Snowboarding

  • 3 medals – (2 gold, 1 silver)
Year  Age  Parallel
 slalom 		 Parallel
giant slalom
Spain 2011 La Molina 15 40 33
Canada 2013 Stoneham 17 17 16
Austria 2015 Kreischberg 19 1 5
Spain 2017 Sierra Nevada 21 2 1

Alpine skiing

Year  Age  Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Slalom Combined
 Switzerland  2017 St. Moritz 21 21 29 37 – 20

See also

References

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Preceded by Czech Junior Athlete of the Year
2013
2015 (with Jiří Janošek)		 Succeeded by
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