OFFICIAL page of Olympic Champions on snowboard and ski Ester Ledecka

Bio

Snowboarding, Alpine skiing
Date of birth: 23 March 1995
Place of birth: Prague
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Ester Ledecká (born 23 March 1995) is a Czech snowboarder and alpine skier.

Ester dazzled the world in 2018, when she won gold medals in two separate disciplines at the same Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. She has put her name down firmly in modern sports history.

The world first noticed Ester back in 2011, at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, where she competed in three disciplines – boardercross, alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding, the last of which she won.

BIOGRAPHY

Ester Ledecká

Snowboarding, Alpine skiing
Date of birth: 23 March 1995
Place of birth: Prague
Facebook: esterledecka
Instagram: esterledecka

In 2013, she won the FIS Snowboarding Junior World Championship in both parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom and decided to become a professional skier and snowboarder. She devised a meticulous plan and stuck to it despite everyone who tried to dissuade her.

She is a veritable snowboarding superstar. She won four consecutive FIS World Cup Crystal Globes, a feat that had never been achieved by any snowboarder before, and she also won three small crystal globes for winning the parallel slalom overall standing. Her achievements are all the more impressive because her schedule (combining alpine skiing and snowboarding) does not allow her to compete in all World Cup races.

She won her first FIS Snowboard World Cup race in January 2014 in Rogla, Slovenia. Since then, her star has been rising. In 2015 she became World Snowboard Champion, and at the following World Championship she won another gold medal and also a silver.

In 2016, she started competing in both the FIS Snowboard World Cup and the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. In her first season in the Alpine Ski World Cup she managed to get into the top 30 in three disciplines: the downhill, the super-G and the super combined.

In the 2019–20 season, Ester ranked in the top places of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup standings for the first time: in December 2019, she won the downhill at Lake Louise, in February 2020 she placed third in the same discipline in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, adding a bronze medal from the alpine combined in Crans-Montana later the same month.
She is second in the overall standing of the Alpine Ski World Cup downhill discipline and third in the super combined.
She is a world class athlete in both snowboarding and alpine skiing. She can boast 19 wins in the World Cup and seven crystal globes.

Ester has won many awards for her outstanding performances. She was named the best athlete of the 2008–2018 decade and 2018 Sportsperson of the Year of the Czech Republic – with an amount of points awarded that no previous winner of the title had claimed in the sixty years’s history of the poll. She has also been named the Queen of the White Trail several times in a row. She has been nominated for numerous awards, including European sportsperson of the year and world sportsperson of the year. In 2017 she won the International Matteo Baumgarten Award for athletes who successfully combine sports career with university studies. She is an honorary citizen of Prague 1, holder of the ceremonial key to the city of Prague and holder of the Czech Medal of Merit awarded by the president of the Czech Republic. She can also boast the Superbrands Award which recognises the best trademarks in the world.

Interesting facts:

Ester’s grandfather is the ice hockey forward Jan Klapáč, 1972 World Champion and winner of two Olympic medals (bronze in 1964 and silver in 1968).

Ester’s grandfather is the ice hockey forward Jan Klapáč, 1972 World Champion and winner of two Olympic medals (bronze in 1964 and silver in 1968).

Her mother Zuzana, a former figure skater, serves as the head coach of the All STR TEAM and is responsible for Ester’s preparation for training sessions and races.

Her father, Janek Ledecký, is a famous Czech pop singer and world-renowned composer. His musical Hamlet – The Rock Opera has been performed in South Korea in five different stage productions in the last decade and has been played to more than 1,300,000 audience members worldwide.

Her brother Jonáš left the national junior snowboard team to pursue a career in the visual arts and music. He is a respected graphic novel illustrator, responsible for Ester’s superhero-style identity, and has designed her racing suit and snowboard.

The first race Ester competed in, aged 5, was one of a series of ski races called the Milca Cup. She won the race.

She is coached by Tomáš Bank and Franz Gamper (alpine skiing) and Justin Reiter (snowboarding). Her team further includes Michal Lešák (physiotherapy), Miloš Machytka (equipment manager) and Jan Klapáč (fitness coach).

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Snowboarding Alpine skiing

OLYMPIC GAMES	2×
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS	2×	2× Junior	1×
WORLD CUP	20×	9×	4×
OVERALL WORLD CUP VICTORIES PARALLEL DISCIPLINES	4×	1×	1×
OVERALL WORLD CUP VICTORIES PARALLEL GIaNT SLALOM	3×	1×	2×
OVERALL WORLD CUP VICTORIES PARALLEL SLALOM	2×

Olympic games	1×

world cup	3×	2×	3×

All achievements and recordsAll achievements

ALPINE SKIING

HIGHLIGHTS

Olympic gold in Super G (2018)
2x World Cup Downhill gold medal (2022 – Crans Montana, 2019 – Lake Louise)
World Cup Super G gold medal (2020 – Val d'Isere)
2x World Cup Downhill silver medal (2022 – Crans Montana, 2021 – Crans Montana)
World Cup Downhill bronze medal (2020 – Ga-Pa)
World Cup Alpine Combined bronze medal (2020 – Crans Montana)
Olympic Alpine Combined 4^th place (2022 – Beijing)
Olympic Super G 5^th place (2022 – Beijing)
World Championships Downhil 4^th place (2021 – Cortina d'Ampezzo)
World Championships Super G 4^th place (2021 – Cortina d'Ampezzo)
World Cup Downhill 4^th place (2019 – Lake Louise)
2018 Sportsperson of the Year (Czech Republic)

2021/2022

Downhill – 3^rd place (Cortina d'Ampezzo) – 22/2/2022
Super-G – 8^th place (Cortina d'Ampezzo) – 23/2/2022

2020/2021

Alpine combined – 8^th place (Cortina d'Ampezzo) - 15/2/2021
Downhill – 4^th place (Cortina d'Ampezzo) - 13/2/2021
Super-G – 4^th place (Cortina d'Ampezzo) - 11/2/2021
Super-G – 6^th place (Ga-Pa) - 1/2/2021
Super-G – 6^th place (Ga-Pa) - 30/1/2021
Downhill – 2^nd place (Crans Montana) - 22/1/2021
Super-G – 6^th place (St. Anton) - 10/1/2021
Downhill – 4^th place (St. Anton) - 9/1/2021
Super-G - 1^st place (Val d'Isere) – 20/12/2020
Downhill – 6^th place (Val d'Isere) – 18/12/2020
Downhill – 7^th place (Val d'Isere) – 19/12/2020

2019/2020

Alpine combined – bronze medal (Crans Montana) – 23/2/2020
Downhill – 5^th place (Crans Montana) – 22/2/2020
Downhill – 3^rd place (Ga-Pa) – 7/2/2020
Super-G – 10^th place (Rosa Khutor) – 2/2/2020
Alpine combined – 6^th place (Altenmarkt-Zauchensee) – 12/1/2020
Downhill – 8^th place (Altenmarkt-Zauchensee) – 11/1/2020
Downhill – 4^th place (Lake Louise) – 7/12/2019
Downhill – gold medal (Lake Louis) – 6/12/2019
2^nd place in overall standings in World Cup Downhill
3^rd place in overall standings in World Cup Alpine combined
10^th place in overall standings in World Cup

2018/2019

Downhill – 8^th place (Cortina d’Ampezzo) – 19/1/2019
Super-G – 11^th place (Val Gardena) – 19/12/2018
Downhill – 10^th place (Lake Louise) – 1/12/2018

SNOWBOARDING

Olympic gold (2018 – PGS, 2022 - PGS)
Winner of overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines (four times: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
World Champion (twice: 2015 – PS, 2017 – PGS)
20 World Cup gold medals (PGS, PSL)
Nor-Am Cup winner (1x PGS, 1x PSL)
Two-time Junior World Champion (2013 – PGS, PSL)
World Championship silver medal (2017 – PSL)
9 World Cup silver medals (PGS, PSL)
4 World Cup bronze medals (PGS, PSL)

2021/2020

Gold medal – PGS (Cortina d'Ampezzo) – 18/12/2021
Silver medal – PGS (Carezza) – 16/12/2021

2020/2021

Gold medal – PGS (Cortina d'Ampezzo) – 12/12/2020

2019/2020

Gold medal – PGS (Rogla) – 18/1/2020
Silver medal – PSL (Bad Gasten) – 14/1/2020

2018/2019

Winner of overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines
Silver medal – PGS (Scuol) – 9/3/2019
Silver medal – PGS (Secret Garden) – 23/2/2019
Bronze medal – PGS (PyeongChang) – 17/2/2019
Gold medal – PGS (PyeongChang) – 16/2/2019
Gold medal – PGS (Cortina d’Ampezzo) – 15/12/2018
Gold medal – PGS (Carezza) – 13/12/2018

2017/2018

Winner of overall standings in World Cup (PGS)
Gold medal – PGS (Scuol) – 10/3/2018
Silver medal – PGS (Kayseri) – 3/3/2018
Gold medal – PGS (Bansko) – 26/1/2018
Gold medal – PGS (Rogla) – 20/1/2018
Gold medal – PGS (Lackenhof) – 5/1/2018
Gold medal – PGS (Cortina d’Ampezzo) – 15/12/2017
Gold medal – PGS (Carezza) – 14/12/2017

2016/2017

Winner of overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines
Silver medal – PSL (Winterberg) – 18/3/2017
Gold medal – PGS (Kayseri) – 5/3/2017
Gold medal – PGS (Rogla) – 28/1/2017
Gold medal – PSL (Cortina d’Ampezzo) – 17/12/2016
Silver medal – PGS (Carezza) – 15/12/2016

2015/2016

Winner of overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines
Winner of overall standings in World Cup (PGS)
Gold medal – PGS (Kayseri) – 27/2/2016
Bronze medal – PSL (Moscow) – 30/1/2016
Gold medal – PGS (Rogla) – 23/1/2016
Gold medal – PGS (Carezza) – 12/12/2015

2014/2015

3^rd place in overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines
2^nd place in overall standings in World Cup (PGS)
Bronze medal – PGS (Asahikawa) – 28/2/2015
Gold medal – PGS (Sudefeld) – 7/2/2015
Gold medal – PSL (Bad Gastein) – 9/1/2015

2013/2014

2^nd place in overall standings in World Cup parallel disciplines
3^rd place in overall standings in World Cup (PGS)
2^nd place in overall standings in World Cup (PSL)
Gold medal – PGS (Rogla) – 18/1/20144
Bronze medal – PSL (Bad Gastein) – 12/1/2014
Silver medal – PSL (Bad Gastein) – 10/1/2014

Other achievements

Two-time winner of Nor-Am Cup (PGS, PSL)
2018 Sportsperson of the Year (Czech Republic)

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SOCIAL MEDIA

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