Šárka Strachová
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Strachová in December 2008
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| Disciplines | Slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Ski Team Krkonoš | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
11 February 1985 Benecko, Czechoslovakia |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 15 December 2002 (age 17) |
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| Retired | 28 March 2017 (age 32) |
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| Website | sarkastrachova.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (2006, 2010, 2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 9 – (2001–17) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 4 (1 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 15 – (2003–17) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 2 – (2 SL) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 17 – (17 SL) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (9th in 2007) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (2nd in SL, 2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Šárka Strachová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈʃaːrka ˈstraxovaː]; born Záhrobská on 11 February 1985) is a Czech World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Benecko, she specializes in the slalom event. Strachová is the first alpine racer representing the Czech Republic to medal at the Winter Olympics and at the World Championships and just the second Czech alpine skier ever to medal in the Olympics.
Záhrobská won the gold medal in slalom at the 2007 World Championships and narrowly missed a bronze in the super combined, finishing in 4th place by 0.20 seconds. Two years earlier, she won her first medal at the 2005 World Championships, taking the bronze in slalom while placing fifth in the combined. It was the first World Championships medal for a Czech alpine skier. In the 2006 Winter Olympics, Strachová finished 13th in slalom, 19th in the combined, and 27th in super-G; she did not finish the second run of the giant slalom.
On the World Cup circuit, Záhrobská made her debut in December 2002 at age 17 and finished 5th in her first race, a parallel slalom (an experimental format using a series of elimination races) in Sestriere, Italy. She ended the 2004 and 2006 seasons ranked in the top 10 in slalom, and broke into the top 30 in the overall ranking in 2006. She reached her first World Cup podium in January 2007, with a third place in the slalom on at Zagreb, Croatia, and followed it up with a 2nd place in the slalom three days later at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. This ended a 21-year-long drought for Czech alpine skiers on the World Cup podium, since Olga Charvátová took 2nd place in Bromont, Quebec, on 22 March 1986. She won her first World Cup race in November 2008 in Aspen, Colorado, and reached the podium two additional times in the 2009 season to finish as the runner-up in the season slalom standings. She won again at Aspen in November 2009.
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