Ester Ledecká
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23 March 1995 Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Residence | Prague, Czech Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Czech Republic
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| Sport |
Snowboarding Alpine skiing |
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| Event(s) |
Parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom Downhill, Super-G, Combined |
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| Club | Dukla Liberec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Richard Pickl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals |
 Gold medal in parallelslalom at Kreischberg 2015 Gold medal in parallel giantslalom at Sierra Nevada 2017  Silver medal in parallel slalom at Sierra Nevada 2017
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| Highest world ranking | 1st in Parallel World Cup (2016, 2017) |
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Medal record
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Ester Ledecká (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛstɛr ˈlɛdɛtskaː], born 23 March 1995) is a Czech snowboarder and alpine skier. She is the first Czech to win the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding at the FIS Snowboard World Cup.
Ledecká was born in Prague, to mother Zuzana, a figure skater and father Janek, a well-known singer in the Czech Republic. She comes from a sporting family: her grandfather is former ice hockey player and two-time Olympic medallist Jan Klapáč. In 2014, she was still at high school, attending a distance-learning programme in Prague. 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. Her hobbies include playing the guitar and singing. She also enjoys participating in summer sports such as beach volleyball and windsurfing.
She competed in her first World Cup tournament in 2012–13 competition, finishing in 13th place in the parallel giant slalom event.
In March 2013 at the age of 17, Ledecká won gold in the parallel slalom event at the Junior World Championships, her second gold of the competition.
She was named "Junior Sportsperson of the year" at the Czech Republic's 2013 Sportsperson of the Year awards.
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. In doing so, she also became just the third Czech to win any World Cup snowboarding event.
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