Winter Olympics: Ester Ledecka retains snowboard parallel slalom title
Ester Ledecka is on course for a unique Winter Olympics double after retaining her women's snowboard parallel slalom title in Beijing.
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Snowboarding-Austria's Karl wins men's PGS gold, Ledecka retains women's title
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Austria's Benjamin Karl won gold in the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday in a unexpected final where none of the last Games medallists took the podium, while Czech Ester Ledecka retained the women's title.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Jennifer Hawkrigg inches from disaster as she nearly ‘cleans out’ Weronika Biela-Nowaczyk
Canada's Jennifer Hawkrigg very nearly cleaned out Poland's Weronika Biela-Nowaczyk in the first run of the parallel giant slalom qualifying round at the Genting Snow Park P & X Stadium. Hawkrigg, who was making her Olympics debut, was going nicely down the blue course before losing her balance on a turn and skidded off.
Snowboarding-Versatile Ledecka retains parallel giant slalom title
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Czech Ester Ledecka extended her winning Olympic streak as she secured the gold medal in women's snowboard parallel giant slalom (PGS) at the Beijing Games on Tuesday.
Snowboarding-Czech Ester Ledecka wins gold in women's parallel giant slalom final
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Czech Ester Ledecka won the gold medal in women's snowboard parallel giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Ester Ledecka tops the elimination leaderboard by two seconds as Czech progresses to next round
Ester Ledecka progressed to the next stage of the women’s parallel giant slalom, easing through the elimination run with a 1:23.63 time — over two seconds quicker than second place Ramona Hofmeister. Tsubaki Miki of Japan and Russian Olympic Committee’s (ROC) Sofiya Nadyrshina also qualified with the fourth and fifth best times respectively, Miki coming in at 1:27.15 and Nadyrshina marginally slower at 1:27.22.
Beijing 2022 Olympics spotlight - History maker Ester Ledecka out to astound all over again in China
Winter Olympics history maker Ester Ledecka has a passion for snowsport which surely cannot be rivalled among her elite peers — and she is aiming to make history all over again at Beijing 2022. Asked how she would deal with the theoretical choice of having to choose between ski and snowboard, the Czech last year told Eurosport she would rather “quit” than have to give something up. Ad/> After becoming the first athlete to win Olympic gold in two sports at the same Games, when she won the snowboard parallel giant slalom title and alpine skiing’s Super-G at Pyeongchang 2018, she made the front pages of newspapers around the world.