Alpine Skiing: Ester Ledecka Wins Women’s Super-G and Brings the First Gold Medal in Alpine Skiing to the Czech Republic

Czech alpine skier, Ester Ledecka, gained her first Olympic gold as well as the first gold in alpine skiing for her country. She finished the Super-G race in 1 minute 21.11 seconds.

Ledecka admitted that first she couldn’t believe in her victory: “I was wondering what just happened. Is this a kind of mistake? I was thinking, ‘Ok, they’re going to change the time. I’m going to wait for a little bit and they’re going to switch and put some seconds on. I was just staring at the board and nothing was happening and everybody was screaming. I started to think, ‘Ok, this is weird”.

Anna Veith from Austria, a gold medalist of 2014 Winter Olympics in Super-G, became a silver medalist by finishing just 0.01 seconds later. And Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein finished in 1 minute 21.22 seconds and earned a bronze medal.

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The other good results were shown by:

4 Lara Gut (Switzerland) (bronze medalist of 2014 Winter Olympics in downhill) 1:21.23

5 Johanna Schnarf (Italy) 1:21.27

6 Federica Brignone (Italy) (bronze medalist of 2018 PyeongChang in slalom) 1:21.49

6 Lindsey Vonn (USA) (gold and bronze medalist of 2010 Winter Olympics) 1:21.49

8 Cornelia Hutter (Austria) 1:21.54

9 Michelle Gisin (Switzerland) 1:21.57

10 Viktoria Rebensburg (Germany) (gold medalist of 2010 and bronze medalist of 2014 Olympics in giant slalom) 1:21.62

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