Versatile Ledecka wins parallel giant slalom at snowboard world championships

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Ester Ledecka added different trophy to her postulation of silverware erstwhile she won the parallel elephantine slalom astatine the snowboard satellite championships connected Thursday successful St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The 3-time Olympic champ besides won bronze successful downhill astatine alpine skis worlds

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 20, 2025 11:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A women's snowboarder speeds down a elevation portion a spray of snowfall trails down her.

The three-time Olympic champion, who won bronze successful the downhill astatine the alpine skiing worlds successful February, was successful a people of her ain and dominated qualification past easy defeated each of her rivals en way to the final. There, she bushed the defending women's parallel elephantine slalom champion Miki Tsubaki of Japan.

It was Ledecka's archetypal snowboard satellite rubric successful 8 years.

The versatile Czech jock already had 2 golds and a metallic from parallel elephantine slalom races astatine the snowboarding worlds successful 2015 and 2017.

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2-time defending Olympic champ Ester Ledecká wins her 3rd PGS satellite title title

The 2018 and 2022 Olympic snowboard champion from the Czech Republic claimed her 3rd parallel elephantine slalom satellite rubric astatine the FIS snowboard satellite championships successful Corviglia, Switzerland.

"It's awesome," Ledecka said. "I haven't competed successful a satellite championships since (2017) due to the fact that it was hard with timing due to the fact that of skiing events."

Aleksandra Krol-Walas of Poland won the bronze medal contention implicit Ladina Caviezel of Switzerland.

Ledecka famously won Olympic golden successful skiing's super-G and snowboarding's parallel GS astatine the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, and added different golden connected her committee successful 2022 successful Beijing.

A scheduling contented astatine the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics — wherever the parallel GS successful snowboarding and the Alpine downhill are some acceptable for Feb. 8 astatine venues hours isolated — mightiness contradict her a accidental to replicate that accomplishment from 2018.

Roland Fischnaller of Italy, who is 44, won the men's rubric by defeating Stefan Baumeister of Germany successful the final. Lee Sang-ho won the bronze medal.

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Italy's Roland Fischnaller claims his 2nd vocation snowboard PGS satellite title

Fischnaller won the men's parallel elephantine slalom golden medal, astatine the FIS snowboard satellite championships successful Corviglia, Switzerland.

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