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Adamczyková did not win another medal at the World Championships, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals in the team race

Snowboardcrosser Eva Adamczyková did not win another medal after Wednesday’s triumph in the individual race at the World Championships in Bakuriani. With Radek Houser, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event.

The Czech team’s hopes of advancing from the first round dropped significantly in the opening race, in which Houser fell in the fight for second place and finished last. “I stuck with everyone from the start, it was slow down the long straight. Then I had contact with another rider, I didn’t keep it on the edge and fell,” Houser regretted on Facebook.

Adamczyková thus set out on the track with the maximum possible loss of four seconds, which is awarded in the event of a fall or a large distance from a male member of the team. Although the twenty-nine-year-old Czech star closed the gap on the trio of rivals, she did not get out of the last fourth place on the track slowed down by the rain.

“Four seconds here is enough. I took a second, I saw them in front of me, but the conditions are complicated here today. It’s rough for all of us, it’s snowing. There’s nothing we can do, we did our best, we tried and that’s important, ” she stated. Overall, the Czech pair ranked tied for 13th place.

The British Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes won, who partly made up for the disappointment of the individual race, in which she was eliminated in the round of 16 as the defending gold medalist. Austrians with Wednesday’s champion Jakob Dusek finished second, France was third. The British and French were opponents of the Czech team in the quarterfinals.

Two-time Olympic medalist and two-time world champion Adamczyk completed her first mixed doubles race since December 2021. In Montafon, she took second place with Jan Kubičík, but broke both legs above the ankles while crossing the finish line and missed the rest of the season, including the Olympic Games in Beijing. The native of Vrchlabí returned to the World Cup at the beginning of last December and completed her comeback on Wednesday in Georgia with a commanding victory in the individual race.

The mixed pairs were originally supposed to fight for medals on Saturday, but the organizers moved the race to today due to the unfavorable weather forecast.

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