Adamczyková Wins: Return to Elite Competition

“The result exceeded expectations, I’m the queen of small finals, we know that,” Adamczyková smiled. “I take it as a positive that I made mistakes, but I got into racing. I was in that mode where you roll it down, you want to be the first, you give it everything,” she described.

“Again, super performances. Evka’s starts were a little worse, she sometimes made tactical mistakes, but she put everything together until the last run, that despite the mistake at the start she managed to win the small final, which is a great success. After the preparation, none of us thought that she would finish so well among the best in the world. Great,” praised the national team coach Marek Jelínek.

The last time Adamczyk went to the World Cup was last March, her son Kryštof was born at the turn of the year. During the test in the European Cup in Pitztal, she was eliminated in the quarter-finals, but the race in Cervinia was important for her from the point of view of the fight for the Olympics.

He has zero points from the last missed season and from the current winter only the race in Cervinia and after the New Year a couple of events in China will make it to the deadline.

The thirty-two-year-old snowboard cross-country skier won the qualification by 19 hundredths, before the race she added a freckle to her traditional painted mustache in honor of her son Kryštof.

Adamczyk’s entry into the race was slightly delayed. In the previous men’s round of 16, there was an unpleasant fall, a helicopter had to intervene. The Czech representative waited in the background in a good mood, sang to herself and when she got to the start, she did great.

She was in the lead from the first meters and when the catching up experienced British Charlotte Bankesová fell after the jump, Adamczyková rode confidently to the victory. At the finish line, she could happily pump herself up.

In the semi-finals, her start didn’t go so well, the Frenchwoman Lea Castaová, later the overall winner, took the lead. In the first half of the track, Adamczyk was also overtaken by the Italian Michela Moioli. The chase was in vain, a small final awaited the two-time world champion.

In it, she returned to her winning streak when she took a lead before the halfway point, which she never let go. She was happy with the fifth place, her husband Marek was one of the first to congratulate after the finish line.

“You can’t tell much from the training sessions, the racing mode is different. The qualification gave an indication, in the semi-final I made mistakes, in the small final I was glad to leave the start, Julia (The Niranis-Perreiras) I apologized for how I was meandering there. But I fixed it with the little final, I need to go out,” the Czech star described.

That is why he will go to China for a long time. “Even if I won here, it would be good to ride from a training point of view. There aren’t many tracks like in Sveták,” she realizes.

In the men’s race, Kryštof Choura presented himself. He injured his biceps and knee while riding before qualifying, but managed to advance to the race with tapes and pain pills. Jan Kubičík was also the last to pass the qualification. However, they did not do so well in the elimination races, when they finished in fourth place in the round of 16.

“I’m a little upset because I had ambitions to advance, the track suited me. But riding with an injury was worse, so qualifying for the elimination races was the maximum in this condition. I confirmed that if I’m healthy, I have more to do,” said Choura.

On Sunday, Cervinia hosts a mixed doubles race, which does not affect Olympic qualification. Most likely Choura and Adamczyk will go for the Czech Republic.

“I told her that the only important thing is not to kick ahead at the end,” recalled coach Jelínek of the four-year-old team race in Montafon, when Adamczyk broke both ankles after kicking the board to the finish line in second place.