Eva Kurfürstová

Eva Kurfürstová
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	August 30, 1977
place of birth	Karviná
size	163 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
society	Karviná Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	March 2014
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 8, 1995  Overall World Cup 91st ( 2007/08 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 55th ( 2005/06 )  Slalom World Cup 38th (2007/08)

Eva Kurfürstová (born August 30, 1977 in Karviná ) is a former Czech ski racer . She specialized in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom .

biography

Kurfürstová's first major international events were the Junior World Championships from 1994 to 1996. The best results she achieved was second 17th in the slaloms in 1994 and 1996 and eleventh in the 1994 combined ranking. In the European Cup , she came in ninth on December 13, 1996 for the first time in the giant slalom of Sankt Sebastian among the top ten and two years later in the slalom of Špindlerův Mlýn among the top five for the first time. She celebrated her first and so far only European Cup victory on January 5, 2006 in the slalom in Lenzerheide . The next day she came in second in the second slalom behind Norwegian Nina Løseth . With another four top 10 results, she reached fourth place in the overall slalom classification in the 2005/06 season and thus by far her best result in a European Cup discipline.

The Czech competed in the World Cup for the first time in January 1995. However, it took over ten years until she won her first World Cup points on December 21, 2005 in her 54th World Cup race, the giant slalom in Špindlerův Mlýn, with 28th place. In the 2005/06 season these were her only points and to this day they are the only ones she won in a World Cup giant slalom. The only World Cup points in the following season 2006/07 she got 21st place in the slalom of Aspen . In the 2007/08 season Kurfürstová came in four World Cup slaloms in the points. Her best World Cup result so far was 20th place in the slalom in Aspen on December 9, 2007. In the following years she was again without World Cup points.

Since 1996 Kurfürstová has competed in at least one discipline at every world championship . In her total of 13 starts she was classified in 6 races. Her best result was 18th place in the slalom at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg . In 2002 and 2006 she also took part in the Winter Olympics. In 2002 in Salt Lake City she was the best Czech in slalom and 23rd in giant slalom and in 2006 in Turin she came 28th in slalom.

At the end of the 2013/14 season, she resigned from top-class sport.

successes

winter Olympics

• Salt Lake City 2002 : 21st slalom, 23rd giant slalom
• Turin 2006 : 28th slalom

World championships

• Sestriere 1997 : 32nd slalom
• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 28th giant slalom
• St. Anton 2001 : 18th slalom
• St. Moritz 2003 : 28th slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 29th slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 31st slalom
• Schladming 2013 : 41st slalom

World cup

• Six placements among the top 30

European Cup

• 2005/06 season : 4th slalom classification
• One victory (slalom in Lenzerheide on January 5th, 2006) and a second place, another 18 top 10 results

Junior World Championships

• Lake Placid 1994 : 11th combination , 17th slalom, 27th giant slalom, 28th Super-G , 42nd descent
• Voss 1995 : 24th giant slalom, 39th descent
• Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 17th slalom, 19th giant slalom, 47th Super-G

Czech championships

• Kurfürstová is seven-time Czech champion : 5 × slalom (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2011) and 2 × giant slalom (1999, 2002)

Web links

• Eva Kurfürstová's website (Czech / English)
• Eva Kurfürstová in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Eva Kurfürstová in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Eva Kurfürstová in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )