Eva Samková

Eva Samková
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	28th April 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Vrchlabí ,  Czech Republic
Career
discipline	Snowboard cross
society	Dukla Liberec
Trainer	Marek Jelínek, Jakub Flejšar
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Snowboard cross bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Snowboard cross  Snowboard world championships gold 2019 Park City Snowboard cross  X-Games silver 2014 Aspen Snowboard cross silver 2016 Aspen Snowboard cross  Winter Universiade gold 2013 Trentino Snowboard cross  Snowboard Junior World Championships gold 2010 Cardrona Snowboard cross gold 2011 Valmalenco Snowboard cross gold 2013 Erzurum Snowboard cross
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup December 7, 2010  World Cup victories 14th  Snowboard cross world cup 1. ( 2016/17 , 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Snowboard cross 14th 7th 4th
last change: December 13, 2019

Eva Samková (born April 28, 1993 in Vrchlabí ) is a Czech snowboarder who specializes in snowboard cross and who became an Olympic champion in this discipline in 2014.

Career

Samková, who starts for Dukla Liberec , started snowboarding cross training with Marek Jelínek and Jakub Flejšar in 2008 . In the 2009/10 season she took part in the European Cup. She got three wins and took second place twice. She won the snowboard cross rating. She drove her first World Cup race in March 2010 in Chiesa in Valmalenco , which she finished in twelfth place. At the 2010 Snowboard Junior World Championships in Cardrona she won the gold medal. In the 2010/11 season she reached sixth place in Stoneham, her first top ten placement in the World Cup. At the 2011 Snowboard World Championships in La Molina , she was fifth. In March 2011 she came on the podium for the first time with second place in Chiesa in Valmalenco and won the gold medal at the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2011 as in the previous year. She finished the season in seventh place in the Snowboard Cross World Cup.

After 14th and 8th place in the World Cup at the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Samková won her first World Cup victory in Blue Mountain, Canada . This was followed by three top ten placements, including third place in Veysonnaz . At the season highlight of the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham , she came seventh. In February 2013 she became the Czech snowboard cross champion. The following month she won the gold medal at the 2013 Junior Snowboarding World Championships in Erzurum . She finished the season in fourth place in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, she won her second World Cup victory in Montafon and won the gold medal at the 2013 Winter Universiade . In January 2014 she won the World Cup in Vallnord-Arcalís and won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2014 in Aspen . The following month, she won the snowboard cross final at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games ahead of Dominique Maltais (Canada) and Chloé Trespeuch (France) . At the end of the season she was fifth in the Snowboard Cross World Cup.

The following year Samková finished sixth at the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . In March 2015 she became the Czech champion. After finishing 13th at the World Cup in Montafon at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, she made it into the top ten seven times. She won third place twice and second place once. She also won in Feldberg and Sunny Valley and at the end of the season she finished second in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. She won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen . In the following season, she won two World Cups and also took second place three times. She won the snowboard cross world cup with it. At the season highlight of the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she finished 12th.

In the 2017/18 season , Samková took three victories and finished second once, reaching fifth place in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. She had to win her World Cup victory on March 10, 2018 in Moscow "twice". At first, not all gates had opened at the start, so there was a restart. Samková won the run, after which there was a protest by other team leaders, which is why the run was canceled and rerun, but the Czech prevailed again. She won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

In the 2018/19 season she won three world cup races and took her first world title at the World Championships in Park City . She also took second and third place in the World Cup, winning the Snowboard Cross World Cup. The following season she was fourth in the Snowboard Cross World Cup. She won her 14th World Cup victory in Montafon .

A special feature of Samková is a mustache that is always clearly visible.

World Cup victories

No.	date	place
1.	February 2, 2013	Blue Mountain
2.	December 7, 2013	Montafon
3.	January 12, 2014	Vallnord-Arcalís
4th	January 23, 2016	Feldberg
5.	February 21, 2016	Sunny Valley
6th	January 21, 2017	Solitude
7th	February 12, 2017	Feldberg
8th.	20th January 2018	Erzurum
9.	March 3, 2018	La Molina
10.	March 10, 2018	Moscow
11.	22nd December 2018	Cervinia
12.	2nd March 2019	Baqueira beret
13.	16th March 2019	Veysonnaz
14th	December 13, 2019	Montafon

Overall snowboard cross world cup placements

season	Points	space
2009/10	370	30th
2010/11	2050	7th
2011/12	110	37.
2012/13	2960	4th
2013/14	2430	5.
2014/15	-	-
2015/16	5060	2.
2016/17	5170	1.
2017/18	4160	5.
2018/19	4400	1.
2019/20	3210	4th

Web links

Commons : Eva Samková  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (Czech, English)
• Eva Samková in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Why Olympic gold medalist Eva Samkova wears a mustache during snowboardcross , Yahoo Sports, February 16, 2014, accessed February 1, 2019.