Ekaterina Nikolaevna Tudegeschewa

Ekaterina Tudezheva
Full name	Ekaterina Nikolaevna Tudegeschewa
nation	Russia
birthday	30th October 1987 (age 32)
place of birth	Rostov-on-Don ,  Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom, snowboard cross
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 2 × Junior World Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × National championships 10 × 3 × 3 ×
Snowboard world championships gold 2007 Arosa Parallel giant slalom bronze 2009 Gangwon Parallel slalom gold 2013 Stoneham Parallel slalom bronze 2017 Sierra Nevada Parallel giant slalom  Snowboard Junior World Championships gold 2006 Vivaldi Park, South Korea Parallel giant slalom gold 2007 Bad Gastein Parallel giant slalom silver 2007 Bad Gastein Parallel slalom
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup January 25, 2003  World Cup victories 12  Overall World Cup 1. ( 2010/11 )  Parallel World Cup 1. ( 2010/11 )  PGS World Cup 2. ( 2015/16 )  PSL World Cup 1. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Parallel 12 8th 7th
last change: October 25, 2018

Jekaterina Nikolajewna Tudegeschewa ( Russian Екатерина Николаевна Тудегешева , scientific transliteration Ekaterina Nikolaevna Tudegeševa ; born October 30, 1987 in Rostov-on-Don ) is a Russian snowboarder .

Career

Tudegeschewa appeared internationally for the first time at the 2003 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . There she finished 37th in parallel slalom, 35th in parallel giant slalom and 16th in snowboard cross. She completed her first World Cup in January 2003 in Berchtesgaden , which she finished in 29th and 28th place in snowboard cross. In the 2004/05 season she came sixth in the parallel giant slalom in Maribor for the first time under the top ten in the World Cup. At the Snowboard World Championships 2005 in Whistler she was fourth in the parallel slalom.

In the following year, Tudegeschewa achieved fifth place in the parallel giant slalom in her first Olympic participation and won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboard Junior World Championships . After placing 23 and 11 at the beginning of the 2006/07 season , she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup in the parallel giant slalom in St. Vigil and won her first World Cup victory at the following World Cup in the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein . At the season highlight of the 2007 Snowboard World Championships in Arosa , she won the gold medal in the parallel giant slalom. She also achieved fifth place in the parallel slalom. This was followed by three top ten results in the World Cup and at the end of the season 11th place in the overall World Cup and seventh place in the Parallel World Cup. At the 2007 Snowboard Junior World Championships in Bad Gastein, she won silver in the parallel slalom and gold in the parallel giant slalom. In the following season she came in the top ten five times in the World Cup, including two second places and a third place, reaching 19th place in the overall World Cup and 11th place in the Parallel World Cup. Her best World Cup result in the 2008/09 season was fifth in the parallel giant slalom in Sudelfeld . At the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Gangwon she finished fifth in the parallel giant slalom and won the bronze medal in the parallel slalom. In the 2009/10 season she achieved top ten results in the World Cup. She won the parallel giant slalom in Nendaz and La Molina , and at the end of the season she finished eighth in the overall world cup and fifth in the parallel world cup. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was tenth in the parallel giant slalom.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Tudegeschewa won her fourth World Cup victory in the parallel slalom in Landgraaf . In the further course of the season she won the World Cup five times and also achieved second and third place once and thus won the parallel World Cup. At the season highlight of the 2011 Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, she achieved sixth place in the parallel giant slalom and fifth place in the parallel slalom. After finishing second in the parallel slalom in Landgraaf at the beginning of the following season, she came second in Jauerling and third in Sudelfeld. In the parallel giant slalom in Stoneham she won her tenth World Cup and at the end of the season she finished fifth in the Parallel World Cup. In the 2012/13 season she came in eight World Cup competitions, seven times in the top ten, including third place in Moscow and first place in Rogla . At the Snowboard World Championships 2013 in Stoneham , she won the gold medal in the parallel slalom and finished 11th in the parallel giant slalom. She finished the season in fifth place in the Parallel Slalom World Cup and fourth in both the Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup and the Parallel World Cup. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season she was third in the parallel giant slalom and second in the parallel slalom in Carezza . This was followed by three top ten placements and at the end of the season sixth place in the parallel giant slalom world cup, fourth place in the parallel world cup and third place in the parallel slalom world cup. At the season highlight, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she finished 16th in the parallel slalom and 15th in the parallel giant slalom.

In the following season Tudegeschewa reached her only top ten placement in the World Cup with eighth place in the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein. At the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg, she came ninth in the parallel giant slalom and eighth in the parallel slalom. After third place in the parallel giant slalom in Carezza at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she won her 12th World Cup victory in the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein and came third in the parallel giant slalom in Rogla. At the end of the season, she finished second in the Parallel World Cup, the Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup and the Parallel Slalom World Cup. In the 2016/17 season, with five top ten placements, she reached 13th place in the Parallel Slalom World Cup, 11th place in the Parallel World Cup and ninth place in the Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup. At the season highlight of the Snowboard World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada , she won the bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom and finished 11th in the parallel slalom.

In the 2017/18 season Tudegeschewa came in 12 World Cup starts, ten times in the top ten. In January 2018 she finished second behind the German Ramona Theresia Hofmeister at the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein. At the highlight of the season, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she finished 14th in the parallel giant slalom. At the end of the season she won the Parallel Slalom World Cup and came in sixth in the Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup and fifth in the Parallel World Cup.

Tudegeschewa became Russian champion in snowboard cross (2003, 2004, 2006), parallel slalom (2007, 2012, 2016) and parallel giant slalom (2005, 2007, 2012, 2016).

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 20, 2006	Bad Gastein	Parallel slalom
2.	January 17, 2010	Nendaz	Parallel giant slalom
3.	March 21, 2010	La Molina	Parallel giant slalom
4th	October 10, 2010	Landgraaf	Parallel slalom
5.	December 10, 2010	Lime Piemonte	Parallel giant slalom
6th	January 9, 2011	Bad Gastein	Parallel slalom
7th	February 20, 2011	Stoneham	Parallel giant slalom
8th.	March 5, 2011	Moscow	Parallel slalom
9.	March 19, 2011	Chiesa in Valmalenco	Parallel giant slalom
10.	February 22, 2012	Stoneham	Parallel giant slalom
11.	February 8, 2013	Rogla	Parallel giant slalom
12.	January 8, 2016	Bad Gastein	Parallel slalom

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2006 Turin : 5th parallel giant slalom
• 2010 Vancouver : 10th place parallel giant slalom
• 2014 Sochi : 15th place parallel giant slalom, 16th place parallel slalom
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 14th place parallel giant slalom

World championships

• 2003 Kreischberg : 16th place snowboard cross, 35th place parallel giant slalom, 37th place parallel slalom
• 2005 Whistler : 4th place in parallel slalom
• 2007 Arosa : 1st place in parallel giant slalom, 5th place in parallel slalom
• 2009 Gangwon : 3rd place in parallel slalom, 5th place in parallel giant slalom
• 2011 La Molina : 5th place in parallel slalom, 6th place in parallel giant slalom
• 2013 Stoneham : 1st place in parallel slalom, 11th place in parallel giant slalom
• 2015 Kreischberg : 8th place in parallel slalom, 9th place in parallel giant slalom
• 2017 Sierra Nevada : 3rd place parallel giant slalom, 11th place parallel slalom

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Parallel		Parallel giant slalom		Parallel slalom
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2003/04	37	23.	106	59.	-	-	-	-
2004/05	-	-	1141	30th	-	-	-	-
2005/06	1391	59.	1391	25th	-	-	-	-
2006/07	3530	11.	3530	7th	-	-	-	-
2007/08	3372	19th	3372	10.	-	-	-	-
2008/09	1434	43.	1434	19th	-	-	-	-
2009/10	3500	8th.	3500	5.	-	-	-	-
2010/11	-	-	7690	1.	-	-	-	-
2011/12	-	-	5070	5.	-	-	-	-
2012/13	-	-	3000	4th	2210	4th	1290	5.
2013/14	-	-	2540	4th	1160	6th	1380	3.
2014/15	-	-	1140	21st	560	19th	610	21st
2015/16	-	-	3720	2.	1700	2.	2020	2.
2016/17	-	-	2520	11.	1830	9.	690	13.
2017/18	-	-	4810	5.	3110	6th	1700	1.

Web links

• Yekaterina Nikolaevna Tudegeschewa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ekaterina Nikolajewna Tudegeschewa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography (russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Snowboarder Hofmeister takes first World Cup victory (January 12, 2018)