Lucia Medzihradská

Lucia Medzihradská

nation

Czechoslovakia Slovakia

birthday

November 14, 1968

place of birth

Brezno

Career

discipline

Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination

status

resigned

End of career

1995

Medal table

Junior World Championship

2 ×

1 ×

0 ×

Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold	Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986	Giant slalom
gold	Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986	combination
silver	Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986	slalom

Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Individual World Cup debut	1985
Overall World Cup	43rd ( 1987/88 )
Downhill World Cup	25. ( 1990/91 )
Super G World Cup	39th ( 1992/93 )
Slalom World Cup	33. ( 1986/87 )
Combination World Cup	7. (1987/88, 1990/91)

Lucia Medzihradská (born November 14, 1968 in Brezno ) is a former Czechoslovak and Slovak ski racer . She drove in all disciplines and was particularly successful in combinations .

biography

Internationally, Medzihradská made his first appearance at the 1986 Junior World Championship in Bad Kleinkirchheim . There she won the gold medal in the giant slalom and in the combined as well as the silver medal in the slalom . She won her first World Cup points on January 4th, 1987 with 12th place in the Maribor slalom . At the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana , she came in 10th place in the combination, at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary she was sixth in the same discipline.

As a result, Medzihradská could not improve further. The best results in the World Cup are two fifth places, each in combination scores. The only top ten classification in an individual race was achieved in 1991 with 7th place in the downhill from Méribel . At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , she finished 8th in the combination. In the 1994/95 season she ended her sports career.

Medzihradská studied cultural theory at the Comenius University in Bratislava and then emigrated to Australia . She now lives in Melbourne , where she works as a graphic designer.

successes

Olympic games

Calgary 1988 : 6th combination, 10th downhill, 13th slalom
Albertville 1992 : 8th combination, 16th downhill, 16th slalom, 20th giant slalom, 27th Super-G
Lillehammer 1994 : 20th slalom, 32nd slalom, 33rd Super-G

World championships

Crans-Montana 1987 : 10th combination, 11th slalom
Vail 1989 : 14th slalom
Morioka 1993 : 23rd slalom, 29th Super-G, 31st downhill

World cup

1987/88 season : 7th Combination World Cup
1990/91 season : 7th Combination World Cup
5 placements among the top ten

Junior World Championships

Jasná 1985 : 10th slalom, 11th giant slalom, 22nd descent
Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986 : 1st giant slalom, 1st combination, 2nd slalom, 5th descent

Web links

Lucia Medzihradská in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Lucia Medzihradská in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Lucia Medzihradská in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Lucia Medzihradská venovala SOV svoj obraz. (PDF) In: Olympijská revue. Slovak Olympic Committee, September 30, 2009, p. 29 , archived from the original on May 22, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 26, 2013 (Slovak).

personal data
SURNAME	Medzihradská, Lucia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Slovak ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brezno

[1] Lucia Medzihradská venovala SOV svoj obraz. (PDF) In: Olympijská revue. Slovak Olympic Committee, September 30, 2009, p. 29 , archived from the original on May 22, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 26, 2013 (Slovak).