Petra Mlejnková

Petra Mlejnková
Petra Mlejnková at the 2009 World Cup
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	September 26, 1988
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	Lyžák Junior Brno
status	not active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship 2 × 2 × 5 ×
Grass ski world championships bronze Dizin 2005 slalom  Grass ski junior world championships bronze Nové Město 2005 Giant slalom bronze Nové Město 2005 Super G silver Horní Lhota 2006 Super G bronze Horní Lhota 2006 Giant slalom bronze Welschnofen 2007 Super G bronze Welschnofen 2007 Super combo gold Vineyards 2008 slalom gold Vineyards 2008 Giant slalom silver Vineyards 2008 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2003  World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2006 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 0 3 0  Giant slalom 0 3 4th  Super G 0 1 2  combination 1 0 1  Super combination 0 0 2
last change: October 22, 2012

Petra Mlejnková (born September 26, 1988 ) is a Czech grass skier . She is a member of the Czech national grass ski team, has won a world cup race so far and was junior world champion in slalom and giant slalom in 2008 .

Career

Mlejnková started grass skiing in 1999, and in June 2003 she took part in her first FIS race . Her first major event was the Junior World Championship in Goldingen in July 2003, but she could not yet keep up with the more experienced runners. She was second to last in sixth place in the Super-G and last in sixth place in the combination and seventh in slalom. Her only World Cup points in the 2003 season she won in the slalom of Nové Město na Moravě , where she finished eleventh and penultimate place. In the 2004 season, the Czech was among the top ten in two World Cup races and thus came twelfth in the overall ranking. At the Junior World Championships in Rettenbach , she was sixth in the Super-G and eighth in the giant slalom.

With her first and so far only World Cup victory in the combination of Forni di Sopra on July 17, 2005 and another four top 5 placements, Mlejnková secured fourth place overall in the 2005 season . At the Junior World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě , she won two bronze medals in giant slalom and super-G, in slalom and in the combination, she was sixth each. Mlejnková also won a medal at her first world championship in the general class. In Dizin , Iran , she came third in the slalom behind the Swiss Nadja Vogel and the German Anna-Lena Büdenbender . In the Super-G she finished seventh, which brought her to fourth place in the combination and she finished the giant slalom in fifth position.

In the 2006 World Cup season, Mlejnková achieved third place overall with four podium places and thus her best result in the overall World Cup so far. At the Junior World Championships 2006 in Horní Lhota u Ostravy she was second in the Super-G and third in the giant slalom. She achieved five podium places in the 2007 World Cup season , but in the overall standings she dropped two places to fifth. As in the previous two years, the Czech won two medals at the 2007 Junior World Championships . She came third in the Super G and Super Combined and sixth in the giant slalom. At the 2007 World Championships in Olešnice v Orlických horách she reached fifth place in the slalom and giant slalom as well as tenth in the super combined and eleventh in the super G.

Mlejnková achieved another five World Cup podiums in the 2008 season . As in the previous year, she finished fifth overall. The then 19-year-old celebrated great successes at the 2008 Junior World Championship in Rieden . In the slalom and in the giant slalom she won the gold medal in front of the Austrian Jacqueline Gerlach and in the Super-G she came second behind Gerlach. However, she couldn't finish the super combination. In the 2009 World Cup season , Mlejnková showed less good performances than in previous years and for the first time since 2004 did not finish on the podium in any race. Her best results were two fifth places in the giant slalom and in the super combination of Forni di Sopra, which is why she fell back to eighth place in the overall World Cup. At the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach, she was sixth in the super combined and seventh in slalom, giant slalom and super-G.

At the beginning of the 2010 World Cup season , the Czech was back on the podium with third place in the giant slalom in Čenkovice . After that, however, she only took part again in the final races in Italy, where she achieved another podium finish with second place in the Sestriere slalom . She finished the overall World Cup in ninth position. In 2011 Mlejnková did not take part in any international competitions, but only in races of the Czech Cup. In 2012 she did not start in the Czech Cup either.

successes

World championships

• Dizin 2005 : 3rd slalom, 4th combination, 5th giant slalom, 7th super-G
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 5th slalom, 5th giant slalom, 10th super combined, 11th super G
• Rettenbach 2009 : 6th super combination, 7th slalom, 7th giant slalom, 7th super G

Junior World Championships

• Goldingen 2003 : 6th Super-G, 6th combination, 7th slalom
• Rettenbach 2004 : 6th Super-G, 8th giant slalom
• Nové Město na Moravě 2005 : 3rd giant slalom, 3rd super-G, 6th slalom, 6th combination
• Horní Lhota u Ostravy 2006 : 2nd Super-G, 3rd giant slalom
• Welschnofen 2007 : 3rd super G, 3rd super combination, 6th giant slalom
• Rieden 2008 : 1st slalom, 1st giant slalom, 2nd Super-G

World cup

• 3rd overall: 2006
• 4th overall: 2005
• 5th overall: 2007 and 2008
• One win and another 16 podiums

Web links

Commons : Petra Mlejnková  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petra Mlejnková in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004