The 24-year-old snowboarder and skier from the Czech Republic stormed to victory in a downhill at Lake Louise, Canada for her first snowboarding victory since Pyeongchang in 2018.
On the Olympics, Ledecka pulled off a surprise victory within the super-G snowboarding match earlier than clinching gold in her favoured skiing parallel massive slalom to change into the primary athlete to win gold in two other disciplines on the similar Video games.
In scenes paying homage to her Olympic super-G victory, Ledecka set the quickest time from beginning quantity 26 and stunned even herself to look the primary position posted at the scoreboard. She beat Swiss Corinne Suter by way of zero.35 seconds with Austrian Stephanie Venier 3rd in Canada.
“I used to be slightly bit considering it was once some mistake, however it is OK. I am perhaps being used to it,” Ledecka stated.
Ledecka’s earlier very best lead to a International Cup downhill was once 7th in Lake Louise in 2017. She completed 24th in remaining season’s International Cup downhill standings and 28th in super-G.
Ledecka has received 17 snowboard International Cup races and clinched seven season titles.
American megastar Mikaela Shiffrin completed 10th in Lake Louise as she chases a 63rd profession International Cup win.
Slalom specialist Shiffrin is tied with Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell in fourth at the all-time checklist of winners in the back of the retired trio of Marcel Hirscher (67), Lindsey Vonn (82) and Ingemar Stenmark (86).