OlympicTalk · Dec 7, 2019
Ester Ledecka stuns again, wins World Cup downhill from bib No. 26
Consider 26 a lucky number for Ester Ledecka.
Ledecka, the snowboard champion who stunningly captured the PyeongChang Olympic super-G from bib No. 26, won her first World Cup ski race on Friday — also from bib No. 26.
Ledecka was fastest in a downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta.
She kept Swiss Corinne Suter from her first World Cup win by .35 of a second. Austrian Stephanie Venier was third. Mikaela Shiffrin was 10th in her weakest discipline. Full results are here.
Ledecky, an Olympic and world champion in Alpine snowboarding from the Czech Republic, had a previous best Alpine skiing World Cup finish of seventh. The top-ranked racers all go in the top 20 of the start list.