Eva Samková


Eva Samková is a Czech snowboarder who is the 2014 Olympic champion in snowboard cross.

Career

Samková initially competed in freestyle snowboarding but after several injuries she began competing in snowboard cross in the 2008/2009 season. Her trainers are Marek Jelínek and Jakub Flejšar. Her signature in competitions is a moustache drawn on her upper lip.
Samková won the Junior World Championship three times and the Czech national title in 2013. She also won three races of the World Cup series. After skipping the 2011/2012 season due to knee injury, she was placed 4th in the FIS Snowboard World Cup series in the 2012/2013 season and in December 2013 she won the Winter Universiade.
She won a gold medal in snowboard cross for the Czech Republic at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Samková attracted additional comment because she participated in the quarter-final, semi-final and final races with a moustache drawn on her face. She said it was for luck. In the same year Samková was second at the Winter X Games in Aspen.
Samková has her own show called Eva tropí hlouposti named in reference to famous Czech comedy film by Martin Frič.

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation.

Season titles

Season Discipline
2017Snowboard Cross
2019Snowboard Cross

Season standings

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2010–1118 March 2011 Valmalenco, Italy Snowboard Cross 2nd
2012–132 February 2013 Blue Mountain, CanadaSnowboard Cross1st
2012–1316 March 2013 Veysonnaz, SwitzerlandSnowboard Cross3rd
2013–147 December 2013 Montafon, AustriaSnowboard Cross1st
2013–1412 January 2014 Vallnord-Arcalís, AndorraSnowboard Cross1st
2015–1623 January 2015 Feldberg, GermanySnowboard Cross1st
2015–1621 February 2016 Sunny Valley, RussiaSnowboard Cross1st
2015–1627 February 2016 Bogwang, South KoreaSnowboard Cross3rd
2015–165 March 2016 Veysonnaz, SwitzerlandSnowboard Cross3rd
2015–1620 March 2016 Baqueira Beret, SpainSnowboard Cross2nd
2016–1721 January 2017 Solitude, USASnowboard Cross1st
2016–174 February 2017 Bansko, BulgariaSnowboard Cross2nd
2016–1712 February 2017 Feldberg, GermanySnowboard Cross1st
2016–1725 March 2017 Veysonnaz, SwitzerlandSnowboard Cross2nd
2017–1820 January 2018 Erzurum, TurkeySnowboard Cross1st
2017–183 March 2018 La Molina, SpainSnowboard Cross1st
2017–1810 March 2018 Moscow, RussiaSnowboard Cross1st
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Olympic results

World Championships results