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Dutch-Czech alpine ski racer (born 1995) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adriana Jelinkova (born Jelínková, 10 April 1995) is an alpine ski racer who specialises in the technical events of giant slalom and slalom. Originally represented the Netherlands at her debut for the 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup, she changed her nationality to Czech Republic in May 2022.[1]
Jelinkova in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth name | Adriana Jelínková | ||
| Born | 10 April 1995 Brno, Czech Republic | ||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||
| Sport | |||
| Country |  Netherlands (until 2021/22)  Czech Republic (2022/23–present) | ||
| Skiing career | |||
| Disciplines | Giant slalom, slalom | ||
| Club | Snowsports Academy Racing and Skiclub Bad Gastein | ||
| World Cup debut |
| ||
| Website | https://adrianajelinkova.com | ||
| Olympics | |||
| Teams | 2022 | ||
| World Championships | |||
| Teams | 4 – (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) | ||
| Medals | 0 | ||
Jelinkova was born in the Czech Republic, but grew up with her family in the Netherlands and stayed there until 11 years old. Afterwards, Jelinkova moved to Austria, where she completed the second grade of elementary school at the ski school in Bad Gastein and subsequently graduated from the ski gymnasium in Saalfelden. Jelinkova is multilingual, able to speak Czech, Dutch, German, and English.[2]
Jelinkova made her World Cup debut on 16 December 2012 in the Courchevel giant slalom, but she failed to finish the first run.[3] She competed for the Netherlands at the 2013 Alpine World Ski Championships in Schladming, Austria. She finished 40th in the giant slalom.[4] She competed at the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek, United States. She did not start the first run of the slalom.[5] She competed at the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland. She finished 36th in the giant slalom and 30th in the slalom.[6][7] She competed at the 2019 Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre, Sweden. She finished 33rd in the giant slalom and 19th in the slalom.[8][9]
| Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Location | Place | ||||||
| Slalom | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Giant slalom | 46 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 January 2021 |  Kranjska Gora | 11th |
| Combined | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 January 2018 |  Lenzerheide | 27th |
| Parallel | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 November 2020 |  Zürs | 10th |
| Parallel slalom | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 December 2017 |  Courchevel | 25th |
| Total | 80 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel | |
| 2013 | 17 | — | 40 | — | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 19 | DNS1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | 30 | 36 | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | 19 | 33 | — | — | — | — |
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