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She who can be considered the greatest skier from the Czech Republic territory dell''attuale of all time, Šárka Záhrobská in recent years known by her married name, ie Sarka Strachová, has announced his retirement from racing.
Tuesday 28 March 2017 6 minutes reading time
The 32 year-old Czech broke the news at a press conference at the Tennis Club Sparta Prague: "I knew that Aspen was not only my last race of the season but my last race of his career and I'm surprised by the emotions it aroused me . Why stop at one year from the Olympics? It is not a question of motivation, just do not feel like continuing, I have other goals I want to achieve. The Olympics have a strong attraction for me but I won bronze in Vancouver. The podium of Squaw Valley gave me the certainty that it was the right time to retire. As a skier I gave everything and already last year, though I was back at high levels, I struggled to give priority to skiing. "
Born on 11 February 1985 in Benecko Šárka Záhrobská Strachová was primarily a slalom skier but in his best years did points in the World Cup in all specialties except downhill. His debut was in the World Cup with a bang as he was fifth in the slalom at Sestriere ko of 15 December 2002. At the World Juniors was bronze in slalom and combined in 2004 and gold in slalom in 2005, two weeks after winning his first podium in the Great skiing by winning the world championship bronze in Santa Caterina. Sarka was woman from major events: after the bronze won three more World Championship medals: was world champion in slalom in Åre in 2007, silver in Val d'Isere in 2009 and bronze in Vail / Beaver Creek in 2015. In St . Moritz just over a month ago he played his ninth consecutive world finishing fifth through the narrow doors. Over three Olympics took home a bronze medal in Vancouver in 2010, of course, always in slalom.
In the World Cup has participated in 236 races, collecting 17 podiums, all in slalom, the first on January 4, 2007 in Zagreb, the last on 11 March in Squaw Valley when he was second. A week later she was eighth in his last race in Aspen, just the place where came his only two wins in the Cup, November 30, 2008 and November 29, 2009. After those wins and after the Olympic bronze medalist spent two seasons of deep technical crisis, but the blow that could end his career came in the summer of 2012 when he was operated on for a brain tumor, fortunately benign. His recovery was miraculous enough to be present at the World Championships in Schladming in 2013 where he was thirty-seventh in giant and eighth in slalom giving off the second part of his career, that of slow recovery and a return to the top, where surely the marriage ( from 2013-2014 he competed as Sarka Strachová) helped.
Before the operation had risen nine times on the podium in the Cup, he returned December 29, 2014 when he was second in Kühtai and then he racked up seven others, this time without a win. In the ranking of the slalom cup it was second in 2009 and third in 2007, when he picked up his only top ten placement in the overall standings, a ninth place. Between 2004 and 2015 he won three giant slaloms and two in Europe and three other podiums Cup through the narrow doors, the last year in Bad Wiessee where she was second. always friendly and helpful girl, remained un'antidiva despite a respectable palmares. He will be missed by all the circus Rosa.
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