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Annamari Dancha

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Annamari Dancha
Dancha in 2012
Personal information
Full nameДанча Аннамарі Михайлівна
NationalityUkrainian
Born (1990-03-26) 26 March 1990 (age 34)
Onokivtsi, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast,
Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
CountryUkraine
SportSnowboarding
Event(s)Parallel slalom, parallel giant slalom
Club"Spartak" (Uzhhorod)
Medal record
Women's snowboarding
Representing  Ukraine
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Utah Parallel slalom
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Otago Parallel GS
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2011 Erzurum Parallel GS
Silver medal – second place 2017 Almaty Parallel GS

Annamari Dancha (née Annamari Chundak; Ukrainian: Данча Аннамарі Михайлівна; born 26 March 1990 in Onokivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian snowboarder, specializing in alpine snowboarding.[1] She is silver medalist of the 2019 World championships in parallel slalom.[2] She competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics for Ukraine.

Career

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Annamari Chundak made her World Cup debut in October 2006. Until 2010 Winter Olympics, she managed to qualify for the knockout stage only once – on 6 February 2010, in German Sudelfeld, where she was 14th. She competed at the 2007 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Spanish Jaca, where she was 4th in giant slalom and 6th in parallel giant slalom.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she surprisingly qualified 16th in the parallel giant slalom, but lost in the round of 16 to Marion Kreiner, finishing 16th. Later that year, she became junior world champion in the parallel giant slalom in Snow Park, New Zealand. She is also a two-time silver medalist of Winter Universiades in parallel giant slalom: in 2011 in Turkish Erzurum and 2017 in Kazakh Almaty. At the 2013 Winter Universiade, she achieved 7th rank in the parallel giant slalom competition.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she was 21st in the qualifying run of the parallel giant slalom and 21st in the parallel slalom, not advancing in either event.[3][4]

In January 2015, she married and took a two-year pause in competing.[5]

Before the 2022 Winter Games, her best finish was 8th in a parallel giant slalom in Bulgarian Bansko in the 2017–18 season. That season was quite successful for her: 1 finish in Top-8 and four more finishes in Top-16.[1] She qualified to represent Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.[6] In parallel giant slalom, she finished 28th which was last place due to her disastrous first run.

In February 2019, she ranked 6th in the parallel giant slalom event at the World Championships which was the best ever result for Ukraine at snowboarding competitions of the highest level. But the next day, she surprised everybody by winning a silver medal in parallel slalom, which was the first-ever medal for Ukraine at international snowboard competitions of the highest level. She was just 15th in the qualifying round after finishing 21st on the blue course and 8th on the red course. In the first round, she won against #2 of the qualification Cheyenne Loch from Germany. Later on, Dancha won against Polish Aleksandra Król and 2018 Winter Olympics bronze medalist German Ramona Theresia Hofmeister. In the final, she lost to Julie Zogg from Switzerland, thus winning the silver medal.[7] Interesting fact that these athletes met each other in the final for the second time. Nine years ago, Dancha (Chundak back then) won against Zogg in the final of the parallel giant slalom at the Junior World Championships.

As of January 2022, her best World Cup finish was 5th in the parallel giant slalom on January 11, 2020, in Swiss Scuol.

In 2022, Dancha was nominated for her fourth Winter Games in Beijing.[8]

Career results

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Winter Olympics

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Year Place PGS PSL
2010 Canada Vancouver, Canada 16
2014 Russia Sochi, Russia 21 21
2018 South Korea Pyeongchang, South Korea 28
2022 China Beijing, China 26

World Championships

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Year Place PGS PSL
2007 Switzerland Arosa, Switzerland 51 46
2009 South Korea Gangwon, South Korea 25 15
2011 Spain La Molina, Spain 17 15
2013 Canada Stoneham, Canada 25 31
2017 Spain Sierra Nevada, Spain 32 17
2019 United States Utah, United States 6 2
2021 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia 26 19

World Cup

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Rankings

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Season PAR PGS PSL Overall
2006–07 67 - - 144
2007–08 43 - - 111
2008–09 37 - - 108
2009–10 32 - - 77
2010–11 22 - - -
2011–12 28 - - -
2012–13 27 28 17 -
2013–14 31 28 33 -
2014–15 missed
2015–16 missed
2016–17 36 34 32 -
2017–18 21 20 20 -
2018–19 27 26 29 -
2019–20 18 16 22 -
2020–21 27 29 23 -

European Cup

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Podiums

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Season Place Event Rank
2008–09 France Isola 2000, France PGS 1
2009–10 Slovakia Vrátna, Slovakia PGS 3
Austria Kasberg, Austria PGS 3
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine PSL 1
Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine PSL 3
2011–12 Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine PSL 1
2012–13 Italy Ratschings, Italy PSL 2
2020–21 Switzerland Lenzerheide, Switzerland PSL 1
Switzerland Lenzerheide, Switzerland PSL 3
2021–22 Ukraine Bukovel, Ukraine PGS 1

Nor-Am Cup

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Podiums

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Season Place Event Rank
2019–20 Canada Blue Mountain, Canada PSL 3

Personal life

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She studied at the Uzhhorod National University. She is married and has a daughter.[9] She speaks English and Hungarian.

References

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  1. ^ a b FIS Profile
  2. ^ Ukrainian Dancha won the first ever World snowboard medal for Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
  3. ^ "Sports Reference Profile". Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  4. ^ "Sochi2014.com profile". 19 March 2014. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Лучшая сноубордистка Украины Аннамари Чундак вышла замуж".
  6. ^ "Олімпіада-2018. Хто є хто в збірній України".
  7. ^ Video of the 2018 WCH final run Dancha vs. Zogg
  8. ^ "Official list of Ukrainian delegation at the 2022 Winter Games was published". Suspilne. January 21, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  9. ^ "Ukrainian snowboarder: I started trainings four mounths after delivery". ua-football.com. February 6, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
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