Annamari Dancha (née Annamari Chundak; uk, Данча Аннамарі Михайлівна; born 26 March 1990 in

Onokivtsi Onokivtsi ( uk, Оноківці; hu, Felsődomonya) is a village in Uzhhorod Raion (raion, district) of Zakarpattia Oblast (oblast, province) in western Ukraine. The village's population is 2,187. The village belonged in the 14th-17th centuries ...

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) is a Ukrainian

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, specializing in alpine snowboarding.FIS Profile
/ref> She is silver medalist of the 2019 World championships in parallel slalom. She competed at the 2010,

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and

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for Ukraine.

Career

Annamari Chundak made her

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debut in October 2006. Until

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, 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

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in Spanish

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, where she was 4th in giant slalom and 6th in parallel giant slalom. At the

, she surprisingly qualified 16th in the

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, but lost in the round of 16 to

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, finishing 16th. Later that year, she became junior world champion in the parallel giant slalom in Snow Park,

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. She is also a two-time silver medalist of

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s in parallel giant slalom: in 2011 in Turkish

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and

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in Kazakh Almaty. At the

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, she achieved 7th rank in the parallel giant slalom competition. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, she was 21st in the qualifying run of the

and 21st in the

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, not advancing in either event. In January 2015, she married and took a two-year pause in competing. Before the 2022 Winter Games, her best finish was 8th in a parallel giant slalom in

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in the 2017–18 season. That season was quite successful for her: 1 finish in Top-8 and four more finishes in Top-16. She qualified to represent Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. In

, 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

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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

, 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

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and 2018 Winter Olympics

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German Ramona Theresia Hofmeister. In the final, she lost to Julie Zogg from Switzerland, thus winning the silver medal. 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

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. In 2022, Dancha was nominated for her fourth

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Career results

Winter Olympics

World Championships

World Cup

Rankings

European Cup

Podiums

Nor-Am Cup

Podiums

Personal life

She studied at the

Uzhhorod National University Uzhhorod National University ( uk, Ужгородський національний університет) (full name - State University "Uzhhorod National University") is a Ukrainian state higher educational institution in the city of Uzhhorod ...

. She is married and has a daughter. She speaks

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and Hungarian.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dancha, Annamari 1990 births Living people Olympic snowboarders for Ukraine Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Ukrainian female snowboarders Winter World University Games medalists in snowboarding FISU World University Games silver medalists for Ukraine Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade Sportspeople from Zakarpattia Oblast