Eva Adamczyková

Eva Adamczyková, née Samková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛvaˈadamt͡ʃɪkovaː]; born 28 April 1993) is a Czech snowboarder who is the 2014 Olympic champion in snowboard cross. She is also the 2019 and 2023 World Champion in the same discipline.

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 (2010, 2011, 2013) and the Czech national title in 2013. She also won three races of the World Cup series (Blue Mountain and Montafon 2013, Vallnord-Arcalís 2014). 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.

Samková took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she won the Czech Republic's first gold medal of the games, in snowboard cross. Samková attracted additional comment because she participated in the quarter-final, semi-final and final races with a moustache drawn on her face, which she said was for luck. In the same year Samková placed second at the Winter X Games in Aspen.

At the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2019, Samková became world champion in Snowboard Cross, defeating Brit Charlotte Bankes in the final. Two years later at the 2021 World Championships, Samková took bronze behind Bankes and Michela Moioli. On 11 December 2021, Samková broke both ankles, when she and Czech compatriot Jan Kubičík took silver in the mixed race during a 2021–22 World Cup event in Montafon, Austria. After fourteen months recovery from injury Adamczyková won in her first past-injury races at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2023 and claimed her second world championships gold medal.

At the 2026 Winter Olympics she won the silver medal.

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Season titles

• 3 titles – (3 snowboard cross)

Season standings

Race podiums

• 19 wins – (19 SBX)
• 33 podiums – (33 SBX)

Olympic results

World Championships results

Personal life

Samková had her own show called Eva tropí hlouposti (Eva Fools Around) named in reference to famous Czech comedy film by Martin Frič.

On 15 September 2022, Samková married Czech actor Marek Adamczyk[cs]. In 2023, the couple was invited to join the 12th season of Czech dancing reality TV show StarDance. She competed with her professional partner Jakub Mazůch and placed on the 2nd place, while her husband placed 6th.

On 16 February 2024 in Archa Theatre, Prague premiered documentary about Adamczyková named EFKA: Nejrychlejší holka ve vesmíru (EFKA: Quickest girl in the universe) directed by Markus Krug.

On 26 June 2024, Adamczyková announced on Instagram her pregnancy and pause in her career. On 13 January 2025, Adamczyková announced the birth of her son Kryštof.

External links

• at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• at Milano Cortina 2026
• at Olympics.com
• at Olympedia
• at InterSportStats
• at the X Games (archived)
• at Olympijskytym.cz (in Czech)