In addition, he has several valuable successes on his account, but their expansion is currently complicated by rehabilitation after two knee operations. On Friday, June 13, she celebrates 30 years and she would like to continue her career after healing.
She was born on June 13, 1995 in Liptovský Mikuláš, her parents Zuzana and Igor also have a son Boris. He was the leader of her team Ski Team Vlha for many years. The talent was visible, her daughter was visible, her career was launched in the LK Liptovský Mikuláš club. Her first coach was Ján Garaj, under his leadership she also experienced her first success. Later she became a member of the club Ski Club Javorica Liptovský Ján, where it was trained by Tomáš Hudec.
During this period, she achieved her first great success when she became a winner of the women’s slalom at the Youth Winter Olympic Games as a 16 -year -old in Innsbruck. She struck her premiere in the World Cup race in 2012, when she took 11th place in Semmering in Semmering as a 17-year-old. In the same race, her countryman Veronika Velez-Zuzulová secured the triumph.
Two years later, she scored another significant success when she won the title of junior world champion. It happened on her home slope in Jasna. In 2015 she won her premiere triumph in the SP and succeeded in Are, Sweden. Since then, she gained increasing attention, and later she overcame her big rival Mikael Shiffrin by 0.24 hundredths of a second.
The Slovak national team improved with every race and her extremely successful year 2019 completed the title of World Champion in a huge slalom in the Are. In the 2020/21 season she won a large crystal globe, That is, the most valuable trophy for skiers in SP. She became the first Slovak with this trophy. She achieved this success after scoring the necessary points in Slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. She won a gold medal in Slalom next year at the Beijing Olympics. After the first round she was on the 8th place, but she proved a brilliant ride in the second round that she was one of the ski stars.
However, Vlhová and her fans are waiting for further significant successes. At home races in a huge slalom in Jasna 20 January 2024 fell and had to undergo surgery. After subsequent rehabilitation, her condition did not improve enough to race again and so underwent a medical procedure for the second time.
Currently, it is treated and rehabilitated after missing the whole season. “If I can stand at the start, it will be just a bonus, because the knee was not in the best shape. I thought I would do everything to return to the skis and believe that I will stand at the start,“ She said at a recent event for her sponsor.
Vlhová has 31 victories in the SP, of which 22 in slalom, 6 in a huge slalom and 3 in parallel slalom. She stood on the stage 73 times, three times she won a small globe for the evaluation of discipline (2020 slalom and parallel slalom and 2022 slalom). However, he has other awards. She is the holder of the commemorative medal of the Minister of Defense of the Slovak Republic, and last year she received a number of Ľudovít Štúr I class. It is also a four -time winner of the Athlete of the Year poll in Slovakia.
