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Killington, December 1 (TASR) – Slovak skier Petra Vlhova ended up second on Sunday in a slalom event in Killington, the USA, finishing 2.29 seconds behind American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin while beating Sweden’s Anna Swenn-Larsson by 2.73 seconds. Vlhova thus marked her first podium appearance in this

Bratislava, November 12 (TASR) – The most successful Slovak female tennis player ever Dominika Cibulkova announced her retirement from professional tennis on Tuesday. Cibulkova, the tennis world champion from 2016, made the announcement at the presentation of her autobiography ‘Tenis je moj zivot’ (Tennis Is My Life) in Bratislava. “It was

Lonato, September 13 (TASR) – Slovak sports shooter Danka Bartekova won a gold medal in the women’s skeet at the 2019 European Shooting Championship Shotgun in Lonato, Italy, retaining her title from Leobersdorf, Austria in 2018. The 34-year-old Bartekova collected 56 points in the finals, beating by one hit the

Paris, July 29 (TASR) – Slovak cycling star Peter Sagan has once again shown that he has no competition in the fight for the green jersey on the Tour de France (TdF) and put on his seventh one in Paris on Sunday (July 28), overtaking the legendary German Erik Zabel by

Racice, July 13 (TASR) – Slovak athlete Mariana Petrusova won the gold medal in women’s U23 K1 1000 metres A final at the 2019 Junior and U23 Canoe Sprint European Championship in Racice, the Czech Republic, on Saturday. This is already the second medal that the nineteen-years-old canoeist has brought

Bratislava, April 13 (TASR) – Former ice hockey player and legendary coach Jan Starsi died at the age of 85 on Saturday after a long-term illness, spokesman for the Slovak Ice Hockey Association (SZLH) Peter Janosik has confirmed for TASR. Born on October 17, 1933 in the village of Sokolce (Zilina