Matěj Švancer
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Matěj Švancer (; born 26 March 2004) is a Czech-Austrian
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and
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. After great successes at the junior level, including a gold medal at the Winter Youth Olympics and two junior world championship titles, he started for Austria in the 2021–22 season.


Career

In 2020, Švancer won Gold (Big Air) at the Winter Youth Olympics at
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. On 3 November 2019, Švancer made his debut in the
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. After further starts in Deštné and
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, he achieved his first top result in 2021 with sixth place in
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. After his naturalization in March 2020, the switch from the Czech Republic to Austria was approved by the FIS in June 2021 and he was accepted into the Austrian squad. On 22 October 2021, he beat Canadian
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at the big air in
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with 99.0 points and thus celebrated his first World Cup victory. Six weeks later he also won the second and final Big Air World Cup of the season in
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* * * * * * * 2004 births Living people Skiers from Prague Austrian male freestyle skiers Czech male freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers for Austria Youth Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic Czech emigrants to Austria X Games competitors 21st-century Austrian sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub