Radoslav Židek

Radoslav Židek, born on 15 October 1981, is a Slovak snowboarder who competes in snowboard cross. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin he led most of the final, finished second behind the American Seth Wescott and won the silver medal, which made him the first Slovak to win a Winter Olympic medal and gave Slovakia its first Winter Olympic medal since independence in 1993. He was named Sportsperson of the Year in Slovakia for 2006. He finished 11th at the 2005 world championships and 17th in 2007, and had surgery on a knee ligament in his right knee in September 2008 and again in June 2009. In 2022 he was piloting a plane that crashed and caught fire in northern Slovakia, and he sustained burns to 30 percent of his body.