Lucas Eguibar

Lucas Eguibar

Medal record
Men's snowboarding
Representing  Spain
World Championships
	2017 Sierra Nevada	Snowboard cross
	2017 Sierra Nevada	Snowboard team cross
Junior World Championships
	2013 Erzurum	Snowboard cross
	2014 Valmalenco	Snowboard cross

Lucas Eguibar Bretón (born February 9, 1994) is a Spanish snowboarder.

Career

He won the Europa Cup in season 2011/2012. In 2013 he won a gold medal at the 2013 FIS Junior World Championships in Erzurum, Turkey.

His first world cup podium was in Arosa, Switzerland on March 9, 2013.^[1] He made another podium at the world cup, finishing in 2nd position in Vallnord-Arcalís, Andorra on January 12, 2014. His first World Cup victory was in Veysonnaz, Switzerland on March 14, 2015, becoming the first Spanish snowboarder to win a snowboard world cup event. He has 2 world cup victories, and 8 podiums, at the time.

He won the 2014-15 FIS Snowboard cross World Cup, becoming the first spanish snowboarder that win a Cristal Globe. He finished third un the next season.

Lucas competed in his first Olympic Winter Games in 2014. He won all his races except semifinal, where he fell and he was disqualified by missing a gate. Eguibar won small final and finished 7th in his very first Olympics.

World Cup podiums

Individual events

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2013	9 Mar 2013	Arosa, Switzerland	Snowboard cross	3rd
2014	12 Jan 2014	Vallnord-Arcalís, Andorra	Snowboard cross	2nd
2015	14 Mar 2015	Veysonnaz, Switzerland	Snowboard cross	1st
	15 Mar 2015		Snowboard cross	2nd
2016	21 Feb 2016	Sunny Valley, Russia	Snowboard cross	3rd
	6 Mar 2016	Veysonnaz, Switzerland	Snowboard cross	1st
	20 Mar 2016	Baqueira-Beret, Spain	Snowboard cross	3rd
2017	11 Feb 2017	Feldberg, Germany	Snowboard cross	2nd

Team events

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2017	18 Dec 2016	Montafon, Austria	Snowboard cross team	1st

Olympic results

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2014	18 Feb 2014	Sochi, Rusia	Snowboard cross	7th

References