Kjetil Jansrud

Kjetil Jansrud ( born August 28, 1985 in Stavanger ) is a Norwegian ski racer. His greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in the Super- G at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. With the bronze medal in the downhill in 2014 and the silver medal in the giant slalom in 2010, he could win next two Olympic medals. He also won two medals at the World Junior Championships and in the season 2004/ 05 the overall standings in the European Cup.

Biography

Jansrud denied in December 2000, his first FIS races and one year later the first time in competitions in the European part. From the season 2002/ 03 Jansrud started regularly in the European Cup. The end of November he clinched third place, 25 in the first slalom in Levi his first points and the next day he reached the second slalom already the ninth. In the following year and a half he came but only two more times in the top ten, to him on 5 March 2004 in the Slalom in Pas de la Casa scored the first podium finish. The final breakthrough in the European Cup he succeeded in the season 2004/05. Jansrud won two slaloms and two giant slalom achieved six podiums and a total of 19 top- 10 finishes. He won the slalom and giant slalom standings and points equal to the Austrian Hannes Reichelt also the overall standings.

From 2002 to 2005 Jansrud participated in four World Junior Championships. In 2003, he missed a fourth in the combined score barely a medal, in 2004 he won second place in the giant slalom for the first time precious metal and in 2005 he won the combination another silver medal.

His first try in the World Cup had already Jansrud on 19 January 2003 at the slalom in Wengen. Since the 2003/ 04 season he starts regularly in the World Cup. However, he came into this winter only in the giant slalom in Flachau in the second round, where he won his first World Cup points than 29. In the season 2004/ 05 he was already four points and took 19th place in the giant slalom in Alta Badia for the first time in February 2005, he came at the World Championships in Bormio in slalom used, but dropped it in the first run in the top 20 of.

After his successes in the European Cup in the 2004/05 season the Norwegians next winter succeeded in the World Cup the following is the extended tip. In early December he reached the slalom of Beaver Creek fourth place and in January he came in slalom in Adelboden and in the super combined in Wengen again in the top ten. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 he reached the tenth position in the combination as the best Norwegian.

After Jansrud was sidelined due to injury in the season 2006/ 07, remained in winter 2007/ 08, 20th place in the slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim his best World Cup result. The next winter the Norwegians finally pulled one of the world leaders. Already at the start of the season he came in the giant slalom in Soelden back to eleventh place, in December he reached the fourth place in the giant slalom in Beaver Creek and on 10 February 2009, he was third in the giant slalom in Adelboden for the first time on the podium. With another top 10 place he reached the end of season ranked ninth in the giant slalom World Cup. In slalom, he stayed after a few failures without the World Cup points, but he was able to score the first time in the Super -G. Several failures he suffered at the World Championship in 2009 in Val d'Isere. In both the slalom and giant slalom, he left in the first passage and also in the super G, he did not come to the finish. Its only result was the ninth place in the combination.

At the start of the World Cup season 2009/10 Jansrud achieved two top 10 finishes in the giant slalom in Soelden and Beaver Creek. He also took on the challenging Birds of Prey piste in Beaver Creek for the first time in the downhill World Cup points. On 30 January 2010, he reached second place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora his hitherto best World Cup result, after he had occupied the previous day there at the first giant slalom in third place. This result was confirmed Jansrud at the Olympic Winter Games in 2010, where he won the silver medal in the giant slalom behind Carlo Janka. In the giant slalom World Cup, the Norwegians could improve to seventh in the overall World Cup he first came in the top 20 in the season 2010/2011 Jansrud further increased. With two second places in the giant slalom in Beaver Creek Hinterstoder and he reached the fourth place in the World Cup discipline. He also finished third in the Combined World Cup. In the World Cup he improved by four places to 13th place at the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen was Jansrud fifth in the giant slalom and tenth in the super combined, while he retired in Slalom and Super -G. In the years 2010 and 2011 he became Norwegian champion three times, twice in the giant slalom and one in the super-G.

In the World Cup Winter 2011/12 Jansrud improved significantly in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super -G. He showed solid performances and binned by the end of February ten times in the top ten (including two third places). In early March, he drove in the first Super -G and Downhill Kvitfjell turn twice on the podium, where he was beaten by only three and two hundredths of a second. On March 4, 2012 he finally scored the first World Cup victory, when he decided the second Super G Kvitfjell for themselves. In Super - G World Cup standings, he reached the fourth place in this winter. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Jansrud scored another podium finish in the downhill on Beaver Creek. At the World Championships in 2013, he retired from Super - G; later turned out that he had thereby suffered a cruciate ligament injury. Thus, the season was ended prematurely for him.

His comeback in the World Cup it was the end of November 2013 in Lake Louise. He could almost instantly connect to his former services and peaked in mid-December of 2013 with the second place in the downhill in Val Gardena the first podium after his injury. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 he was 2014 Olympic champion in super-G after winning the bronze medal in the downhill on February 16.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Turin 2006: 10 combination
  • Vancouver 2010: 2 Giant Slalom, Super Combined 9, 12, Super G, slalom 17, 31 departure
  • Sochi 2014: 1 Super -G, 3rd exit, 4 Super Combined

World Championships

  • Val d'Isere 2009: 9 Super Combined
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 5 Giant Slalom, Super Combined 10

Junior World Championships

  • Tarvisio 2002: 19 combination, 25 Slalom, 43 departure
  • Briançonnais 2003: 4 combination, 8 Giant Slalom, Slalom 12, 32 departure
  • Maribor 2004: 2 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 13, 57 departure
  • Bardonecchia 2005: 2 combination, 4th Slalom, 5 Super G, 9 Giant Slalom, Downhill 12

World Cup

  • Season 2008/ 09: 9 Giant Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2009/ 10: 7th World Cup giant slalom, 10th Combined World Cup
  • Season 2010/ 11: 3 Combined World Cup, 4 giant slalom World Cup
  • Season 2011/12: 8 Overall World Cup super- G World Cup 4, 7 Combined World Cup, 9 Giant Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2012/13: 8 Super - G World Cup 10 World Cup downhill
  • 14 podiums including 3 victories:

European Cup

  • Season 2004/ 05: Overall winner, 1 giant slalom standings, first slalom rating
  • 15 podiums, 5 wins

Other successes

  • 3 Norwegian championship titles ( 2010 and 2011 Giant Slalom, Super-G 2011)
  • 1 podium in Nor- Am Cup
  • 8 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Levi, Finland 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 Beaver Creek Resort 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup Birds of Prey (ski course) 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 Lake Louise (Alberta) Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup Franck Piccard Markus Wasmeier Hermann Maier
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