Jakub Janda
Jakub Janda (born 27 April 1978 Čeladná, Okres Frýdek- Místek ) is a Czech ski jumper.
- 2.1 World Cup wins
- 2.2 World Cup rankings
- 2.3 Grand Prix wins
- 2.4 Grand Prix rankings
Career
Early years (1996 to 2004)
Janda, who is a qualified PE teacher, announced on March 9, 1996 his debut in the World Cup Ski Jumping. When ski flying in Harrachov he remained with rank 44 still far behind the points. But two jumping in Lahti later he won with 29 rank first World Cup points. For the 1997/98 season he was able to increase its performance and reached in January in Innsbruck for the first time a place among the top twenty. Janda but could not produce constant these services. In the Ski Flying World Championships 1998 in Oberstdorf, he flew on the 28th place. The 21st place in the following Ski Flying World Cup was his last points finish of the season. In the following season 1998/99 he dropped out in the first competition after only one passage. However, in Lillehammer he could jump surprising 13th place back in the top. After another mediocre rankings in the next World Cup Jumping Janda started at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein. With space 48 from the wholesale and number 33, it remained below expectations. Also in the ski flying World Cup in Planica he was unsuccessful.
The 1999/2000 season started Janda successfully with a dot gain in Kuopio. But this season he remained without lasting success. At the end they only managed a total of eight World Cup points and 70th place in the overall standings. In the Ski Flying World Championships 2000 in Vikersund he flew to rank 31 Even in summer he tried his luck for the third time in the ski jumping Grand Prix but could except in Hinterzarten score with no jumping. The World Cup season 2000/ 01 he began as he finished last season. Until February 2001, he won at no jumping points and often landed only on the last places. Only in Willingen he succeeded in both jumping again the leap into the top 30 In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti, he started in all four competitions. In the individual competitions, it was enough for him to 17th place and 27th place in the team competitions, he reached together with Jakub Hlava, Michal Dolezal and Jaroslav Sakala the sixth and seventh places. End of the season with him in seventh place in Trondheim, Norway achieved a top 10 ranking before he finished the season in 35th place in the World Cup overall standings.
In the summer of 2011, he could jump in his career consistently in all ski jumping Grand Prix competitions in the points for the first time. The 2001/02 season began Janda in Ski Jumping Continental Cup, where he finished seventh and eleven reached in Kuusamo. The next World Cup Jumping ran changeable. Although Janda was mainly gain points, but had to retire in Salt Lake City on the Średnia Krokiew in Zakopane after the first passage in the last World Cup before the 2002 Winter Olympics.
At the Olympic Games Janda could not convince. In the individual events, it was enough just to places 39 and 44 In the team competition, the Czech team led by Janda with the 12th place fell far short of expectations. When three weeks later held Ski Flying World Championships 2002 in Harrachov, it was enough with space 48 not again for a second round and top rankings. After only three competitions he went in the summer of 2002 at the start and it only won in Hinterzarten points, he started behaving in the new season 2002/ 03. After the first jump of Titisee -Neustadt was already after passing one end, he jumped in the second event on the 25th place. On 11 January 2003, he reached the third place on his home hill in Liberec first time in its current seven year career podium in the World Cup. However, he could not maintain this level. So there was only the 14th place on the normal hill and 25th place on the large hill and in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme. On the same ski jump he jumped in the summer with the fourth place just missed the podium.
After a mixed season 2003/ 04, which he finished in 39th place overall, he reached at the Ski Flying World Championships 2004 in Planica number 35 in singles and ninth place with the team.
International breakthrough 2004/ 05
Janda his international breakthrough in the season 2004/05. When jumping in Harrachov 2004, he was after the first passage in the first place, but was intercepted or of Janne Ahonen and Roar Ljøkelsøy in the second round and so it fared in the two competitions in Engelberg, Switzerland.
In January 2005, he was in Titisee- Neustadt, the first win was in the World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf on 19 February 2005, he won silver in the normal hill individual competition and also bronze on the large hill.
In the season 2005/ 06 he won the competition in Kuusamo, Lillehammer, Harrachov, Engelberg and Garmisch -Partenkirchen. In addition, he was tied triumph together with Janne Ahonen in the Four Hills Tournament, making it the first Czech winner since Jiří Raška tour 35 years ago. Finally, Janda won the Overall World Cup 2005/06. He is the first Czech who could win this.
At the Olympic Winter Games in 2006 Janda achieved positions 10 and 13 in the individual disciplines and ninth place with the team. So that he could again win any medal at the Olympic Games, despite the success in the 2005 World Championship and the World Cup. However, in the first individual World Cup after the Games in Lahti he could jump again on the podium and finished second.
Drop in performance and reboot
In the summer of 2006 and in the 2006/07 season had Janda struggling with a huge performance hit. So he rarely jumped into the top. Podium or victory failed to materialize in the World Cup. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo, Japan he did not also have a 18 and a 20 square. For the first time jumped back into the world top Janda on 13 March 2007 when he ranks just missed the podium at the season end with the fourth rank in Kuopio. After he again failed to launch successfully in the individual competitions over the summer, he started from the 2007/ 08 season as a permanent member of the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup squad. He began in Pragelato with two second places. After another mediocre finishes him reach the end of December in Engelberg two victories in a row. Then he came only two days later in the Four Hills Tournament 2007/ 08 back to the World Cup team and won in Oberstdorf at first World Cup points. Also in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Bischofshofen, he succeeded. After he but again only rear score points or even placements reached in connection behind it, he started from February again in the Continental Cup.
The Summer Continental Cup 2008 was initially mixed, before coming back to win a competition in Oberstdorf. In the following two jumping ski jumping Grand Prix reach him point gains. Then he got to the 2008/09 season again a place in the A-team in the World Cup. In all jumping to January 2009, he scored this point gains, some even with rankings in the top 15 on 16 January 2009 succeeded Janda in Zakopane again the leap into the top ten. Two weeks later, he won both competitions in the Continental on the Hochfirstschanze in Titisee -Neustadt.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec Janda his home jumped on the 33rd of the 19 normal and on the place of the large hill. In the team competition, he reached the fifth rank together with Lukáš Hlava, Ondrej Vaculik and Roman Koudelka. In preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games Janda graduated almost all jumping in summer - Continental Cup and the Grand Prix as well as all World Cup competitions at the beginning of the season 2009/10. He achieved consistently good results. Podiums were made , however.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he reached the 14th place in jumping on the normal hill. From the large hill he reached 17th place in the team competition the team reached number seven.
Renewed performance hit in 2010
The World Cup season 2010/11 started Janda with the 10th place in the team jumping from Kuusamo. Also in the following Single Cup Janda started again successfully and won World Cup points. After a surprising third place in qualifying in Engelberg, he had to admit defeat here but for the first time again after the first passage. As a result, he missed regularly the second round and could rarely jump on top rankings. Top 10 rankings reached no longer Janda. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo remained for Janda the Campsite 21 and 28 and with the team finished seventh and eight.
Also in the summer of 2011, Janda was not back in the top. Only in team competitions regularly could jump near the podium. Also in the World Cup season the now 33 -year-old had no great success and landed mostly in the midfield. In the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 he reached the 21th place and sixth place with the team in Vikersund. After he remained without success also with Summer Grand Prix 2012, he tried his luck again in the Continental and jumped surprisingly Klingenthal podium.
In the 2012/13 season, he jumped in parallel in the World Cup and the Continental Cup took place but in no series to its old form. Also in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, the former vice world champion with rear seats had to be satisfied in the individual competition. Even with the team came Janda about the tenth place in the Mixed Competition and seventh place in the team competition on the large hill not get out.