Jan Hudec

January Hudec ( born August 19, 1981 in Šumperk, Czechoslovakia ) is a Canadian alpine skier. He is a member of the Canadian National Ski Team since 1999 and specializes in the disciplines of downhill and Super -G.

Biography

Hudec was sen as the son of Abfahrers January Hudec. and his wife Vladi, a cross-country skier, born in Czechoslovakia. When he was a year old, leaving his family with him the land and settled in Germany. She spent four and a half years and moved to Canada in 1986, where his father found work as a ski instructor in Red Deer. In 1993 the family moved to Banff where both parents worked at the Mountain Ski Academy.

Already in Germany stood Hudec at the age of two years for the first time on skis and played with three years of his first race. Its alpine talent he further developed in Canada, and eventually became students of the Mountain Ski Academy. From 1996 on, he went regularly with the staged in North America FIS races at the start and the end of 1997 was his debut in the Nor- Am Cup. It took two years before the Nor- Am Cup, he was able to place in the top ten for the first time. In February 2002 he age of 20, his first win was at the departure of Le Massif.

Internationally, he first drew attention to himself in February 2001, when he was fourth in the downhill at the Junior World Championships in Verbier, Switzerland. Two years later he reached surprising seventh place at the World Championships in St. Moritz. In the same year a serious knee injury interrupted his career. In his comeback in November 2004 in World Cup downhill of Lake Louise he went with start number 68 ranked 7th Two weeks after this success forced a further injury over a one-year break from racing.

About the Nor- Am Cup Hudec qualified again for the Canadian World Cup team, but where he barely pushed forward to the front ranks. Qualification for the 2006 Winter Olympics, he missed. Only at the World Ski Championships 2007 in Åre, Sweden, he joined back to the world leaders. To kick off the World Cup, he finished seventh in super-G, five days later he repeated the silver medal in the downhill of the biggest success of his career.

On November 24, 2007, he celebrated the departure of Lake Louise his first victory in the World Cup. When training for the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen Hudec crashed on January 8, 2008 hard and suffered a cruciate ligament injury, which was the season 2007/ 08 ended prematurely for him. In the World Cup, the Canadian returned until January 2009, and in February took part in the World Championships in Val d'Isere. He crashed in the downhill and pulled a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, which was terminated prematurely for him also the season 2008/ 09.

The following 2009/10 season proved to be difficult. Only once drove Hudec in the World Cup in the top 15, at the Olympic Winter Games 2010, he came as no number 23 in the Super -G and ranked 25th in the downhill addition. For these reasons, he came increasingly in the Nor- Am Cup used where he scored several podium finishes. In the season 2010/11 he again reached a top- 10 finish in the World Cup downhill Kvitfjell. At the World Championships in 2011, he finished in 25th place in the downhill, super G, he left.

In the winter of 2011/12 Hudec approached gradually lead the world. After two top-10 results, he won on February 4, 2012, the departure from Chamonix and implemented so that after more than four years of his second World Cup victory. With a total of eight top-10 results, including two podium finishes, he came in the super-G World Cup and the sixth in the downhill World Cup in ninth place. Previously, he had never yet been in the downhill World Cup in the top ten and in the Super- G in the top 20.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, he won ex aequo with Bode Miller the bronze medal in the Super -G.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010: 23 Super -G, downhill 25
  • Sochi 2014: 21 Downhill, Super G 3

World Championships

  • St. Moritz 2003: 7 Super -G
  • Åre 2007: 2nd exit 7 Super -G
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 25 Departure
  • Schladming 2013: 9 Downhill, Super-G 12

Junior World Championships

  • Quebec 2000: 13 Super -G, downhill 18th, 18th slalom, giant slalom 24
  • Verbier 2001: 4th exit 15, the Super-G, Giant Slalom 31, 37 Slalom

World Cup

  • Season 2011/12: 6 Super - G World Cup, 9th downhill World Cup
  • 5 podiums, including two victories:

Nor- Am Cup

  • Season 2001/ 02: 4th overall, 1st exit rating, 5 Super G rating
  • Season 2005/ 06: 10th overall, fifth Super-G standings, 10 downhill rating
  • Season 2009/ 10: 7th overall, 4th exit rating, 4 Super -G standings
  • Season 2010/ 11: 7 Super -G standings
  • 13 podiums including 3 victories:

Other successes

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