Janica Kostelić

Janica Kostelic [ janitsa kɔstɛlitɕ ] ( born January 5, 1982 in Zagreb ) is a former Croatian alpine skier. She won the World Cup three times, five world titles and is equipped with four gold and two silver medals, the most successful alpine ski racer of Olympic history. In addition, they could as one of only six runners win World Cup victories in all disciplines. Ivica Kostelic Her brother is also a successful ski racer.

Career

Kostelic is the first Croatian athlete who ever won medals at the Winter Olympics. She is also currently the only skier who was able to win four gold medals at the Olympic Games. Your first win in a major international race she won in 1997 at the Trofeo Topolino. This was followed by physical setbacks. In the 2000 /01 season, she crashed in downhill training in St. Moritz heavy, so a continuation of her career had to be doubted. After it was over a large part of 2001 with a knee injury incapacitated, she celebrated her comeback in the 2001/ 02 season. Kostelic won at the Olympic Winter Games 2002, three gold medals in the giant slalom, slalom, and in combination, as well as a silver medal in the Super -G. At the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Turin she could continue her successful career with a gold medal in the combination, as well as another silver medal in the Super -G.

In the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, it was the combination for the first time world champion, a gold medal in the slalom followed a few days later. In early 2004 Kostelic had to withdraw temporarily from the sport due to a knee injury again, but increased during the following winter again in the World Cup. At the 2005 World Championships in Bormio, she was again World Champion in slalom and combination and also won the first World Cup downhill. The Giant Slalom and Super -G they had to leave out because of a bad cold, which makes them in every discipline in which it started, was world champion in Bormio.

Janica Kostelic won 30 World Cup races, including 20 slaloms, two giant slalom, a downhill, one super G, super- two combinations and four combination ratings. This makes it one next to Petra Kronberger, Pernilla Wiberg, Anja Parson, Lindsey Vonn and Tina Maze on the six ski racers to have won in all disciplines of the world cup. 2001, 2003 and 2006, she was the overall World Cup to decide for themselves, also the discipline World Cup in slalom and in the combination. In 2005, she was named after a dramatic final with only three points behind Anja Parson second in the overall World Cup.

Kostelic won all disciplines in one season in the 2005/06 season. Previously this was only Petra Kronberger succeeded. In addition, they won each for the third time overall World Cup and the World Cup slalom. Overall, it reached 1970 World Cup points, which has been exceeded with the ladies only of Lindsey Vonn in the season 2011/2012 and Tina Maze 2012/13.

Janica Kostelic is so far the only skier who could defend its Olympic gold medal in alpine combination. Since the Winter Games of Turin 2006, she is the most successful alpine skier at the Olympics.

Janica Kostelic enjoys great popularity in their homeland. Their successes are unique to the Croatian skiing. The TV station euro sport they chose to World Sportswoman of the Year 2005. Moreover, she was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for the best female athlete of the year 2006. Eight times she was elected to Croatia's Sportswoman of the Year 2001 awarded by the International Association of Ski Journalists with the Skieur d' Or and elected in 2002 by the Association of European sports journalists to Europe's Sportswoman of the Year.

Due to the success of Janica and Ivica Kostelic became the skiing in Croatia more attention. The Slalom World Cup in Zagreb, called the Snow Queen Trophy, was recorded at the same fix to the World Cup calendar of FIS.

Her father Ante Kostelic, who was her coach at the same time, was formerly a famous handball player. Her elder brother Ivica is also ski racer in 2003 slalom world champion and in the 2010/11 season for the first Croatian overall World Cup winner.

April 19, 2007 Janica Kostelic was at the age of only 25 years of her resignation from the well-known alpine skiing. Since then, she is often in the men's World Cup in support of her brother to find in the target area. As a trademark, she wears for the occasion and in the audience always ski goggles and colorful hats.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Nagano 1998: 8 combined, 24 giant slalom, downhill 25, 26, Super -G
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 1 Slalom, Giant Slalom 1, 1 combination, 2 Super -G
  • Turin 2006: 1 combination, 2 Super -G, Slalom 4

World Championships

  • Vail 1999: 7 combination, 22 Super G, slalom 23, 29 departure
  • St. Anton am Arlberg 2001: 5 Slalom, Super -G 13
  • St. Moritz 2003: 1 slalom, 1 combination, 13 Giant Slalom, Super -G 19
  • Bormio 2005: 1st exit, 1 slalom, 1 combination

Junior World Championships

  • Megève 1998: 2 combination, third Super -G, Downhill 6, 7, Giant Slalom, Slalom 12

World Cup

Janica Kostelic won the World Cup three times ( 2001, 2003, 2006). There are also seven wins in discipline Ratings ( Slalom: 2001, 2003, 2006, combination: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006).

  • Season 1998/99: 2nd Combined World Cup
  • Season 2000/ 01: first overall World Cup, 1 World Cup Slalom, 1st Combined World Cup
  • Season 2002/ 03: first overall World Cup, 1 World Cup Slalom, 1st Combined World Cup, 3rd giant slalom World Cup
  • Season 2004/ 05: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1st Combined World Cup, 2nd Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2005/ 06: 1 World Cup, 1 World Cup Slalom, 1st Combined World Cup, 3rd giant slalom World Cup

World Cup wins

Janica Kostelic Total (1x downhill, super-G 1x, 2x Giant Slalom, Slalom 20x, 4x combination, 2x super combined ) and a total of 55 podium finishes (30x First, 16x Second, Third 9x ) has won 30 World Cup races reached.

Other successes

  • 9 wins in FIS races (4x Slalom, Giant Slalom 2x, 2x Super -G, Downhill 1x )
  • 1 victory in the Nor- Am Cup (slalom in Winter Park 2002)

Awards

  • Croatia's Sportswoman of the Year 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006
  • Skieur d'Or 2001
  • European Athlete of the Year 2002
  • World Sportswoman of the Year ( Euro Sport) 2005
  • Laureus World Sports Awards - World Sportswoman of the Year 2006
Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined Winter Olympic Games Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup List of FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women's champions 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup Bad Kleinkirchheim Flachau Italy Hafjell Serre Chevalier France Park City (Utah) Aspen (Colorado) Ofterschwang Levi, Finland Finland Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year Ossi Reichert Marielle Goitschel Nancy Greene Kathy Kreiner Debbie Armstrong Vreni Schneider Deborah Compagnoni Julia Mancuso Viktoria Rebensburg Gretchen Fraser Anne Heggtveit Christine Goitschel Barbara Cochran Paoletta Magoni Hilde Gerg Mikaela Shiffrin Christl Cranz Anita Wachter Katja Seizinger Paula Wiesinger Evelyn Pinching Lisa Resch Hedy Schlunegger Madeleine Berthod Lucile Wheeler Heidi Biebl Christl Haas Olga Pall Gerry Sorensen Michela Figini Maria Walliser Kate Pace Picabo Street Hilary Lindh Michaela Dorfmeister Marion Rolland Gerda Paumgarten Dagmar Rom Trude Klecker Marianne Jahn Annie Famose Ingrid Lafforgue Erika Hess Mateja Svet Karin Buder Marlies Schild Fabienne Serrat Tamara McKinney Kathrin Zettel Anna Fenninger Gertrude Gabl Lise-Marie Morerod Marion Jones Cathy Freeman Kelly Holmes
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